Data Engineer (Snowflake)

HICV is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Snowflake, ELT pipeline development, and data warehousing best practices. This role focuses on building, optimizing, and maintaining data pipelines and curated data models that support analytics, reporting, and business intelligence efforts across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust ELT pipelines using SQL and Python.
• Develop efficient data ingestion processes for databases, APIs, cloud storage, and flat files.
• Implement transformation workflows using Snowflake features (Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, stages, stored procedures).
• Create and maintain dimensional and subject-area data models supporting analytics and reporting.
• Build high-quality curated layers (staging, integration, semantic layers) following data warehousing best practices.
• Ensure data meets accuracy, consistency, and performance standards.
• Optimize Snowflake SQL, virtual warehouse usage, and storage to improve performance and minimize cost.
• Monitor pipeline performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement tuning strategies.
• Implement data quality rules, profiling checks, and monitoring frameworks.
• Ensure solutions adhere to corporate data governance, security, and compliance standards.
• Maintain strong documentation for transformations, lineage, and system processes.
• Partner with data architects to align engineering work with high-level architecture.
• Work closely with analytics, BI, and product teams to understand data needs and deliver reliable datasets.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to establishing engineering best practices.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and support release management, versioning, and CI/CD workflows.

Skills & Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering or data warehouse engineering roles.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and solid experience using Python for data processing.
• Hands-on expertise with Snowflake (warehouse management, roles, data modeling, Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, Time Travel, etc.).
• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts (Kimball, star/snowflake schemas, dimensional modeling).
• Experience building scalable ELT pipelines and working with large datasets.
• Familiarity with Azure cloud services (ADLS, ADF, Azure Functions, Key Vault, etc.).
• Experience with modern orchestration/transformation tools (e.g.Azure Data Factory).
• Strong problem-solving abilities and a passion for building reliable data systems.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Snowflake SnowPro Core or Data Engineer certification.
• Experience with CI/CD (GitHub, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Experience supporting BI platforms (Power BI, Tableau, etc.).