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# Lead Data Engineer

- **Company:** Finoit Inc
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $175,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, ARM Architecture, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Pulumi, Large Language Models, Snowflake, Cloudformation, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/a00545ec-a8a6-4577-9b6f-965b33578436

## About the Role

* 10+ years of Data Engineering experience
 * Strong AWS experience (must-have)
 * Expert in Python & SQL
 * Snowflake (Cortex AI is a plus)
 * CI/CD, Docker, DevOps
 * Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Pulumi, Terraform)
 * Experience building AI/LLM-enabled data applications
 * Strong data architecture and pipeline design experience
 * Leadership/mentoring experience preferred



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