Snowflake Data Engineer

Location: Remote, USA
Employment type: Contract
Indicative rate: $46–$56/hr

Contract Snowflake Data Engineer roles focus on developing and optimizing cloud data warehouses and the pipelines that load and transform their data. Work may include integrating enterprise sources, building analytical models, and improving query and warehouse performance. Project environments may use additional cloud, orchestration, and transformation tools. Candidates should be comfortable delivering maintainable data solutions and supporting ongoing platform needs.

Core skills

• Snowflake
• SQL
• Python
• ETL/ELT
• Data warehousing
• Data pipelines
• Data modeling
• Cloud data platforms

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience building or supporting data solutions on Snowflake.
• Strong SQL skills, including developing or optimizing queries and data transformations.
• Experience designing, developing, or maintaining ETL/ELT data pipelines.
• Experience integrating data from multiple source systems.
• Experience with data warehouse design, data modeling, or analytics datasets.
• Ability to troubleshoot data issues and optimize pipeline or query performance.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Python, stored procedures, or user-defined functions.
• Experience with Matillion or another data integration and orchestration tool.
• Experience with AWS, dbt, or IBM DataStage.
• Experience with Snowflake security controls, role-based access, or warehouse configuration.