Sr AI Data Engineer (Cloud)

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Sr AI Data Engineer (Cloud)Location: Chicago, IL (Onsite) | ContractOverviewOur client is seeking a Sr AI Data Engineer to join its Data Engineering team, building ingestion and transformation pipelines and GenAI-enabled workflows on Snowflake and AWS, and packaging them as Snowflake Native Apps.ResponsibilitiesDesign and build scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines in Snowflake and AWSDevelop GenAI-enabled workflows using Snowflake Cortex AI or an equivalent production LLM platform, including structured extraction from free text at scalePackage solutions as Snowflake Native Apps using the Native App Framework and SnowparkImplement ML/LLM observability, evaluation design, and drift monitoringDefine and track data quality and model quality KPIsBuild CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code for pipeline deploymentSupport production rollout, documentation, and handoff to operations teamsRequired Qualifications8+ years of experience, including 5+ years in data engineering and 2+ years of hands-on GenAI application developmentAdvanced Snowflake: SQL, Tasks/Streams, stored procedures, performance tuningSnowflake Cortex AI or equivalent production LLM platformSnowflake Native App Framework / SnowparkAWS: S3, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, DynamoDB, EC2, CloudFormation, KinesisProduction-grade PythonCI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation)ML/LLM observability (Arize or comparable), evaluation design, and drift monitoringPreferred QualificationsHospitality, customer profile, or personalization domain experienceHuman-in-the-loop and taxonomy-driven classificationCustomer data privacy and complianceSnowflake governance (RBAC, masking, row access policies)Prompt regression testing, Snowpark Container Services, Windows task automation scriptingAWS and/or Snowflake certificationsPay rate: $80/hr. This is a 6-month contract position, onsite in Chicago, IL. Candidates must be Green Card, H1B, H4 EAD, L2 EAD, OPT, TN, US Citizen, or E3.