Data Engineer

Data Engineer / Snowflake Technical Lead

Overview
We are seeking an experienced Snowflake Technical Lead to lead the design, development and optimization of enterprise-scale cloud data platforms. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in Snowflake, modern data engineering practices, cloud technologies, data modeling and team leadership. This role will be responsible for driving architecture decisions, establishing best practices, mentoring engineers, and ensuring successful delivery of business-critical analytics and data initiatives.

Key Responsibilities
• Lead the architecture, design and implementation of Snowflake-based data platforms.
• Define scalable and secure data platform standards, patterns and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership for data engineering projects and modernization initiatives.
• Review solution designs and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Drive performance tuning, optimization and cost management of Snowflake environments.

Snowflake Platform Management
• Design and manage Snowflake databases, schemas, warehouses, resource monitors and security policies.
• Implement data sharing, secure views, masking policies, row-level security and governance controls.
• Optimize Snowflake workloads for performance, scalability and cost efficiency.
• Lead migration initiatives from legacy platforms such as Teradata, SQL Server, Oracle, Hadoop or Netezza to Snowflake.

Data Engineering & Integration
• Build and oversee ELT/ETL pipelines using tools such as Snowpipe, dbt, Fivetran, Informatica, Matillion, Azure Data Factory and Databricks.
• Develop batch and real-time data ingestion solutions.
• Implement data quality monitoring, lineage and observability frameworks.
• Design data models supporting analytics, reporting and AI/ML workloads.

Stakeholder Management
• Collaborate with business, analytics, governance, security and application teams.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Present architecture recommendations and project updates to leadership.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for Snowflake initiatives.