Sr Data Engineer (Snowflake, SnowPark, SnowPipe)
Kanak Elite Services Inc
- Missouri
- Permanent
- Full-time
Location ::: St. Louis, MO (Hybrid)-- This job will be mostly remote, but there will be meetings each week where team needs to meet onsite in St. Louis. Notice could be the day before to meet the next day in the office, but then may be off site the rest of the week or for the next 2 weeks
Duration :: Contract (W2 Only)Requirements:
- Director-level person / personality
- Executive-level communication skills required
- work with Executive leadership to communicate ideas,
- build trust with technical depth and collaborate.
- Technical - Most Senior Data Engineer / Principal Architect level role
- 3+ years Snowflake experience
- Expert: Snowflake, SnowPark (data science), Data ingestion (SnowPipe, Azure Data Factory)
- Programming : Scala (build custom data pipelines, Python (data modeling), PySpark
- Azure preferred, AWS or GCP is acceptable.
- Expert building Data Pipelines
- Must Start October 1st
- Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable data lakehouse platforms using modern tools like Databricks, Snowflake, and Apache Iceberg.
- Develop and optimize high-performance batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines, with a strong focus on Snowflake, Snowpipe, and Snowpark.
- Act as a technical leader, managing architecture discussions and leading conversations with both internal teams and external clients.
- Implement and enforce data quality, governance, and security best practices to ensure data integrity and compliance.
- Identify opportunities to integrate platform-level AI tools (like those in Snowflake, Databricks, and Fabric) to outpace traditional data science efforts and deliver faster, more impactful insights.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists and business stakeholders, to deliver high-quality, business-critical datasets.
- Slowflake experience/proficiency is critical.
- Azure experience is preferred, but Google Cloud and AWS okay
- 5+ years of professional experience in data engineering.
- Strong technical leadership and excellent communication skills, with proven experience in a client-facing role.
- Deep expertise in cloud data platforms, with significant hands-on experience in Snowflake.
- Demonstrated experience with data lakehouse design patterns and modern data architectures.