Sr. Snowflake Data Engineer

Sr. Snowflake Data Engineer Location

Houston, TX or Allentown, PA - Hybrid, 3 days onsite



Local candidates in TX or PA are preferred. An in-person interview may be requested during the final round. Job Summary

STAFFXPERT LLC is seeking a Sr. Snowflake Data Engineer on behalf of our client in Houston, TX or Allentown, PA to help build and enhance a modern data platform supporting critical business use cases. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on Snowflake and AWS experience, expertise in data engineering and modeling, and the ability to independently lead technical initiatives and teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Build automated and manual data ingestion pipelines into Snowflake.

• Develop data transformations, mappings, reusable components, and UDFs.

• Design and implement scalable data models and warehouse/lakehouse solutions.

• Optimize Snowflake workloads and pipelines for performance, reliability, and cost.

• Support platform architecture, connectivity, configuration, and workload design.

• Deliver data solutions through Agile, iterative development cycles.

• Support UAT, production readiness, deployment, rollback, recovery, and business continuity.

• Establish reusable platform capabilities to accelerate future data initiatives.

• Collaborate with business and technical teams to deliver high-quality data solutions.

• Independently lead technical initiatives and provide guidance to team members.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of overall IT experience with strong data engineering expertise.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Snowflake , including:

  • Data modeling

  • Performance optimization

  • Access controls

  • Data warehousing and lakehouse patterns

  • Automated and manual data pipelines

• Strong understanding of transactional data systems such as ERP or Trading platforms .

• Working knowledge of AWS data services, including S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, EMR, and Redshift.

• Experience designing scalable cloud-based data architectures.

• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

• Demonstrated ability to lead a team independently .

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building enterprise-scale data platforms.

• Experience with Agile delivery and CI/CD practices.

• Experience supporting data quality, governance, security, and operational standards.

• Experience within financial, energy, trading, or other data-intensive environments.

• Strong leadership and stakeholder management experience.