Snowflake Data Engineer

Prophecy Technologies

$110K — $135K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering or a related field.
  • Proficiency with Snowflake and Palantir Foundry.
  • Strong understanding of data ingestion, integration, and transformation.
  • Knowledge of data modeling concepts, including data marts and semantic layers.
  • Experience with monitoring and troubleshooting data quality and performance issues.
  • Familiarity with analytics tools such as Power BI, Tableau, and ThoughtSpot.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable data pipelines for ingestion and transformation.
  • Utilize Snowflake and Palantir Foundry for data delivery and analytics support.
  • Build and optimize enterprise data models and data products.
  • Enable self-service analytics and decision intelligence through various platforms.
  • Monitor and improve data governance and operational reliability.
  • Manage data pipelines and address ETL/ELT and processing issues.
  • Ensure compliance with data governance policies and security requirements.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Retirement savings plan with company match.
  • Flexible working hours and remote work options.
  • Professional development opportunities and training.
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule.
Full Job Description
Role Overview:

This role focuses on designing, developing, and maintaining robust data pipelines and data models using Snowflake and Palantir Foundry to support analytics, reporting, and AI/ML initiatives. The engineer will be responsible for ensuring high-quality, reliable data delivery and optimizing data assets for governed consumption and business insights.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable data ingestion, integration, transformation, and orchestration pipelines across enterprise applications, cloud platforms, data warehouses, and operational systems.
  • Utilize technologies such as Snowflake, Palantir Foundry, Snowpipe, Snowpark, dbt, and related cloud-native tools to ensure trusted, high-quality, and reliable data delivery for analytics, reporting, and AI/ML initiatives.
  • Build and optimize enterprise data models, data marts, ontology-driven data products, semantic layers, and reusable data assets within Snowflake and Palantir Foundry.
  • Enable governed data consumption, self-service analytics, operational applications, decision intelligence, and business insights through platforms like Power BI, Tableau, and ThoughtSpot.
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve platform performance, data quality, lineage, governance, security, operational reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • Manage data pipelines, resolve ETL/ELT and data processing issues, and implement data observability and validation controls.
  • Ensure compliance with enterprise data standards, governance policies, security requirements, and operational SLAs.

Required Skills:
  • Proficiency with Snowflake and Palantir Foundry.
  • Experience with data ingestion, integration, transformation, and orchestration pipelines.
  • Familiarity with Snowpipe, Snowpark, and dbt.
  • Knowledge of enterprise data modeling, data marts, and semantic layers.
  • Experience with analytics platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, and ThoughtSpot.
  • Ability to monitor and troubleshoot platform performance, data quality, and governance issues.

Qualifications:
  • Effectively collaborate with business stakeholders, data architects, analysts, and cross-functional teams.
  • Provide technical guidance, coordinate priorities, and ensure successful delivery of analytics initiatives.
  • Drive work planning, effort estimation, risk management, and process improvement.
  • Ensure adherence to governance, quality standards, and project timelines.

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