Lead Snowflake Engineer- Remote #Vaiticka Solution
Vaiticka Solution LLC
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Skills
- Snowflake
- data engineer
- ETL
- AI
Summary
Position: Lead Snowflake Engineer
Location: Remote
Employment: Contract
Job Description:
We are seeking a Lead Snowflake Engineer with strong experience in Snowflake, administration, and cloud data platforms. This is a hands-on role responsible for designing, managing, securing, and optimizing the Snowflake environment while working closely with data engineering, analytics, and cloud teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Architecture & Development
- Design and build scalable Snowflake data warehouse and data lake solutions.
- Develop data models, ETL/ELT pipelines, and analytics-ready datasets.
- Implement Snowflake Data Sharing and advanced features such as Cortex AI.
- Create secure and governed data solutions using masking, encryption, and access controls.
- Partner with business and technical teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
- Evaluate and adopt new Snowflake capabilities to improve performance, security, and cost efficiency.
Platform Administration
- Manage Snowflake environments across development, testing, and production.
- Administer databases, schemas, warehouses, users, roles, and permissions.
- Monitor platform performance, availability, and costs.
- Troubleshoot performance, data pipeline, and access issues.
- Implement disaster recovery, replication, backup, and failover strategies.
- Maintain documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures.
- Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy, and security standards.
- Provide technical guidance to Snowflake administrators and support teams.
Required Skills:
- 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, or Data Platforms.
- 4+ years of hands-on Snowflake and administration experience.
- Strong expertise in:
- Snowflake Architecture & Administration
- Data Warehousing & Dimensional Modeling
- Advanced SQL
- ETL/ELT Pipeline Development
- Performance Tuning & Cost Optimization
- Snowflake Security & Governance
- Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.
- Experience with GitHub and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Skills:
- Python
- Terraform, Bash, or other automation tools
- Snowflake Horizon
- Cortex AI
- Snowflake Data Sharing
- SnowPro Core Certification
- Dice Id: 91165979
- Position Id: 361-40863-1791987059
- Posted 4 hours ago
Company Info
Our brand’s primary goal is to offer the necessary recruitment solutions to our corporate clients. We assist businesses and candidates in enhancing their overall growth chances with our premium variety of services. As a reputable company, we are always here to assist you in developing the best procedures for selecting the best individuals from a large pool. Most importantly, we help you narrow down the pool of qualified candidates and run a productive training session. To enable our clients to become more agile and competitive through innovative utilization of technology, process and people. Vaiticka Solution is Intentionally Inclusive.