Minnetonka, MN

Salary
Posted
Jul 16, 2026
Location
Minnetonka, MN
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A senior technical role focused on designing and maintaining a data platform built around CDC-based ETL pipelines using tools such as Debezium, Kafka, Flink, and DeltaStream, with Snowflake as the core warehouse. The position involves owning medallion-architecture data modeling, infrastructure-as-code, and a business intelligence reporting layer, while also setting technical direction and mentoring other engineers. Suited to an experienced data platform engineer comfortable balancing hands-on implementation with architectural leadership.

Senior level · 7+ years · Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI · Full-time

Must have (6)
KafkaFlinkDebezium, Maxwell or Aws DmsSnowflakePulumi, Terraform or Aws CdkSQL
Nice to have (4)
DeltaStream, Confluent Cloud or MaterializeSigma, Looker, Tableau or Power BIPostgreSQLAWS

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 15 people in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 6–25

Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.

What won't set you apart
SQL90%Snowflake42%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $136,957 (middle half $115,209–$161,832).

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (6)

The role sits at the intersection of data pipeline/streaming engineering (15-1243 Database Architects) and general software/platform engineering (15-1252 Software Developers); it was classified as 15-1243 because the primary deliverables are data architecture, ETL pipelines, Snowflake schema design, and medallion-layer modeling, but the Pulumi infrastructure-as-code ownership and streaming platform work give 15-1252 a credible claim.

Pulumi is the named IaC tool in the required section; Terraform and AWS CDK are listed as explicit equivalents in the same requirement and are captured as alternatives.

Debezium is the named CDC tool in the required section; 'or equivalent' is stated, so well-known substitutes are listed as alternatives.

DeltaStream, Sigma, PostgreSQL CDC, financial services domain experience, and AWS service familiarity all appear under the 'Preferred Experience' heading and are marked accordingly.

No compensation range is stated in the posting.

The role is explicitly onsite in Minnetonka, MN (Minneapolis–St. Paul metro); remote is not offered.

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