Senior Data Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build and manage end-to-end data pipelines, including ingestion from APIs/files, transformations, and schema evolution.
• Design semantic models and hybrid search capabilities to enable AI services to reason over research data.
• Own dimensional data modeling, including star schemas, bridge tables, and performance optimization.
• Enforce data governance through access controls, quality monitoring, and compliance with GDPR/CCPA.
• Manage cloud infrastructure, monitoring, SLAs, cost optimization, and CI/CD processes.
• Partner with delivery teams to provide client views, multi-cloud exports, and data for dashboards and AI tools.

Requirements

• 5+ years of data engineering experience with production-scale cloud data warehouses.
• Strong proficiency in a modern cloud data warehouse such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks.
• Advanced SQL skills.
• Experience building event-driven pipelines on major cloud providers (e.g., AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions, or Azure Functions).
• Expertise in dimensional data modeling (star schema, slowly changing dimensions, fact tables).
• Proficiency in Python for pipeline orchestration, data transformation, and cloud SDK usage.
• Experience with REST API integration.
• Comfort with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or Pulumi.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of how data is structured and served to AI/ML systems.
• Familiarity with dbt or similar transformation frameworks.
• Experience with data quality frameworks such as Great Expectations or Monte Carlo.

Benefits

• 100% remote work environment.
• Full-time position with a flexible schedule.
• Attractive USD compensation.
• Paid vacation and holidays.

About the Company

Nitka Technologies develops software for customers in the US and Europe, bringing together a global team of professionals across Eastern Europe, North America, and South America. We specialize in building intelligent solutions that combine research, marketing, and engineering to drive growth for our clients.