Magna Legal Services

Data Engineer

Posted 3 Days Ago

Hiring Remotely in USA

Remote

130K-150K Annually

Senior level

Information Technology • Legal Tech • Consulting

The Role

The Data Engineer will design and maintain data models on Snowflake, enforce data standards, manage security, optimize SQL, implement CI/CD, and mentor junior staff.

Summary Generated by Built In

About Us:

Magna Legal Services provides end-to-end legal support services to law firms, corporations, and governmental agencies throughout the nation. As an end-to-end service provider, we can provide strategic advantages to our clients by offering legal support services at every stage of their legal proceedings.

Job Description:

Job Title: Data Engineer

Position Summary:

Magna Legal Services is seeking a Data Engineer to lead the design, security, and scalability of our Snowflake data platform. This role will play a critical part in building enterprise-grade data models, enforcing best practices, and enabling analytics and AI use cases through a secure, high-performing data foundation. You'll help shape a secure, scalable data platform that powers analytics, reporting, and AI across the organization — while setting standards that allow the data team to grow sustainably.

Key Responsibilities:

Design, own, and maintain core enterprise data models.
Provide architectural leadership by defining and enforcing data engineering standards and best practices.
Implement and manage Snowflake security and RBAC, ensuring secure, scalable access across analytics and AI use cases.
Build and maintain reusable dbt macros, seeds, and utility functions.
Leverage advanced dbt features including incremental models, snapshots, and exposures.
Optimize and refactor complex SQL for performance, reliability, and maintainability.
Implement and maintain CI/CD workflows (Git branching, automated testing, code reviews).
Monitor Snowflake warehouse and query performance.
Drive Snowflake cost optimization initiatives (warehouse sizing, caching, workload management).
Mentor and support junior data engineering resources.
Partner with leadership to co-own Snowflake COE and data governance practices.

Qualifications:

5+ years of experience in data engineering or analytics engineering.
Deep hands-on experience with Snowflake, including performance tuning and RBAC.
Strong production experience with dbt.
Advanced SQL skills with a focus on optimization.
Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for data teams.
Ability to design scalable, reusable data architectures.
Strong communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally.

Nice to have:

Experience with enterprise data governance or COE models.
Exposure to AI/ML data enablement.
Experience managing cloud data platform costs.

Compensation: USD $130,000 - $150,000 per year.

An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, travel requirements, revenue-based metrics, any contractual agreements, and business or organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of the total compensation package for employees.

Magna Legal Services provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.