About us
Itero Group is a Women-Owned Small Business focused on simplifying complex transformations. We empower clients in the private and government sectors to become more optimized, digitally enabled, and data-driven organizations through our comprehensive business consulting and innovative delivery solutions.
Itero Group's dedicated team members are experienced thought leaders, tenacious workers, and creative thinkers. We hire people who are passionate about being catalysts for change - in our company, for our clients, throughout our career- and we empower people to express their ideas, create better practices, innovate better products, and become better professionals.
We have been named a Great Place to Work for six years, and offer a competitive salary and benefits package.
Itero Group is seeking an experienced Senior Snowflake Data Engineer to support enterprise data modernization initiatives for leading Financial Services clients. This individual will design, develop, and optimize cloud-based data platforms using Snowflake while partnering with business stakeholders, architects, and analytics teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing data solutions.
The ideal candidate has deep experience building enterprise data pipelines, implementing cloud data warehouses, and supporting regulatory and financial reporting initiatives within banking, insurance, capital markets, or asset management organizations.
Key Responsibilities- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Snowflake.
- Build and optimize ELT/ETL processes to ingest data from multiple enterprise systems.
- Develop dimensional data models, data marts, and curated analytical datasets.
- Optimize Snowflake performance through clustering, partitioning, workload management, and cost optimization.
- Implement data quality, lineage, governance, and security best practices.
- Develop solutions utilizing Snowpark, stored procedures, streams, tasks, and dynamic tables where appropriate.
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand reporting and analytical requirements.
- Build reusable data frameworks supporting Finance, Risk, Compliance, Treasury, and Regulatory Reporting.
- Develop automated orchestration using Airflow, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, or similar technologies.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and code reviews.
- Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices.
- 7+ years of Data Engineering experience.
- 4+ years of hands-on Snowflake development.
- Strong SQL expertise including query optimization.
- Strong Python development experience.
- Experience building enterprise ELT/ETL pipelines.
- Experience with cloud platforms:
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP (preferred)
- Experience with:
- dbt
- Airflow
- Git
- CI/CD
- Terraform (preferred)
- Experience working with structured and semi-structured data.
- Knowledge of data modeling (Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, Kimball).
- Experience with REST APIs and data integration.
- Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
Financial Services Experience Required
Candidates should possess experience supporting one or more of the following:
- Banking
- Commercial Banking
- Investment Banking
- Capital Markets
- Asset Management
- Wealth Management
- Insurance
- FinTech
Consulting Experience
- Experience working in consulting environments such as PwC, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, Accenture, Slalom, or similar.
- Ability to gather requirements directly from business stakeholders.
- Experience leading client workshops and solution design sessions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong presentation and stakeholder management abilities.
If you are looking for a role where you will lead with integrity, create and innovate, inspire excellence, be a respected member of the team, drive results, and have fun, we look forward to connecting with you!
Benefits at Itero Group
At Itero Group, we’re proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance:
- Health & Wellness: Medical (BC-BS), dental, and vision plans to suit your needs.
- Paid Time Off: Generous PTO, paid holidays, and increasing PTO based on years of service.
- Retirement Savings: 401(k) plan with company match and auto-enrollment.
- Company-Paid Coverage: Short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, and AD&D insurance.
- Additional Options: Voluntary benefits including pet insurance and student loan assistance up to $1,000 annually.
- Perks: FSAs, HSAs, wellness programs, and more to enhance your work-life balance.
Join us and enjoy a benefits package designed with you in mind!
Itero Group is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, physical or mental disability, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, veteran status or political affiliation.
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