Avetta

Data Engineer

Avetta

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Houston • Texas • Utah • United States

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Tech Stack

AWSCloudTerraform

About the role

  • Own the DBT and Fivetran platforms, including configuration, environment setup, access controls, and ongoing maintenance.
  • Manage DBT Cloud environments, including job configuration, scheduling, orchestration, and dependency management.
  • Configure and manage Fivetran connectors, sync schedules, schemas, transformations, and performance tuning.
  • Build, operate, and optimize end-to-end ELT pipelines from source systems through Snowflake using Fivetran and DBT.
  • Design and maintain robust orchestration patterns for DBT runs, incremental models, and downstream dependencies.
  • Ensure pipelines are reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient.
  • Own and manage data platform infrastructure using Terraform to create Snowflake resources.
  • Implement, maintain and own CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for DBT deployments, testing, and environment promotion.
  • Implement and maintain data quality solutions (e.g., freshness checks, anomaly detection).
  • Build and manage monitoring and observability solutions for pipelines, jobs, and data SLAs.
  • Define and track platform and data reliability metrics, alerting on failures, delays, or data issues.
  • Own Snowflake administration, including warehouses, roles, permissions, resource monitoring, and cost optimization.
  • Tune performance for DBT models and queries through clustering, warehouse sizing, and query optimization.
  • Ensure security, governance, and best practices across Snowflake environments.

Requirements

  • 6 years of experience in data engineering or analytics engineering, with demonstrated senior-level ownership is preferred.
  • Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, or related field is preferred.
  • Certifications in DBT (Advanced), Snowflake (SnowPro), GitHub Actions Certification, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional is preferred.
  • Comfortable in supporting analytics-ready DBT models, including staging, intermediate, and mart layers.
  • Experience implementing data observability or data quality frameworks.
  • Familiarity with modern metrics layers or semantic models.
  • Experience supporting analytics and BI.
  • Strong documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
  • Aptitude for Agile delivery (e.g., JIRA) and backlog management in cross-functional data teams.
Benefits
  • health, dental and vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • PTO
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Hard Skills & Tools
DBTFivetranSnowflakeTerraformCI/CDGitHub Actionsdata quality solutionsELT pipelinesperformance tuningorchestration patterns
Soft Skills
documentationstakeholder communicationAgile deliverybacklog management
Certifications
DBT AdvancedSnowProGitHub Actions CertificationAWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional