Your New Role
We're seeking a Senior Data Engineer to help shape and maintain a modern enterprise data platform. In this role, you'll design and optimise scalable data pipelines and models that bring data from core business systems into Snowflake, enabling analytics, reporting, and data-driven insights across the organisation.You'll translate strategic data architecture into robust technical solutions, ensuring the platform is reliable, performant, and well-structured. You'll champion engineering best practices and contribute to standards that improve data quality, consistency, and usability.Your work will ensure the business has access to trusted, timely, and well-modelled data to support decision-making, operational reporting, and future AI/ML capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
* Data Engineering Delivery: Build and maintain high-quality data pipelines and models in Snowflake to support analytics and reporting needs.
* Architecture Implementation: Apply defined data architecture standards to ingestion, transformation, storage, and optimisation processes.
* Pipeline Development: Develop robust ELT/ETL workflows using dbt and orchestration tools, ensuring reliability and maintainability.
* Performance & Cost Optimisation: Configure Snowflake warehouses and implement query optimisation techniques for efficiency.
* Data Quality & Governance: Apply data quality checks, lineage tracking, and security standards aligned with InfoSec and regulatory requirements.
* Feature Adoption: Leverage Snowflake capabilities (Tasks, Streams, Snowpark, Time Travel, Secure Data Sharing) to improve automation and accessibility.
* Collaboration: Work closely with analysts and stakeholders to deliver data products and troubleshoot issues.
* Analytics Enablement: Implement dimensional models to provide clean, reusable datasets for reporting and advanced analytics.
* Monitoring & Reliability: Maintain monitoring, alerting, and cost-management processes for Snowflake and pipelines.
* Continuous Improvement: Contribute to shared engineering standards and best practices across the team.
What You'll Need to Succeed
* Proven experience delivering cloud-based data engineering solutions, ideally with Snowflake.
* Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, and dbt for transformations and pipeline automation.
* Practical experience with Snowflake features and RBAC management.
* Familiarity with ingestion tools (Airbyte, Fivetran, Hevo) and cloud services (AWS preferred).
* Solid understanding of data modelling, governance principles, and BI enablement (Power BI).
* Knowledge of CI/CD and version-controlled development practices in git.
* Desirable: Experience with enterprise systems (CRM, BSS/OSS), data migration projects, and supporting platform adoption.
* Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform is advantageous.
What you need to do now
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