Snowflake Developer

Key Responsibilities: 

• Define and own the end-to-end architecture of data platforms built on Snowflake, including ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption layers. 

• Design and implement data lakehouse architectures using Snowflake’s native features such as Streams, Tasks, Materialized Views, and External Tables. 

• Establish best practices for data governance, security, and access control using Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Secure Views, and Row-Level Security. 

• Architect scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Snowflake, DBT, and Python, integrating with orchestration tools like Airflow etx. 

• Lead integration of Snowflake with enterprise systems such as data catalogs, data quality frameworks, monitoring tools, and BI platforms. 

• Working knowledge ofAI integrationswith Snowflake, includingSnowflake CortexandLLM-powered analytics, with experience in enabling intelligent data applications. 

• Guide teams in implementing CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake deployments using tools like GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI. 

• Monitor and optimize Snowflake performance using Query Profile, Resource Monitors, Clustering Keys, and Auto-Suspend/Resume features. 

• Collaborate with data analysts, engineers, and business stakeholders to ensure platform reliability and data accessibility. 

• Conduct architectural reviews, code audits, and mentoring sessions to ensure adherence to standards and scalability. 

• Stay current with Snowflake innovations and advocate for adoption of new features and capabilities. 

Skills / Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field required. 

• At least 10 years of experience in data development and solutions in highly complex data environments with large data volumes. 

• At least 10 years of SQL / PLSQL experience with the ability to write ad-hoc and complex queries to perform data analysis. 

• At least 2 years of experience developing data pipelines and data warehousing solutions using Python and snowpark. 

• Familiarity with Snowflake’s architecture, including virtual warehouses, data storage layers, and compute scaling. 

• Hands on experience with DBT preferred. 

• Experience with performance tuning SQL queries, Spark job, and stored procedures. 

• An understanding of E-R data models (conceptual, logical, and physical). 

• Understanding of advanced data warehouse concepts is required 

• Strong analytical skills, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business requirements and translate them into technical designs and solutions. 

• Strong communication skills both verbal and written. Capable of collaborating effectively across a variety of IT and Business groups, across regions, roles and able to interact effectively with all levels. 

• Strong problem-solving skills. Ability to identify where focus is needed and bring clarity to business objectives, requirements, and priorities.