Data Engineer

As a Data Engineer on our BI team you’ll be a key player in Motive’s growth delivering the data infrastructure for the AI era. You’ll act as the essential link between complex data and key business domains delivering the high-quality datasets and semantic models that drive global strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to implement cutting-edge tooling leverage AI to enhance your workflow and master a modern data stack in a fast-evolving environment.

This is the perfect role for a "jack of all trades" data practitioner. You’ll design data models build robust pipelines manage DevOps and automated systems and implement AI-driven data tooling. You’ll even get your hands dirty building dashboards and performing deep-dive analysis. If you love working full-stack and owning the entire data lifecycle you’ll love this role.

• Collaborate & Strategize: Partner closely with business stakeholders to understand their challenges and design end-to-end architecture that solves complex business problems.
• Build & Maintain Data Models: Design develop and own robust efficient and scalable data models in Snowflake and Iceberg using dbt and advanced SQL.
• Orchestrate & Automate: Build and manage reliable data pipelines and CI/CD workflows using tools like Airflow Python and Terraform to ensure data is fresh trustworthy and infrastructure is version-controlled.
• Champion Data Quality: Implement rigorous testing documentation and data governance practices to maintain a single source of truth.
• Enable Analytics & Workflows: Act as the Product Owner and Tech Lead for your data domains taking responsibility for the end-to-end data product delivery– from raw ingestion to data models enabling analytics and data apps in tools like Tableau and Retool.
• Innovate with AI: Help us build our next-generation data infrastructure by integrating AI capabilities (like Snowflake Cortex AI) to democratize analytics and empower the business.
• Architect Observability: Implement monitoring and alerting frameworks (e.g. dbt packages or  Monte Carlo monitors) to proactively catch "silent" data failures before stakeholders do.

• 6+ years of experience in Analytics Engineering Data Engineering or a similar role.
• Deep expertise in SQL and developing complex data models for analytical purposes (e.g. dimensional modeling).
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Data Warehousing: High proficiency in Snowflake (preferred) and experience with Open Table Formats like Iceberg.
  • Data Transformation: dbt
  • Orchestration & ETL: Airflow Fivetran Airbyte
  • Cloud Platform: AWS
  • Programming/Ingestion: Python
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
  • AI-Augmented Development: Proficiency using AI coding assistants (Cursor Copilot or Claude) to accelerate development and automate routine tasks.
• A strong analytical mindset with a proven ability to solve ambiguous business problems with data.
• Excellent communication skills and experience working cross-functionally.
• Self-starter with the ability to self-project manage work
• A user focus with the ability to understand how a data consumer will use the data products you build

Bonus Points (Nice-to-Haves)

• Experience building semantic models for natural language querying
• Direct experience with advanced Snowflake features (e.g. Snowpark Cortex AI).
• Experience building visualizations and dashboards in tools like Tableau  Retool or Thoughtspot.

What We Do

Motive builds technology to improve the safety productivity and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. The Motive Automated Operations Platform combines IoT hardware with AI-powered applications to automate vehicle and equipment tracking driver safety compliance maintenance spend management and more. Motive serves more than 120000 businesses across a wide range of industries including trucking and logistics construction oil and gas food and beverage field service agriculture passenger transit and delivery. Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

Why Work With Us

We work hard with humility and we see our efforts rewarded in tangible ways every day. At Motive you’ll have the chance to make a difference for the drivers who keep our world moving. We trust each other to do great work because together we can achieve collective goals that reach beyond the physical economy.

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