Snowflake Database Engineer
Responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing the organization's Snowflake data warehouse to ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and security while supporting data engineering and analytics initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Administration: Manage Snowflake databases, schemas, roles, and warehouses; optimize compute resources; monitor performance; automate tasks using SQL/Python; enforce security policies.
- Data Integration: Support ETL/ELT pipelines (DBT/ADF), data ingestion from cloud/APIs/databases, and efficient transformation strategies.
- Performance Tuning: Optimize queries, implement clustering/partitioning, and manage warehouse sizing for cost/performance balance.
- Security & Compliance: Ensure encryption, masking, backups, disaster recovery, and compliance with standards.
- Collaboration: Partner with engineers/analysts, troubleshoot issues, provide best practices, and stay current with Snowflake updates.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's in CS or related field
- 3 5+ years DBA/Data Engineering experience; 2+ years Snowflake
- Strong SQL, performance tuning, data modeling
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) and ETL tools (DBT, ADF)
Preferred: SnowPro certification, scripting (Python), CI/CD (Terraform), BI tools (Tableau, Power BI).
We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.