Lead Data/BI Developer

Title: Lead Data/BI Developer
Location: Sacramento, CA (Hybrid )
Duration/Type: Contract

Mandatory Qualifications:

• At least ten (10) years of experience in data/BI engineering or analytics.
• At least five (5) years of experience in leading a team (at least 3 members) to implement enterprise-level BI and/or large data warehouse solutions.
• At least five (5) years of experience working with AI/ML or GenAI technologies.
• At least two (2) proven deliveries of production-grade BI or data products (dashboards, data models, APIs).
• At least two (2) years of experience with ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehousing platforms such as Snowflake, Amazon Redshift, and orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt, etc.).
• At least two (2) years of experience using OpenAI APIs or similar LLM platforms, building natural language to SQL/query systems, designing prompt strategies for business insights and analytics, and prompt engineering to guide the platform''s system behavior.
• At least two (2) years of experience in SQL (advanced joins, window functions, performance tuning), data modeling (star/snowflake schemas, semantic layers), and hands-on experience with at least one major BI tool such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker.
• At least two (2) years of experience leading a team of analysts and developers, as well as collaborating with stakeholders, to discover, document, and implement requirements and stakeholder requests for data warehouse or business intelligence projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Holding technical certifications in the areas of:

• AWS certifications

• Snowflake certifications

• BI certifications (Power BI, Tableau)

• AI/ML or GenAI-related coursework or credentials