SnowFlake Engineer

Job#: 3025372

Job Description:

SWIB is seeking: A senior-level Snowflake Data Warehouse Engineer with 7+ years of data engineering experience and 5+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience in production environments. This role will deliver scalable, high-performant data warehouse powering investment risk and portfolio analytics. The ideal candidate has built and optimized enterprise-grade analytical platforms, implemented robust CDC frameworks, and supported performance-sensitive financial reporting workloads. The resource will assist with developing reliable, governed, and performant data solutions that enable exposure reporting, factor analysis, time-series risk metrics, stress testing, and performance attribution. This role works closely with business intelligence engineers, data architects, and data scientists. The selected Contractor will be responsible for the following essential activities:

Implement Snowflake schemas and object lifecycle strategies optimized for risk and portfolio analytics workloads.

Develop scalable, dimensional, and time-series data models supporting portfolio hierarchies, positions, security master integration, exposures, and risk metrics.

Build robust ELT pipelines using dbt and native Snowflake capabilities, including Streams, Tasks, and Snowpipe, to support daily and intraday data processing.

Implement efficient change data capture and incremental processing strategies for position, pricing, risk, and reference data.

Develop and maintain high-performance tables, views, and materialized views aligned with performance-sensitive analytical use cases.

Lead query performance optimization efforts, including clustering strategy design, micro-partition awareness, warehouse sizing, caching behavior, and workload management.

Establish data quality frameworks, including reconciliation controls, completeness checks, monitoring, and alerting for financial datasets.

Automate Snowflake deployments and SQL transformations using GitLab CI/CD pipelines and version control best practices.

Document data models, lineage, architectural decisions, governance controls, and operational runbooks.

Troubleshoot production failures, perform root cause analysis, and remediate issues impacting reporting timelines.

The Contractor requires the following skills, abilities, and background:

7+ years of experience in data engineering or data warehousing roles.

5+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience in production environments, including: o Creating and managing databases, schemas, roles, and grants. o Designing and implementing Streams and Tasks for CDC and scheduled processing. o Building and optimizing materialized views and performance-driven data models.

Expert-level SQL skills, with deep experience in complex window functions, CTEs, analytic queries, set-based transformations, and query performance tuning.

4+ years of experience with ELT frameworks or transformation tools, preferably dbt.

Experience integrating Snowflake with Azure cloud storage and upstream financial systems.

Demonstrated experience implementing GitLab CI/CD for SQL-based transformations and Snowflake object deployments.

Strong understanding of analytical data modeling, including star schemas, slowly changing dimensions, fact tables, aggregates, and large-scale time-series structures.

Experience supporting high-volume, performance-sensitive financial or portfolio datasets.

Familiarity with portfolio accounting, security master data, market data feeds, or risk concepts such as VaR, factor exposure, stress testing, or performance attribution. This engagement is expected to be an initial 6-month duration with renewal options.

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join 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. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: 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. 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, 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. 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 Apex team member can provide.