Contract - Senior Snowflake Data Engineer
FinTech / Trading | London | Hybrid 3 days in office
Up to £850/day
Duration: 12 months+
I’m working with a global trading firm looking for a Senior Snowflake Data Engineer to help build and optimise their enterprise data platform.
This role sits just below Architecture level and focuses on hands‑on implementation, optimisation, and operation of Snowflake‑based data solutions.
Key focus:
- Design and maintain Snowflake data models, schemas, and pipelines
- Build and orchestrate ETL/ELT workflows using Dagster or Airflow
- Develop and manage dbt data models (dimensional and Data Vault)
- Implement Terraform-based infrastructure automation for Snowflake resources
- Integrate secure access using OAuth / OIDC authentication
- Optimise Snowflake performance and cost efficiency
- Ingest and transform data from multiple internal and external systems
Looking for:
- Strong hands‑on Snowflake experience (development, optimisation, fundamentals of administration)
- Experience with dbt for modelling, testing, and deployment
- Knowledge of Data Vault 2.0 and dimensional modelling
- Experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation
- Familiarity with Dagster or Airflow orchestration
- Strong SQL and Python (or Java) skills
- Experience working with AWS (S3, IAM)
Must haves: experience with Kafka, Denodo, or financial markets /trading.
If you’re interested (or know someone who might be), please apply immediately.
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