Senior Data Platform Engineer - Snowflake & Pipelines

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WHY JOIN US

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ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to operate and improve a Snowflake-based enterprise data platform in a regulated healthcare environment.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

- Provide senior technical ownership for the Data Platform service tower during the LatAm coverage window, including day-to-day operations, complex troubleshooting, and L2/L3 escalation.

- Operate and improve Snowflake production and non-production environments, including warehouse configuration and sizing, performance and consumption monitoring, object lifecycle, environment hygiene, and support for production changes.

- Administer data access within established controls, including users, roles, service accounts, secrets, and credential rotation, while maintaining least-privilege and audit-ready practices.

- Operate and improve data ingestion across Fivetran, HVR where applicable, and custom pipelines, including connector configuration, scheduling, source onboarding, schema-change coordination, failure recovery, backfills, and dependency management.

- Design, build, and maintain reliable pipelines and dbt models across RAW, CURATED, and CONSUMPTION layers, with appropriate testing, documentation, lineage, version control, and CI/CD practices.

- Support AWS S3 data-lake operations, including raw and landing-zone workflows, lifecycle and retention controls, access patterns, logging, ingestion failures, and coordination with downstream Snowflake workloads.

- Support Argo Workflows and Kubernetes-hosted data workloads in close coordination with the Cloud / DevOps team, including scheduling, troubleshooting, deployment, recovery, and capacity dependencies.

- Define and improve data quality and observability standards, including freshness, zero-row, row-count growth, null, duplicate, schema-drift, and referential-integrity checks.

- Expand end-to-end monitoring and lineage using tools such as SYNQ, dbt, Snowflake audit data, Splunk, and the agreed alerting stack, linking actionable alerts to evidence and runbooks.

- Lead or support major data incidents, root-cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and preventive actions across ingestion, orchestration, Snowflake, and downstream Tableau dependencies.

- Support Tableau Cloud operations where upstream data, connectivity, permissions, extracts, or refresh failures require Data Platform investigation.

- Identify and deliver standardization, automation, reliability, performance, and cost improvements, including migration of suitable legacy or custom extraction patterns toward agreed golden paths.

- Execute work through controlled incident, request, access, change, and release processes using established service-management workflows.

- Create and maintain runbooks, operating procedures, architecture context, ownership information, recovery procedures, and knowledge-transfer materials.

- Mentor Middle-level engineers, review technical work, improve team practices, and ensure effective handoffs across the distributed service team.

- Participate in the Data Platform on-call rotation for critical incidents outside staffed service hours.

MUST HAVES

- 5+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering or Data Platform Engineering .

- Strong hands-on experience operating and developing solutions on Snowflake , including data-layer design, warehouse performance, access patterns, and production troubleshooting.

- Advanced SQL skills and strong experience with dbt for transformation, testing, documentation, lineage, and controlled deployment.

- Experience operating managed ingestion tools such as Fivetran or HVR and supporting custom data-ingestion pipelines.

- Hands-on experience with AWS data services , particularly S3 and event-driven or file-based ingestion patterns.

- Experience orchestrating and troubleshooting data workloads with Argo Workflows on Kubernetes , or comparable workflow-orchestration technologies.

- Proficiency in Python or a comparable language for data engineering, automation, and operational tooling.

- Strong understanding of data modeling, pipeline dependencies, schema evolution, backfills, data validation, and production data quality.

- Experience with observability, logging, alerting, and incident-management practices for production data platforms.

- Demonstrated ability to lead complex incident resolution, perform root-cause analysis, and convert findings into preventive improvements.

- Ability to make well-reasoned technical decisions, identify tradeoffs, estimate work, and guide improvements across a complex platform.

- Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating effectively with Cloud / DevOps, Analytics, Security, Governance, and business stakeholders.

- Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to work directly with client stakeholders.

- Full availability to work from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM Pacific Time and participate in an agreed on-call rotation .

NICE TO HAVES

- Hands-on experience with a data-specific observability platform.

- Experience supporting Tableau Cloud administration, data-source connectivity, extracts, scheduled refreshes, or production dashboard dependencies.

- Familiarity with Snowflake cost optimization, audit logging, tasks, stored procedures, and environment rationalization.

- Experience migrating legacy ingestion or orchestration patterns such as Boomi or AWS Data Pipeline to modern managed or Kubernetes-based solutions.

- Experience with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code practices supporting data platforms.

- Experience with service-management and change-control tools such as Freshservice and Jira.

- Familiarity with HIPAA, GDPR, FDA-related controls, least-privilege access, separation of duties, and audit-ready operational practices.

PERKS AND BENEFITS

- Professional growth : Accelerate your professional journey with mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps.

- Competitive compensation : We match your ever-growing skills, talent, and contributions with competitive USD-based compensation and budgets for education, fitness, and team activities.

- A selection of exciting projects : Join projects with modern solutions development and top-tier clients that include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading product brands.

- Flextime : Tailor your schedule for an optimal work-life balance, by having the options of working from home and going to the office – whatever makes you the happiest and most productive.