Snowflake Platform Engineer
SCI SOLUTIONS GLOBAL
- Location
- Onsite (Wilmington, Delaware)
- Compensation
- $60/hr
- Employment
- Contract
- Level
- Senior Level
About the role
SCI Solutions Global is seeking a Snowflake Platform Engineer to design and maintain cloud-native data pipelines and services on AWS and Snowflake. The role focuses on building scalable data platforms, implementing infrastructure as code, and optimizing performance for enterprise data solutions.
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Title: Snowflake Platform Engineer
Location:
Wilmington, DE
Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, or GC EAD
preferred
W2 Requirement- No C2C, 1099, or third-party profiles accepted.
Our Client is seeking an experienced Snowflake Platform Engineer with strong expertise in AWS data lake services, Snowflake, and Python-based data engineering. The ideal candidate will have experience designing, building, and operating scalable cloud data platforms, data pipelines, and migration solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain cloud-native data pipelines and services on AWS and Snowflake.
Implement data lake architectures using AWS Lake Formation, Glue, Step Functions, and Lambda.
Develop Python, Shell, and UNIX-based solutions for data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration.
Create and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform for AWS and Snowflake resources.
Optimize Snowflake performance and implement Snowflake Cortex features and Streamlit applications.
Enable secure data movement using AWS CLI, Python APIs, Spark, and Boto3.
Support analytics and compute services, including Athena, S3 Select, EMR, Redshift, S3, and EC2.
Implement CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket/Git and Jenkins, including approval workflows through ServiceNow.
Monitor and troubleshoot applications using AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, logging, and tracing.
Schedule and orchestrate workloads using Control-M or similar tools.
Required Skills & Qualifications
6+ years of hands-on software development and data engineering experience.
Strong proficiency in Python, Shell scripting, and UNIX.
Extensive experience with Snowflake, including performance tuning and data modeling.
Experience with Snowflake Cortex and Streamlit.
Hands-on experience with AWS data lake services: Lake Formation, Glue, Step Functions, and Lambda.
Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code across AWS and Snowflake environments.
Data movement experience using AWS CLI, Python APIs, Spark, and Boto3.
Familiarity with Athena, S3 Select, EMR, Redshift, S3, and EC2.
Knowledge of workload scheduling tools; Control-M preferred.
CI/CD experience with Bitbucket/Git and Jenkins.
Familiarity with ServiceNow change management.
Experience with monitoring and log tracing using CloudWatch and Splunk.
Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of AI agentic workflows and MCP servers.
Familiarity with Databricks or other AI/ML platforms.
Experience delivering cloud data solutions in Agile teams.