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Senior Data Engineer

Prudent Technologies and ConsultingGlendale, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 14 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
On Site
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Role: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Glendale, CA (4 Days Work From Office)

Full Time

Key Responsibilities:

  • Create and maintain Data Platform pipelines
  • Create Conceptual, Logical, and Physical data models
  • Design table structures using DBT and define data pipelines to build performant, reliable, and scalable data solutions in a fast-growing data ecosystem.
  • Collaborate with other data engineers, data scientists, and cross-functional teams.
  • Fluency with data engineering concepts and platforms (AWS: S3, Lambda, SNS, SQS...; Iceberg),
  • data platforms (Snowflake), governance (data contracts), transformation and orchestration (dbt, Airflow).
  • Be an active participant and advocate of agile/scrum ceremonies to collaborate and improve processes for our team
  • Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineers to drive the success of the Core Data Platform
  • Document standards and best practices for pipeline configurations, naming conventions, etc.
  • Engage with and understand our customers, forming relationships that allow us to understand and prioritize both innovative new offerings and incremental technology improvements
  • Maintain detailed documentation of your work and changes to support data quality and data governance requirements

Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of data engineering experience developing data pipelines
  • Strong understanding of data modeling principles, including Dimensional modeling and data normalization principles
  • Proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Python)
  • Expert SQL skills and ability to create queries to analyze complex datasets
  • Hands-on production experience with data pipeline orchestration systems such as Airflow for creating and maintaining data pipelines
  • Experience with Snowflake
  • Strong algorithmic problem-solving expertise
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Advance understanding of OLTP vs OLAP environments
  • Willingness and ability to learn and pick up new skill sets
  • Self-starting problem solver with an eye for detail and excellent analytical and communication skills
  • Familiar with Scrum and Agile methodologies
  • Bachelor s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent industry experience

Skills

SQL
AWS
Scrum
Snowflake
Agile
Airflow
Data Pipeline
Python
dbt

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