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Title: Sr. Snowflake Data Engineer
Location : Jacksonville, FL (3 Days Work from Office)
Duration: 6 months C2H
Roles And Responsibilities
Educational Qualifications: -
Required Skills & Experience
Title: Sr. Snowflake Data Engineer
Location : Jacksonville, FL (3 Days Work from Office)
Duration: 6 months C2H
Roles And Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize Snowflake data models, schemas, and complex SQL transformations to support enterprise analytics and reporting.
- Implement robust ELT frameworks leveraging Snowflake-native capabilities such as virtual warehouses, clustering, micro-partition pruning, time travel, and zero-copy cloning.
- Lead and support phased migration initiatives from legacy analytics platforms including Ab Initio, Hadoop/Spark, SAS, and relational databases to Snowflake.
- Perform performance tuning and cost optimization through effective warehouse sizing, query optimization, workload isolation, and monitoring.
- Integrate Snowflake with upstream and downstream systems, including Spark pipelines, Python-based data processing, and BI/analytics tools.
- Collaborate with data architects, analytics teams, and business stakeholders to plan, prioritize, and deliver incremental modernization outcomes.
- Provide production support, incident resolution, and defect remediation in a managed-capacity delivery model.
- Contribute to migration documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge transfer to ensure long-term platform sustainability.
Educational Qualifications: -
- Engineering Degree BE/ME/BTech/MTech/BSc/MSc.
- Technical certification in multiple technologies is desirable.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake architecture, SQL development, and performance tuning.
- Expertise in data modeling techniques (dimensional and analytical) and modern ELT patterns.
- Proven experience migrating data and analytics workloads from legacy ETL and analytics platforms to Snowflake.
- Advanced SQL optimization and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience working in governed and regulated data environments (healthcare preferred).
- Exposure to Python, Spark, or cloud-based analytics ecosystems.
- Experience supporting large-scale analytics modernization initiatives, preferably in healthcare.
- Exposure to R and/or Python-based analytics workloads integrated with Snowflake.
- Experience working in Agile or hybrid delivery environments.