Data Engineer

As a Data Engineer on our BI team, you’ll be a key player in Motive’s growth, delivering the data infrastructure for the AI era. You’ll act as the essential link between complex data and key business domains, delivering the high-quality datasets and semantic models that drive global strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to implement cutting-edge tooling, leverage AI to enhance your workflow, and master a modern data stack in a fast-evolving environment.

This is the perfect role for a "jack of all trades" data practitioner. You’ll design data models, build robust pipelines, manage DevOps and automated systems, and implement AI-driven data tooling. You’ll even get your hands dirty building dashboards and performing deep-dive analysis. If you love working full-stack and owning the entire data lifecycle, you’ll love this role.

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate & Strategize: Partner closely with business stakeholders to understand their challenges and design end-to-end architecture that solves complex business problems.
• Build & Maintain Data Models: Design, develop, and own robust, efficient, and scalable data models in Snowflake and Iceberg using dbt and advanced SQL.
• Orchestrate & Automate: Build and manage reliable data pipelines and CI/CD workflows using tools like Airflow, Python, and Terraform to ensure data is fresh, trustworthy, and infrastructure is version-controlled.
• Champion Data Quality: Implement rigorous testing, documentation, and data governance practices to maintain a single source of truth.
• Enable Analytics & Workflows: Act as the Product Owner and Tech Lead for your data domains, taking responsibility for the end-to-end data product delivery– from raw ingestion to data models enabling analytics and data apps in tools like Tableau and Retool.
• Innovate with AI: Help us build our next-generation data infrastructure by integrating AI capabilities (like Snowflake Cortex AI) to democratize analytics and empower the business.
• Architect Observability: Implement monitoring and alerting frameworks (e.g., dbt packages or Monte Carlo monitors) to proactively catch "silent" data failures before stakeholders do.

What We're Looking For:

• 6+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, or a similar role.
• Deep expertise in SQL and developing complex data models for analytical purposes (e.g., dimensional modeling).
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Data Warehousing: High proficiency in Snowflake (preferred) and experience with Open Table Formats like Iceberg.
  • Data Transformation: dbt
  • Orchestration & ETL: Airflow, Fivetran, Airbyte
  • Cloud Platform: AWS
  • Programming/Ingestion: Python
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
  • AI-Augmented Development: Proficiency using AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, or Claude) to accelerate development and automate routine tasks.
• A strong analytical mindset with a proven ability to solve ambiguous business problems with data.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working cross-functionally.
• Self-starter with the ability to self-project manage work
• A user focus with the ability to understand how a data consumer will use the data products you build

Bonus Points (Nice-to-Haves)

• Experience building semantic models for natural language querying
• Direct experience with advanced Snowflake features (e.g., Snowpark, Cortex AI).
• Experience building visualizations and dashboards in tools like Tableau, Retool, or Thoughtspot.