EY - GDS Consulting - AI And DATA - Snowflake Data engineer - Senior

5 - 10 years

7 - 12 Lacs

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Objectives and Purpose

  • The Senior Data Engineer ingests, builds, and supports large-scale data architectures that serve multiple downstream systems and business users. This individual supports the Data Engineer Leads and partners with Visualization on data quality and troubleshooting needs.
  • The Senior Data Engineer will
    • Clean, aggregate, and organize data from disparate sources and transfer it to data warehouses.
    • Support development testing and maintenance of data pipelines and platforms, to enable data quality to be utilized within business dashboards and tools.
    • Create, maintain, and support the data platform and infrastructure that enables the analytics front-end; this includes the testing, maintenance, construction, and development of architectures such as high-volume, large-scale data processing and databases with proper verification and validation processes.

Your key responsibilities

  • Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes to ingest, transform, and load data into Snowflake.
  • Develop and maintain Snowflake data warehouse solutions including schema design, performance tuning, and security implementation.
  • Integrate data from diverse sources (structured, semi-structured, unstructured) such as databases, APIs, CSV, XML, JSON, etc.
  • Implement best practices for Snowflake features such as virtual warehouses, clustering, time travel, zero-copy cloning, and data sharing.
  • Leverage Snowflake s advanced features (e.g., materialized views, result caching, query acceleration services) to improve query performance and reduce costs.
  • Collaborate with business users to understand requirements and deliver high-quality, reliable datasets for reporting and analytics.
  • Work with AWS services such as Glue, S3, Redshift, Lambda, IAM, and CloudWatch to support data workflows.
  • Ensure data governance, quality, and compliance across all pipelines.
  • Implement and manage Snowflake security features such as RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), data masking, and row-level security to ensure compliance with organizational and regulatory requirements.
  • Automate monitoring, logging, and alerting for data processes.
  • Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and continuous process improvements.

Required Skills Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering with strong focus on cloud data warehouses.
  • Proven track record of designing and implementing complex data solutions.
  • Hands-on expertise in Snowflake (SQL, SnowSQL, tasks, streams, stored procedures, performance tuning).
  • Strong knowledge of SQL, Python, and ETL/ELT frameworks.
  • Experience with AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift, etc.).
  • Familiarity with data modeling (3NF, Star Schema, Data Vault).
  • Experience with orchestration tools such as Airflow, DBT, or Rundeck.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines for data workflows.
  • Solid understanding of data governance, security, and compliance best practices using Snowflake.
  • Ability to troubleshoot and optimize SQL queries and Snowflake workloads .

Desired skillsets

  • Exposure to BI/Visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, QuickSight).
  • Knowledge of API integration and real-time data streaming (Kafka, Kinesis).
  • Understanding of DevOps concepts in data engineering.
  • Pharmaceutical, healthcare, or financial industry domain knowledge is a plus.
  • Snowflake Certification
  • Any cloud certification (AWS/Azure)






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