Senior Software Engineer Python with Snowflake
Job Summary
Our Technology teams are working on our new validation platform. Our clients around the world rely on data and insights to innovate and grow.
As a Senior Engineer youll be part of a team of smart highly skilled technologists who are passionate about learning and supporting cutting-edge technologies such as Snowflake Tasks Streams Pipes (Snowpipe) External Tables components:Azure: Blob Storage ADLS Functions ADF Purview
Roles and Responsibilities
Data Engineering & Pipelines
Design develop and optimize scalable ELT/ETL pipelines using Python and SQL.
Build real-time near-real-time and batch frameworks using cloud-native services.
Implement incremental loads CDC SCD schema evolution and orchestration best practices.
Snowflake Engineering
Architect and manage Snowflake environments: warehouses databases schemas resource monitors RBAC zero-copy clones clusters micro partition.
Implement Snowflake Tasks Streams Pipes (Snowpipe) External Tables for event-driven data workflows.
Optimize compute cost and query performance using clustering micro-partitioning caching and warehouse sizing.
Cloud Engineering - Azure
Build and maintain solutions using cloud-native compute/storage components:
Azure: Blob Storage ADLS Functions ADF Purview
Data Warehousing & Modeling
Design enterprise-grade Data Warehouses Data Marts and Semantic Layers.
Implement Kimball Data Vault and modern ELT-first design patterns.
Work closely with BI/ML teams to operationalize features and analytics models.
AI engineering
Design develop and deploy AI and Generative AI solutions aligned with business requirements.
DevSecOps & Platform Engineering
Implement CI/CD pipelines for data engineering code (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps / GitLab CI).
Enforce DevSecOps practices:
secret scanning
IaC security gates
dependency scanning
policy-as-code (OPA/Conftest)
Build infrastructure using Terraform / Azure Bicep / CloudFormation.
Automated Testing & Data Quality
Implement data unit testing schema validation and contract enforcement:
pytest
Great Expectations/dbt tests
automated data profiling
Build automated quality dashboards lineage and SLA monitoring.
Leadership & Collaboration
Lead design reviews code reviews and data platform roadmap discussions.
Mentor junior engineers and enforce engineering excellence.
Partner with Product Data Science and Business teams to deliver data-driven solutions.
Qualifications :
610 years of professional experience in Data Engineering.
Strong expertise in Python (pandas asyncio OOP typing packaging pytest).
Hands-on experience with Snowflake at enterprise scale.
Advanced SQL skillsoptimizing complex joins window functions CTEs and performance tuning.
Strong cloud background: AWS Azure or GCP.
Deep understanding of data warehousing concepts: dimensional modeling star schemas data marts CDC/SCD modeling for high-volume pipelines
CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/GitLab CI.
Experience with IaC tools like Terraform/Bicep.
Strong understanding of DevSecOps practices: secrets management IAM design vulnerability scanning zero trust principles
Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow/ADF/Prefect/Step Functions).
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience with dbt (models tests exposures).
Streaming platform experience (Kafka Kinesis Pub/Sub).
Experience implementing OpenLineage Marquez or other lineage tools.
Familiarity with Lakehouse architectures (Delta Lake Iceberg Hudi).
Understanding of MLOps concepts and feature stores.
Knowledge of cost governance and FinOps best practices.
Prior leadership/mentorship experience.
Additional Information :
Our Benefits
- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)
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About Company
NIQ is the worlds leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holi ... View more