Snowflake Engineer

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Sr. Data Engineer for a contract assignment with one of our premier Insurance clients. This role will be hybrid out of Hartford, CT; Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Frisco, TX; Columbus, OH; Danbury, CT; or Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for technical delivery review, resolution of architecture issues in AWS Snowflake platform.
• Demonstrate expertise in Snowflake's cloud native architecture and Microsoft SQL server technology.
• Ability to create, troubleshoot, enhance complex code in Snowflake and SQL server.
• Experience in building data pipelines (ELT) with Snowflake cloud data platform using AWS compute (EC2) and storage layers (S3).
• Experience in building the Snowflake SQL Data warehouse using the Virtual warehouses based on best practices.
• Hands on experience working with Talend or SSIS as an ELT tool with Snowflake and SQL server Data Integration.
• Implement and leverage Materialized views, Data Sharing, Clone Feature and Performed Dynamic data Masking.
• Have a solid understanding of delivery methodology (SDLC) and lead teams in the implementation of the solution according to the design/architecture.
• Hands on experience with Snow SQL, Stored Procedures, UDF's using JavaScript, SnowPipe and other snowflake utilities.
• Experience in Data migration from RDMS to snowflake cloud Data warehouse.
• Experience in data security and data access controls and design.
• Solution the data loading and unloading activities to/from Snowflake.
• Experience working with Data Lakes loading disparate data sources- Structured, semi-structured data (Flat files, XML, JSON, Parquet) and unstructured data.
• Experience in building data pipelines using Talend and automation of data ingestion including change data capture (CDC).
• Integration of data pipelines with source control repository and build CI/CD pipeline and DevOps.
• Experience in Performance Tuning of Talend / SQL Agent Jobs to reduce the CPU time/load timing.
• Deeper Knowledge on Snowflake License model and their continuous data protection life cycle.
• Architect reusable Talend components such as Audit and reconciliation of jobs.
• Researches and evaluates alternative solutions and recommends the most efficient and cost-effective solution for the systems design.
• Support and quickly respond to Production issues and requirements clarifications.
• Coordinate as needed between multiple disciplines such as, Architects, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, and Developers to get technical clarity leading to design, develop and implementation of business solution.
• Oversight of quality and completeness of detailed technical specifications, solution designs, and code reviews as well as adherence to the non-functional requirements.
• Experience in delivering technical solutions in an iterative, agile environment (Scrum/Kanban)
• Participate as active agile team member to help drive feature refinement, user story completion, code review, etc.
• Identify, document, and communicate technical risks, issues and alternative technical solutions discovered during project.
• Collaboration with a high-performing, forward-focused team, Release train engineer, Product Owner(s) and Business stakeholders.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years in Snowflake in AWS and Talend Data Integrator or other BI/ETL tools.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Data warehouse and Data Integration (ELT/ETL)
• 7+ years of Proficiency in ETL with Microsoft Business Intelligence (SSIS, SSRS) and other tools.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Data Visualization (preferably Tableau).
• Strong background and problem-solving skills with Enterprise Data warehouse, ETL/ELT development, Database Replication, metadata management and data quality.
• Hands-on experience in all phases of SDLC developing ETL solutions using T-SQL code, Stored Procedures, SSIS.
• Strong data warehouse applications knowledge in preferably in financial/insurance domain is required.
• Knowledge of version control tools, CI/CD pipeline and DevOps tools like GitHub, Jenkins nexus and uDeploy.
• Knowledge of Data Profiling, Data Modeling and Database design is key to this role.

SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .

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