Lead Software Engineer, Data

The posting, as Bold Orange Company, LLC wrote it

Hires local to the Twin Cities Metro-Area can anticipate an in-office component of 1-2 days a week, employed with Bold Orange. If this position lists, “Open to Remote”, hires outside of the metro area can anticipate travel to our Minneapolis, MN office on an as-requested basis. We value human connection and some travel is anticipated.

About Bold Orange

Bold Orange (BOCO) is a customer experience company. We believe authentic human connections are the single most important driver of business and societal progress. We exist to create these connections across the customer lifecycle, from acquisition to engagement to retention. Our culture is one of curiosity, collaboration, proactivity and always bringing the outside, future focused perspective to our clients.

Lead-level, hands-on data engineering role centered on Snowflake. You will own the technical solution for your accounts end to end, from discovery and requirements through architecture, build, and production, and you will be the person clients and internal teams look to for the answer on how the data platform should work.
Leads at Bold Orange take on the most critical and complex engineering work and are expected to be prolific contributors to the team's code, while also setting technical direction, establishing engineering practices, and multiplying the effectiveness of the engineers around them.
Snowflake powers a SaaS platform we operate and a growing share of our client data work, and it is where we are investing to get stronger, so deep and demonstrable Snowflake expertise is central to this role. We also work with Redshift and Databricks, both internally and on behalf of clients.
You will work alongside solution architects, other data engineers, project managers, and client teams across multiple concurrent engagements.
Position Duties & Responsibilities:
Own the technical solution and provide overall technical oversight for your accounts, from discovery through production and ongoing support
Lead discovery, intake requirements directly from clients, and present solutions and trade-offs to client stakeholders yourself
Lead the architecture and own the system design for your engagements, including the data models, warehouses, and ELT/ETL pipelines that result
Evaluate and estimate work confidently and accurately at the system and project level, not only at the component level
Architect, build, and maintain data models, warehouses, and pipelines in Snowflake, optimizing for performance, scalability, and cost
Take on the most critical, complex, and time-sensitive engineering work, and remain a prolific contributor to the team's code
Develop and tune complex SQL, stored procedures, and transformations in Snowflake and supporting relational databases such as SQL Server and PostgreSQL
Apply native Snowflake capabilities where they earn their place, including Snowpipe, Streams and Tasks, dynamic tables, and external and stage integrations for near-real-time
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xperience leading discovery and shaping a technical solution directly with clients or business stakeholders, not only delivering against a specification handed to you
Ability to estimate and plan work accurately at the system and project level
Working knowledge of Snowflake performance tuning, cost optimization, and security and governance, including warehouse sizing, clustering, and RBAC
Strong proficiency in Python and C# for back-end development, with recent hands-on work in both
Hands-on experience with relational SQL databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL
Proven experience designing, building, and consuming REST APIs
Practical DevOps experience: CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and server configuration
Comfort in both Windows Server and Linux environments
A track record of establishing engineering standards or practices that other engineers followed
Ability to manage and context-switch across multiple concurrent client projects
Strong written and verbal communication, including technical communication with non-technical stakeholders and the confidence to lead a design conversation with a client
Preferred Qualifications:
Agency, consultancy, or client-services experience, with multiple concurrent clients and client-facing scoping and delivery
Active SnowPro certification, Core strongly preferred, Advanced (Data Engineer or Architect) a significant plus. We support and pay for certification, so a strong engineer without it is not ruled out
Working fluency with AI-assisted development tools, applied with engineering judgment about where they help and where they do not
Experience with recent Snowflake platform capabilities, including CoCo, CoWork, Horizon Catalog, and Horizon Context (Semantic Views)
Redshift and/or Databricks experience, both of which are in use at Bold Orange
Azure DevOps, Azure App Services, or other Azure services
HubSpot CMS, HubSpot APIs, or marketing automation platforms
IIS, .NET deployment, or Windows service management