About the role

Role Overview

Per Scholas is seeking a Data Engineer (Remote) to maintain and expand the company’s enterprise data infrastructure. You will execute the data strategy by ensuring data is ingested, transformed, and prepared for analytics in Tableau, specifically into a newly established Snowflake Data Lake.

Responsibilities

Data Pipeline Management

Set up and monitor automated ingestion connectors using Fivetran
Troubleshoot sync errors and coordinate with API providers to maintain continuous data flow
Write and optimize SQL transformations in Snowflake for reporting
(Nice to have) Experience with OpenFlow data ingestion

Data Lake Maintenance

Maintain Snowflake Data Lake structure (schemas, tables, views) with InterWorks
Run regular data quality checks to keep the “source of truth” accurate
Monitor Snowflake performance and help manage Snowflake credit consumption

Reporting & Visualization Support

Build and maintain Published Data Sources in Tableau for department use
Support Tableau teams by providing back-end data structures for dashboards
Translate business requests into technical requirements for new pipelines

Privacy & Compliance

Implement data masking and access control policies aligned with data privacy frameworks
Help maintain documentation for data lineage and the organizational data dictionary

Required Qualifications

Strong communication skills; able to communicate technical requirements to non-technical audiences
Clear understanding of data modeling and best practices
2–4 years professional experience in data engineering or a highly technical data analyst role
Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Snowflake hands-on experience managing tables and querying within Snowflake
Fivetran proficiency setting up and managing SaaS connectors
Experience writing and implementing transformations with dbt (Data Build Tool)
Tableau data modeling experience (calculating fields, joins, performance optimization)
Strong SQL skills (mandatory)

Nice-to-Haves

Experience with OpenFlow ingestion
Python scripting

Compensation

Target salary: $139,000 (range $129,000–$139,000), dependent on factors including geographic location.

About Per Scholas

Per Scholas is a mission-driven tech education organization that promotes mobility and opportunity by providing rigorous, no-cost training. Through partnerships with employer organizations and campuses/remote training across the U.S., it builds inclusive talent pipelines in areas like Cloud, Cybersecurity, Data Engineering, and more.

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