Role: Azure /Snowflake engineer Duration: 6+ months Remote (Prefer candidates in and around Kansas City, MO) Designs, develops, implements, and supports technical solutions to meet the business needs. Leading Microsoft Solution Framework and may serve as Project Lead on a technical development team. Provides technical leadership in addressing complex systems solutions. Plans and coordinates processes used in data management including reporting, normalization, field mapping, marrying data with emerging technologies and tooling to support the overall Data Sharing Lifecycle. Works closely with the business staff and technical staff to analyze business problems, develop system solutions, and plan training requirements for application implementation. Provides input related to the technical performance evaluation for the Development staff. SKILLS Consults with users and Information Services departments, determines needs, and designs highly complex technology-based solutions. Suggests alternative approaches to meet user requirements. Develops and implements business solutions. May fill the roles of Product, Program or Project Lead on a development team. Acts as technical mentor for the Development and Business Analyst teams. Develops and maintains documentation of programs, user guides, policies and procedures. Implement technologies that supports the data strategy while developing and implement the Data Lake/Lakehouse architecture while providing guidance on best practices. Define and implement data pipelines that enable analytics and operational dashboards by designing and develop high quality batch and real time data pipelines at a senior level. Define and Implement Data Engineering standards and best practices that improve quality and efficiency and define/promote data engineer standards, best practices, and design patterns. Define and Implement Data Engineering workflows that improve quality and reduce the time to release new features along with designing and implement CI/CD workflows and pipelines. Ensure the team can support ongoing development and operations of new technology and mentor other members of the team in new technology and skills. Communicates project progress and status to the Manager and other development team members. Evaluates existing applications and systems. Recommends improvements or modifications utilizing current technologies and techniques. Evaluates employee performance and deliverables when managing a development team project May determine training needs, mentor and recommend selection, termination, promotion, and reassignment of subordinates to their manager. Must maintain knowledge of current and upcoming technologies keeping an eye on external competitive trends and best practices. Required to create business solutions using knowledge and application of multiple technologies and applications. Other duties as assigned Required Experience: Cloud Engineer with expertise in Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Snowflake to design, implement, and manage cloud-based data infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data integration, ETL processes, and cloud platform services, ensuring seamless data flow and optimal performance Requires a bachelor's degree in a Computer Information Services or a related field. Requires 6+ years' experience in project analysis, application development and/or application programming. Additional years of qualifying work experience may be considered in lieu of formal education. Requires knowledge of Microsoft Software (SSIS, MS Visual Studio and MS Server Products), MS Office Products, SQL server products, VB Scripting or related scripting languages. Requires effective communication and presentation skills and the ability to lead multi-disciplinary development teams. Ability to move into projects and immediately apply knowledge and add value. Has the ability to explain theories and reasoning behind decision making while seeing the big picture and risks Experience leading a team of more junior employees providing guidance and expertise to help them learn Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of industry-related professional experience and education