Senior Data Engineer

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About MISUMI Americas

MISUMI Americas, a division of MISUMI Group, is a leading provider of standard, configurable, and custom manufacturing solutions. By integrating a vast catalog of components with a world-class digital manufacturing platform, MISUMI Americas empowers engineers and procurement teams to accelerate innovation across the entire product lifecycle. With operations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago, the company serves as a vital partner for the most innovative companies in the Americas.

Senior Data Engineer - Schaumburg

MISUMI | Data Platform

Own the data platform that MISUMI runs on

MISUMI is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to be the go-to owner of our Snowflake warehouse, dbt project, and data pipelines. You will be the primary data engineer, with real ownership and real influence: the models you build and the pipelines you run are what Operations, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Product, and Customer Support rely on to make decisions every day.

You will work hands-on with a modern stack (Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Git/GitHub) and with AI coding agents in your daily engineering work. You will also have the autonomy to take requests from intake to production, propose what we should build next, and shape safe team practices for agentic development. If you want a role where your judgment directly determines whether the business can trust its data, this is it.

Impact in this Role

The Senior Data Engineer is the go-to owner of MISUMI’s Snowflake warehouse, dbt project, and data pipelines. This person turns data from business and production systems into trusted, analytics-ready models that Operations, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Product, and Customer Support use to make decisions. Because this is the primary data engineering role, the accuracy, security, and reliability of the data platform, including regulated data such as CUI, depend on this person’s judgment and execution.

Essential Functions

• Administer Snowflake: manage users, roles, grants, warehouses, resource monitors and security policies, and keep the environment secure, fast and cost-efficient.
• Design, build, and own dbt models (staging, intermediate, marts, and the semantic layer) that turn replicated source data into trusted, analytics-ready tables with tests and documentation.
• Build, operate, and monitor ELT pipelines from production and business systems into Snowflake, using Fivetran and related tools. Resolve connector failures, schema changes, backfills, and data-quality issues.
• Act as the team’s primary technical resource for modeling and pipeline work. Take requests from intake to production independently, including scoping, estimating, and reporting status.
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements and data models, and bridge the gap between business teams and technology. Ask clarifying questions, agree on metric definitions and acceptance criteria with stakeholders, and turn them into specif

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ion judgment: verify before changing shared systems, plan for failure, and know how to roll back.

• Use AI tools with discipline: give clear context and constraints, review and test every AI-generated change, and stay accountable for the result.
• Solve hard problems methodically: break an unclear problem into testable hypotheses, gather evidence from logs, lineage, and query history, confirm the cause before changing anything, and verify the fix worked.
• Communicate clearly in writing and in person, giving business context to engineers and technical context to non-engineers.

Physical Demands

The employee routinely sits, talks, hears, and uses hands and fingers to operate a keyboard. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Travel

Ability to travel 5% annually in the US for team meetings, offsites, and conferences.

Ready to own the platform?

If you have run production Snowflake, dbt, and ELT at scale, you work daily with agentic coding tools, and you want to be the person the business trusts with its data, we would like to hear from you. Apply today.

Salary range

$167,000 - $202,300 base salary per year, depending on experience

Benefits include, but are not limited to

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Generous PTO and leave programs

We’re actively seeking teammates who

• Bring diverse perspectives and experience to our culture and company.
• Excel at being part of a strong, empathetic team.
• Thrive in an environment emphasizing respect, honesty, collaboration, and growth.
• Have an ‘always learning’ mindset that celebrates learning, not just wins.
• Help us continue to build a world-class organization that values the contributions of all of our teammates

We encourage applications from members of underrepresented groups, including but not limited to women, members of the LGBTQ community, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans.