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Sr Snowflake Engineer
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A Software Developer or Engineer designs or improves computer software. Oversees the entire software development process. Analyzes customer or user needs, designs programs, writes code or instructs computer programmers, tests design, and documents programs. May assist with upgrades or maintenance. May specialize in the design of computer applications or computer systems.
$116,998 / year median in Pennsylvania
-5% projected decline
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Snowflake Engineer for a 6-month contract position in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In this role, you will help build out the data platform foundation and deliver business use cases through an iterative, Agile wave-based approach. You will work on Trading Risk data use cases, moving them from design through production while establishing standardized architecture, security, governance, data quality, CI/CD, and operational practices that can support additional use cases and teams. Responsibilities Build automated and manual data ingestion pipelines into Snowflake Implement transformations and mappings across the ingestion layers Develop reusable data transformation components and UDFs Support architectural decisions related to connectivity, platform configuration, and workload design Optimize pipelines and Snowflake workloads for performance, reliability, and cost Deliver prioritized use cases through iterative Design, Build, Business Testing, Operational Testing, and Production cycles Support UAT, production readiness, deployment, rollback, recovery, and business continuity procedures Help establish reusable platform capabilities to enable efficient delivery of subsequent use cases Qualifications Required Hands-on experience building manual and automated pipelines in Snowflake Expertise with data models, performance optimization, and access controls Experience with data warehouse and data lakes Experience with transactional data systems such as ERPs or Trading platforms Knowledge of AWS and its services including S3, Glue, Lambda, EMR, and Redshift