Overview
Remote
$DOE
Full Time
Part Time
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Skills
Terraform
AWS
Python
Azure
ETL
Snowflake
DBT
ADF
Job Details
Job Title: Snowflake Engineer
Role Type: 12 Months
MUST HAVE:
Snowflake Data Engineering
SQL
Integration/ETL (DBT/ADF)
Good communication
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Snowflake Database Engineer
Responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing the organization's Snowflake data warehouse to ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and security while supporting data engineering and analytics initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Administration: Manage Snowflake databases, schemas, roles, and warehouses; optimize compute resources; monitor performance; automate tasks using SQL/Python; enforce security policies.
- Data Integration: Support ETL/ELT pipelines (DBT/ADF), data ingestion from cloud/APIs/databases, and efficient transformation strategies.
- Performance Tuning: Optimize queries, implement clustering/partitioning, and manage warehouse sizing for cost/performance balance.
- Security & Compliance: Ensure encryption, masking, backups, disaster recovery, and compliance with standards.
- Collaboration: Partner with engineers/analysts, troubleshoot issues, provide best practices, and stay current with Snowflake updates.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's in CS or related field
- 3 5+ years DBA/Data Engineering experience; 2+ years Snowflake
- Strong SQL, performance tuning, data modeling
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) and ETL tools (DBT, ADF)
Preferred: SnowPro certification, scripting (Python), CI/CD (Terraform), BI tools (Tableau, Power BI).
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