What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Engineer (AI + Modern Stack) position at Rockwoods Inc?
Title: Senior Data Engineer (AI Modern Stack)
Location: Dallas, Texas, United States
Type: Contract / Full-time
In-Person Interview.
Rockwoods is specifically looking for candidates with 6–10 years of hands-on experience building production-grade data pipelines. Profiles with only academic or tool-based exposure will not be considered.
Role Overview
Rockwoods is looking for a strong Data Engineer who has built reliable, production-grade data pipelines and has exposure to AI-driven data use cases.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and scale data pipelines and workflows in production
- Develop dbt-based transformation layers
- Optimize Snowflake performance and cost
- Implement API and event-driven ingestion pipelines
- Ensure data quality, validation, and reliability
- Support AI/ML data workflows and integrations
What We’re Looking For
- 6–10 years of hands-on data engineering experience
- Strong experience with Python, dbt, Snowflake
- Proven track record building production-grade pipelines
- Experience with Airflow or similar orchestration tools
- Solid understanding of data modeling and transformation
- Experience working with large-scale data systems
- Exposure to AI/ML pipelines is a plus
Why Rockwoods
- Strong pipeline of modern data platform work
- Direct exposure to real client systems
- Opportunity to grow into architecture roles
- Execution-focused culture less process, more impact