Senior Data Modeler

Job#: 3030645

Job Description:
Senior Data Modeler

Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Employment Type: Permanent

Role Overview

We are seeking a skilled Senior Data Modeler to join our Data Engineering & Architecture team. This role is central to designing, developing, and maintaining logical and physical data models. You will also architect, build, and optimize the data pipelines and platforms that power our enterprise data warehouse, analytics ecosystem, and business intelligence solutions, ensuring data assets are structured and delivered in a scalable and high-performance manner.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize conceptual, logical, and physical data models for enterprise reporting, analytics, and data science use cases.
• Partner with data engineers, business analysts, and stakeholders to translate business needs into robust data structures.
• Define and enforce data modeling standards, best practices, and naming conventions.
• Architect, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using modern data engineering frameworks and cloud technologies.
• Lead the design and development of distributed data processing workflows using Databricks, PySpark, Azure SQL, and Azure Synapse.
• Develop data ingestion frameworks from various sources including FHIR, APIs, files, and databases.
• Oversee data lake and data warehouse architecture, including partitioning, schema evolution, and performance tuning.
• Mentor junior engineers and modelers, influencing engineering patterns and architectural direction.

Required Qualifications

Education: A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or equivalent experience is required.

Experience: 7-10 years of experience in data modeling, data engineering, dimensional modeling, or data architecture roles is necessary.

Technical Skills:

• Advanced SQL expertise and experience designing for cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Synapse, Azure SQL, Redshift, or BigQuery.
• Proficiency with Python, PySpark, or Scala.
• Experience building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using tools like Azure Data Factory, Databricks, or SSIS.
• Hands-on experience with Azure data services including Data Factory, Azure SQL, Synapse, Data Lake Storage Gen2, and Databricks.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and DevOps practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise analytics and BI platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, or Databricks AI/BI.
• Exposure to data governance, cataloging, and MDM practices.
• Knowledge of data vault, star schema, and snowflake modeling techniques.
• Experience with real-time or streaming data pipelines using Kafka, Event Hubs, or Spark Streaming.
• Experience designing unified data platforms, semantic layers, or knowledge graphs that support AI/ML initiatives.

Compensation & Benefits

The salary for this position is projected to be between $130,000.00 and $140,000.00 annually. A comprehensive benefits package is available to eligible employees.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.