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# Data Engineer - Snowflake

- **Company:** Contech Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** Newark, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $156,000 - $187,200
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Cluster Analysis, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Security, Data Structures, Data Systems, Digital Architecture, Metadata, Role-Based Access Control, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Sql Optimization, Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources, Snowflake, Caching, Star Schema
- **Published:** November 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/data-engineer-snowflake-newark-nj--c19d8693-1d39-4417-93f9-b0774011cbbb

## About the Role

Snowflake Schema, Ecosystems, Snowflake Schema, Healthcare, Data Analysis, Customer/Client Research, Metadata, Data Structures, Data Modeling, Data Quality, * Senior-level experience with Snowflake (3-6+ years minimum).

 * Deep SQL optimization + warehouse tuning expertise.
 * Experience implementing Snowpark, Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, or Dynamic Tables.
 * Strong understanding of micro-partitioning and performance patterns.
 * Experience with ETL orchestration tools (Airflow, ADF, DBT preferred).
 * Healthcare data experience required.
 * Cloud engineering experience (AWS or Azure).

Senior Snowflake Data Engineer Bonus Skills

 * Experience implementing RBAC & data security frameworks.
 * Hands-on data modeling experience (dimensional + relational).
 * Exposure to healthcare standards (FHIR is a plus, but not required).

#Contech

## Description

(Hybrid Newark, NJ - 2 days/month onsite, with flexibility to come in as needed)
We're hiring a Senior Snowflake Data Engineer to architect, design, and optimize Snowflake-based data solutions powering analytics, reporting, and clinical insights across our client's healthcare ecosystem.
This isn't a button-click Snowflake admin role - this is true engineering, building models, pipelines, metadata patterns, performance frameworks, and scalable architectures.
Senior Snowflake Data Engineer Responsibilities

 * Design and develop ELT/ELT workflows for Snowflake data environments.
 * Build advanced Snowflake features: Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, Time Travel, Clustering, RBAC.
 * Model and optimize data structures for analytics and downstream consumers.
 * Implement data quality checks, lineage, validation frameworks, and governance.
 * Tune SQL, warehouse sizing, caching, and micro-partition performance.
 * Collaborate with analytics, clinical, product, and architecture teams.
 * Troubleshoot ingestion, transformations, and warehouse performance issues.
 * Document architecture, data flows, patterns, and best practices.
 * Mentor junior Snowflake engineers as the team scales.