Cloud Data Engineer

Role: Cloud Data Engineer - Snowflake Platform

Experience: 5+ Years

Location: Pune

Skillsets:

Must have - AWS, Snowflake, Python

Skills - Data Structure, CORTEX, GenAI, LLM, RAG

Required Skills & Qualifications

Snowflake Expertise

• Strong hands-on experience in Snowflake architecture and administration.

• Experience designing Snowflake-native assets (UDFs, stored procedures, Snowpark, tasks, streams).

• Knowledge of Snowflake performance tuning and cost optimization.

• Understanding of security concepts (RBAC, masking policies, row-level security)

• Experience with Snowflake Cortex functions.

• Knowledge of LLM-based transformations within SQL.

• Understanding of embeddings and vector search concepts.

• Experience building AI-enriched data pipelines

Python Expertise

• Strong proficiency in Python for building Snowflake assets.

• Deep understanding of core data structures (lists, dictionaries, sets, tuples).

• Knowledge of OOP concepts and clean code practices.

• Experience creating utilities, reusable modules, and custom handlers.

• Error handling, logging frameworks, and modular design.

• Familiarity with packaging, dependency management, and virtual environments

• Knowledge of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

• Experience building AI utilities inside data platforms

Data Engineering Fundamentals

• Strong SQL skills.

• Experience with ETL/ELT pipeline design.

• Knowledge of data modeling techniques.

• Experience with data validation and quality frameworks.

• Understanding of distributed data processing concepts.

AWS

• Experience with S3, IAM, Lambda, Glue, CloudWatch.

• Understanding of cloud security and networking basics.

• Experience integrating Snowflake with AWS/AZURE data services.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Snowpark (Python).

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.).

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).

• Familiarity with orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, etc.).

• Experience in building enterprise-grade data platforms.

Understanding data governance and compliance standards.

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering.

• hands-on Snowflake experience.

• Strong Python development background in production environment