Snowflake Data Engineer

A senior data engineer with extensive hands-on experience in building and maintaining modern, scalable data pipelines and transformation frameworks. This role involves designing, developing, and optimizing production-grade data solutions using Snowflake, dbt, and Fivetran. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong ownership, accountability, and operational independence to deliver high-quality data infrastructures that meet enterprise standards for performance, cost-efficiency, and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable ELT pipelines utilizing Fivetran for ingestion and dbt for transformation on Snowflake.
• Develop and manage modular, reusable dbt models including staging, intermediate, and data marts, with documentation and testing.
• Create scalable data models based on best practices such as star schema, dimensional modeling, and data vault principles.
• Optimize Snowflake performance through query tuning, workload management, micro-partitioning, clustering, and pruning.
• Build and enforce data quality frameworks featuring schema validation, testing, and reconciliation for consistency and accuracy.
• Develop Python scripts for automation, operational tooling, metadata management, and orchestration support.
• Implement and maintain Git-based development workflows including version control, branching, pull requests, and code reviews.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to enable automated testing, deployment, and environment promotion for data workflows.
• Collaborate with platform, governance, and business teams to align on data requirements, access control, and delivery standards.
• Work with orchestration tools like Airflow or similar to schedule, monitor, and manage data pipeline executions, ensuring operational reliability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on production experience with dbt, including model development, dependency management, macros, testing, and deployment.
• Deep Snowflake expertise encompassing data modeling, performance tuning, cost optimization, security, and access control.
• Strong SQL skills for building complex transformations and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency in Python programming for automation, data processing, and operational support.
• Solid experience with Git, including collaborative development workflows and version control.
• Proven track record in designing, building, and maintaining reliable, high-performance data pipelines aligned with SLAs.
• Mandatory: Direct, practical experience with Fivetran connectors setup/troubleshooting, dbt model development/testing, and Snowflake engineering in a production environment.
• Familiarity with orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools preferred.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work independently and actively collaborate across teams.
• Availability to work on-site at the designated location.