Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake)

Location: Fully remote for candidates located in Latin America and Eastern Europe; work hours must be 9 am–6 pm US East Coast time.

Company

hirify.global is a global technology services company providing cloud architecture, infrastructure, migration, optimization, and continuous delivery solutions for enterprises and startups. This role supports a US-based EdTech client focused on financial literacy, life skills, and regulatory compliance.

What you will do

• Own complex technical projects with minimal direction.
• Design scalable, maintainable, and well-documented data pipelines and models.
• Make architectural decisions and improve existing data engineering processes.
• Identify automation opportunities, technical risks, performance improvements, and modernization initiatives.
• Drive technical initiatives from design through production and mentor engineers through code reviews and technical guidance.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of relevant experience, ideally 7 or more.
• Robust experience with Snowflake, including performance tuning and modern Snowflake capabilities.
• Experience building and maintaining ELT pipelines with dbt.
• Experience orchestrating data workflows with Apache Airflow or a similar orchestration platform.
• Experience creating reports and data visualizations with Sigma, Tableau, or Power BI.
• Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, data warehousing, and analytics engineering best practices.
• Must be located in Latin America or Eastern Europe and able to work US East Coast office hours.

Nice to have

• Experience designing and preparing scalable, high-quality data foundations for AI/ML applications using Snowflake Cortex AI.

Culture & Benefits

• Totally remote, full-time position with a 40-hour work week.
• Working schedule is 8 hours per day during US Eastern time office hours.
• Independent contractor agreement with an initial four-month duration.
• The contract may extend to a full year or longer based on performance and continued need.
• Payment is made in USD, either biweekly or monthly.

Hiring process

• Recruiter interview lasting 30 minutes.
• Technical interview lasting 30 minutes.
• Three client interviews; durations are still being determined.