What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Engineer position at INUIX Consulting?
Responsibilities:
Data Pipeline Architecture & Development
• Design and implement scalable, resilient data pipelines using Snowflake features including Snowpipe, Tasks, Streams, Dynamic Tables, and advanced SQL.
• Build and maintain DBT models with strong testing, documentation, and lineage.
• Develop Python ingestion frameworks for files and APIs, including schema validation, retries, and metadata capture.
• Engineer ingestion for CSV, fixed width multi record layouts, JSON, XML, Excel, and semi structured formats.
• Design Mainframe VSAM data ingestion pattern for complex EBCDIC data formats.
Schema Drift & Schema Evolution
• Detect, analyze, and manage schema drift across file, API, and replicated database sources.
• Implement metadata driven schema evolution strategies to ensure downstream stability.
• Coordinate schema changes through controlled CI/CD workflows.
Database Replication & CDC
• Configure and manage Qlik Replicate tasks for CDC and full load replication from Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2.
• Ensure idempotent, auditable, and recoverable replication pipelines with strong monitoring and reconciliation.
Data Governance, Security & Tokenization
• Implement and maintain Snowflake Data Masking policies, including dynamic masking, conditional masking, and role based masking rules.
• Apply Protegrity tokenization for sensitive data fields across ingestion and transformation layers.
• Enforce RBAC, data access controls, and governance standards across Snowflake and supporting systems.
Orchestration & Automation
• Build and schedule workflows using Astronomer Airflow, ensuring dependency management, retries, SLAs, and observability.
• Integrate pipelines with enterprise DevOps processes using GitLab and Azure DevOps for CI/CD automation.
Version Control & Code Quality
• Manage code repositories using GitLab, including branching strategies, merge requests, code reviews, and approvals.
Monitoring, Alerting & Performance Optimization
• Implement monitoring and alerting for ingestion pipelines, schema drift, replication, and transformation workloads.
• Optimize Snowflake compute, storage, and query performance; scale ingestion pipelines to meet evolving data volume and latency requirements.
Required Skills & Experience:
• 8 years of hands on data engineering experience.
• Deep expertise with Snowflake, including data masking policies, RBAC, performance tuning, and advanced SQL.
• Strong experience with Qlik Replicate for CDC and database replication.
• Excellent proficiency in Python and Pyspark for ingestion frameworks and automation.
• Hands on experience with DBT Cloud and Astronomer Airflow.
• Experience with schema drift detection and schema evolution patterns.
• Experience with GitLab and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Protegrity or similar data protection platforms.
Salary : $110,000 - $130,000