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Senior Data Engineer - Snowflake

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Summary

A senior data engineer at Staples in Chennai who designs, builds, and tunes ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehouse models on Snowflake, writes high-performance SQL and Python, and supports deployments and monitoring while mentoring junior engineers.

Duties & Responsibilities:
  • Lead the design, development, and optimization of ETL/ELT pipelines and workflows
  • Write, tune, and optimize advanced SQL queries for large-scale data processing
  • Build and maintain data warehouses and data models (relational, dimensional, star schema)
  • Translate business requirements into robust, well-architected, and reusable data solutions
  • Partner with analysts, data scientists, and stakeholders to deliver trusted, actionable datasets
  • Implement and maintain unit tests, integration tests, and validation frameworks to ensure pipeline reliability
  • Document workflows, and design decisions to support knowledge sharing and operational continuity
  • Apply coding standards, CI/CD practices, version control, and peer code reviews to ensure high-quality deliverables
  • Proactively monitor, optimize, and troubleshoot pipelines for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
  • Support deployments and handle post-production monitoring and incident resolution
  • Mentor associate engineers, providing technical guidance and feedback


Requirements

Basic Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field
  • 4–7 years of hands-on experience in data engineering or related fields
  • Expertise in writing complex SQL queries, optimizing, using advanced functionals and turning the performance on cloud data warehouse environment.
  • Strong experience with data warehousing concepts, design, and implementation
  • Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with Snowflake or modern cloud data warehouse
  • Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in data modeling
  • Minimum 1 year of hands-on Python development (ETL/ELT scripting, OOP, automation)
  • Strong knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
  • Experience with orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, ADF, Luigi) for workflow management
  • Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor teams while managing multiple priorities
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Strong hands-on experience with data warehousing concepts, design, and implementation

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Hands-on experience with DBT (Data Build Tool) for data transformations
  • Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD best practices in data engineering
  • Exposure with real-time/streaming platforms (Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink)
  • Exposure to the e-commerce domain or large-scale B2B/B2C environments
  • Has the ability to break down problems and estimate time for development tasks
  • Experience mentoring and guiding junior engineers
  • Understands the technology landscape, up to date on current technology trends and new technology, brings new ideas to the team
  • Learns organization vision statement and decision-making framework. Able to understand how team and personal goals/objectives contribute to the organization vision

Skills

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