Cloud Data Engineer - Snowflake, DBT, Airflow and AWS

Job Title: Senior Cloud Data Engineer / Cloud Data Platform Engineer

Experience: 8–10 Years

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Data Engineer with strong expertise in Snowflake, DBT, Airflow, and AWS to join our Data Engineering team. The ideal candidate will possess hands-on cloud data platform implementation experience, solutioning capabilities, infrastructure automation expertise, and the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders across business and technology teams.

This role requires a blend of technical excellence, architecture thinking, cloud platform delivery experience, and strong communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support scalable cloud-based data platforms on AWS.
• Build and optimize ELT/ETL pipelines using Snowflake, DBT, and Airflow.
• Participate in solution design, architecture discussions, and technical decision-making.
• Implement and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Develop and support CI/CD pipelines for data platform deployments.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams to deliver data solutions.
• Ensure platform reliability, performance, security, and operational excellence.
• Troubleshoot production issues and provide ongoing cloud platform support.
• Drive best practices around automation, data governance, monitoring, and cloud optimization.

Required Skills

Technical Skills

• Snowflake
• DBT
• Apache Airflow
• AWS Cloud Services
• Python and SQL
• Data Warehousing and Data Modeling
• GitHub / Git

Cloud & DevOps Skills

• Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• CI/CD Pipelines (Buildkite, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Cloud platform deployment and operational support
• AWS IAM, Security, and Monitoring

Desired Experience

• Strong experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud data platforms.
• Experience in solutioning, architecture, and technical leadership.
• Exposure to modern data engineering practices and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience working in Agile environments.
• Financial Services, Banking, or Collections domain experience is desirable.

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Strong stakeholder management and client-facing experience.
• Ability to lead technical discussions and influence architectural decisions.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Preferred Candidate Profile

• 8–10 years of overall IT experience.
• Minimum 4–6 years of hands-on experience with Snowflake and AWS.
• Proven experience delivering cloud data engineering solutions end-to-end.
• Ability to balance hands-on development with solution design and stakeholder engagement.

Keywords: Snowflake, DBT, Airflow, AWS, Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD, Data Engineering, Cloud Platform, Data Warehouse, Solution Architect, Infrastructure as Code, AWS IAM.

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