Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake)

Project description

Our Client is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Their purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth. Team is responsible for managing a secure, scalable, and highly available cloud platform built on AWS, Azure, and Snowflake. Our mission is to deliver a strategic Common Data and Reporting solution for clients, members, and regulators by consolidating multiple data sources into a centralized reporting data store. This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge cloud technologies and contribute to building a platform that transforms how data is leveraged across the business.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines using Python, SQL, DBT, and Apache Airflow
  • Develop and manage DBT models and ensure reliable workflow orchestration in Airflow
  • Monitor and maintain Snowflake platform performance, availability, and cost efficiency
  • Troubleshoot and resolve issues across data ingestion, transformation, and pipelines
  • Implement and maintain end-to-end data quality testing and validation frameworks
  • Automate deployments and workflows using GitLab CI/CD and support release processes
  • Provide support to users and collaborate with teams on Snowflake, Airflow, and data solutions
  • Document architecture and best practices while contributing to technical design, mentoring, and continuous improvement

SKILLS

Must have

  • 7+ years of proven experience as a Senior Data Engineer
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake (preferred) or Databricks/Oracle
  • Solid experience with DBT (data modeling and transformation)
  • Experience with cloud platforms – AWS (preferred) or Azure
  • Strong SQL - advanced query writing and optimization skills
  • Strong Python - experience in data processing and automation
  • Basic CI/CD knowledge (GitLab or similar) - understanding of deployment pipelines
  • Apache Airflow - workflow orchestration
  • Data Build Tool - data transformation and modeling

Nice to have

• Terraform - infrastructure as code • Kafka - event streaming and messaging