Senior Snowflake Developer

For our client we are looking for an experienced Senior Snowflake Developer to join Data Engineering team and take ownership of advanced data warehouse initiatives within a modern cloud environment. This role combines hands-on engineering work with architectural thinking and close collaboration across BI, Analytics, and Data Science teams. You will play a key role in evolving and optimizing Snowflake-based data platforms, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and alignment with business-critical reporting and analytical solutions. We are not looking for a regular developer. We are looking for someone who designs, builds and configures Snowflake environments end-to-end, and can act as a technical leader in complex enterprise projects. Key Responsibilities • Design and implement modern data platforms (Data Warehouse / Lakehouse) • Architect and build scalable ETL/ELT frameworks • Design and configure Snowflake environments (security, RBAC, performance tuning, cost optimization) • Integrate Snowflake with Azure cloud services and on-prem infrastructure • Lead Snowflake migration projects (including reverse engineering of existing solutions) • Implement cross-account data sharing and multi-environment strategies • Rebuild or modernize legacy data processing frameworks • Build and optimize CI/CD processes for data platforms • Ensure data structures support enterprise BI environments (e.g., Power BI) • Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers • Communicate architectural decisions to business and technical stakeholders Requirements • 5+ years of experience designing data platforms (DWH / Lakehouse) • 5+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience • Experience designing and configuring Snowflake environments (it will be a big plus) • Proven experience working with public cloud environments, Azure, AWS, or GCP (Azure preferred) • Experience leading Snowflake migration projects • Strong SQL and Python skills • Advanced knowledge of data modeling (Medallion, Kimball) • Implementation of security and data access control mechanisms • Basic understanding of MLOps concepts • Experience working directly with enterprise clients Nice to Have • 2+ years of experience working with streaming data (e.g., Apache Kafka) • Strong background in performance tuning and cost optimization in Snowflake • Experience with Snowflake performance and cost optimization