Snowflake Lead – Data Engineering

K&K Global Talent Solutions Inc. is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the Canada and the USA region since 1993.

This position is with one of our clients in USA, who is actively hiring candidates to expand their teams.

Role:- Snowflake Lead – Data Engineering   

Location:- San Antonio, TX / New York, NY (onsite) 

Fulltime

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Snowflake, Cortex AI, Python and Insurance Domain on AWS Cloud, Talend ETL

Roles & Responsibilities

The Snowflake Lead will serve as the onsite technical lead for CLEARBROOK ’s enterprise data platform, responsible for end to end Snowflake solution design, development leadership, and AI/advanced analytics enablement. The role requires deep hands on expertise in Snowflake, strong data engineering fundamentals, and the ability to integrate AI/ML driven use cases into the Snowflake ecosystem while coordinating with offshore teams.

Snowflake Production Support

•             Perform root cause analysis for job failures and data analysis & fixes 

•             Perform Month End Closing Activities

Snowflake Development & Architecture

•             Lead design and development of Snowflake schemas, tables, views, streams, tasks, and Snowpipes

•             Define and enforce best practices for performance optimization (warehouse sizing, clustering, query tuning)

•             Own Snowflake security architecture: RBAC, role hierarchy, data masking, row/column level security

•             Oversee promotion of code across environments using CI/CD practices 

Data Engineering & Integration

•             Lead development of batch and near real time ingestion pipelines using Talend / Qlik Replicate / Snowpipe

•             Ensure data quality checks, reconciliation, and schema drift handling

•             Guide integration from insurance source systems (Policy, Claims, Billing, Reinsurance) into Snowflake

•             Provide technical oversight for SQL, Python, and ELT based transformations

AI / Advanced Analytics Enablement

•             Enable AI/ML use cases on Snowflake, including: 

o             Feature engineering datasets for ML models

o             Snowpark (Python)–based data processing

o             Integration with external ML platforms (Databricks / SageMaker / Azure ML where applicable)

•             Support AI driven insights such as: 

o             Claims triage & risk scoring

o             Fraud detection inputs

o             Premium leakage and pricing analytics

•             Guide teams in using Python, SQL, and Snowflake native capabilities for data science workloads

Core Technical Skills

•             Snowflake: Advanced SQL, Performance Tuning, Security, Snowpipe, Streams & Tasks

•             Data Engineering: ELT/ETL patterns, data modeling, CDC concepts

•             Python: Data processing, automation, Snowpark (preferred)

•             Strong understanding of cloud data platform architecture (AWS preferred)

AI / Analytics Skills

•             Hands on exposure to AI/ML pipelines (feature preparation, training data creation)

•             Experience supporting ML models through data engineering and operationalization

•             Familiarity with Python ML libraries (scikit learn, pandas, NumPy) – applied from a data engineering perspective

•             Understanding of model lifecycle support (data refresh, monitoring, retraining inputs)

Domain & Soft Skills

•             Insurance domain experience (P&C / Specialty Insurance strongly preferred)

•             Strong communication skills for onsite customer interaction

•             Ability to translate business requirements into scalable data & AI solutions