Fico
Sr Engineer, Data & Analytics Platform (Snowflake/dbt)
Work from Home, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$105k-$165kDetected 7 days ago
PythonCode ReviewGitSnowflakeTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsMachine LearningdbtData EngineeringData ScienceData VisualizationLLMsAgentic AIAgileResearchCollaborationProblem SolvingCritical ThinkingAdaptability
About the role
- FICO (NYSE: FICO) is a leading global analytics software company, helping businesses in 100+ countries make better decisions. Join our world-class team today and fulfill your career potential!
- The Sr Engineer (Snowflake/dbt) is a hands-on technical role where you'll design, build, and own the data platform that powers enterprise analytics and AI at FICO. This is a high-impact IC role on a small team building modern data products on Snowflake, from dbt pipelines and semantic models to AI-ready datasets that Cortex Agents query directly. You won't
Responsibilities
- The Sr Engineer (Snowflake/dbt) is a hands-on technical role where you'll design, build, and own the data platform that powers enterprise analytics and AI at FICO.
- You won't be taking tickets, you'll own platforms, make architectural decisions, and deliver work that reaches SVP and C-suite stakeholders.
- If you want to build the future of enterprise analytics on a modern stack (Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Cortex AI, GitHub CI/CD) in an AI-first culture, this role is for you.
- Perform hands-on analysis, technical design, data modeling, development, testing, and deployment of Snowflake-based data solutions.
- Design, build, and maintain dbt models, tests, and CI/CD pipelines for enterprise BI and analytics use cases. You'll own a production dbt project from day one.
- Own Snowflake platform responsibilities including data architecture, query optimization, RBAC design, cost management, and warehouse administration.
- Partner with multiple cross-department business stakeholders and internal IT colleagues to translate business questions into data products, reports, dashboards, semantic models, or agent-queryable datasets.
- Follow and support established processes for enhancements and change requests, as well as recommend and enforce coding standards.
- Support and mentor junior team members through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
- Experience building dashboards and analytics deliverables in at least one modern BI/visualization tool (Sigma, Power BI, Tableau, Streamlit, or similar). The specific tool matters less than analytical thinking and design sense.
Requirements
- Strong experience with dbt, building models, tests, macros, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Fivetran experience, including experience with ELT pipelines and data integration patterns.
- Ability to work independently as well as in a collaborative and dynamic team environment.
Nice to have
- Experience in setting up Role-based access, Row Level Access, and Column Masking policies.
- We're evaluating Snowflake-native BI options, adaptability matters more than a specific tool.
- Troubleshoot and ensure timely resolution of production data issues and platform defects.
- Identify and apply creative and innovative approaches to resolving data modeling, integration, and delivery challenges.
- Extensive experience with Snowflake, including data modeling, query optimization, warehouse architecture, and administration.
- This is your primary platform.
Skills
- Strong technical, critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Compensation
- $105,000 to $165,000 with this range reflecting differences in candidate knowledge, skills and experience.
Benefits
- You'll play a part in our commitment to help businesses use data to improve every choice they make, using advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, optimization, and much more.
Company info
- The opportunity to make an impact and develop professionally by leveraging your unique strengths and participating in valuable learning experiences.
- Highly competitive compensation, benefits and rewards programs that encourage you to bring your best every day and be recognized for doing so.
- An engaging, people-first work environment offering work/life balance, employee resource groups, and social events to promote interaction and camaraderie.
Visa & Work Authorization
- candidates without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status
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