Overview
About Us:
Birlasoft, a global leader at the forefront of Cloud, AI, and Digital technologies, seamlessly blends domain expertise with enterprise solutions. The company’s consultative and design-thinking approach empowers societies worldwide, enhancing the efficiency and productivity of businesses. As part of the multibillion-dollar diversified CKA Birla Group, Birlasoft with its 12,000+ professionals, is committed to continuing the Group’s 170-year heritage of building sustainable communities.
Job Description - Data Engineer - Principa
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Experience: 10+ yea
rs Location: India, Hyderab
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Job Summ
aryWe are looking for a Snowflake Tech Lead with 10+ years of experience in data engineering, cloud platforms, and Snowflake implementations. This role involves leading technical teams, designing scalable Snowflake solutions, and optimizing data pipelines for performance and efficiency. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Snowflake, ETL/ELT processes, and cloud data architectu
re.
Key Responsibili
ties
1. Snowflake Development & Optimiz
- ationLead Snowflake implementation, including data modeling, warehouse design, and performance tu
- ning.Optimize SQL queries, stored procedures, and UDFs for high effici
- ency.Implement Snowflake best practices (clustering, partitioning, zero-copy clon
- ing).Manage virtual warehouses, resource monitors, and cost optimiza
tion.2. Data Pipeline & Integr
- ationDesign and deploy ETL/ELT pipelines using Snowflake, Snowpark, Coal
- esce.Integrate Snowflake with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau), APIs, and external data sou
- rces.Implement real-time and batch data ingestion (CDC, streaming, Snowp
ipe).3. Team Leadership & Mento
- rshipLead a team of data engineers, analysts, and developers in Snowflake proj
- ects.Conduct code reviews, performance tuning sessions, and technical trai
- ning.Collaborate with stakeholders, architects, and business teams to align solutions with requirem
ents.4. Security & Gover
- nanceConfigure RBAC, data masking, encryption, and row-level security in Snowf
- lake.Ensure compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, or SOC2 stand
- ards.Implement data quality checks, monitoring, and aler
ting.5. Cloud & DevOps Integr
- ationDeploy Snowflake in AWS,
- AzureAutomate CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure De
- vOps.Monitor and troubleshoot Snowflake environments using logging tools (Datadog, Spl
unk).
6. Additional
- SkillsVolumetric analysis of ECC
- tablesMapping of current Snowflake and Databricks wor
- kflowsIdentification of object dependencies and l
- ineageSchema comparison and mismatch categorization (S, M,
- L, XL)Map data flows from ECC to S/4HANA str
- uctureValidate schema compatibility and data flow int
- egrityLog issues and prepare remediatio
n plan
Required Skills & Qualifi
- cations10+ years in data engineering, cloud platforms, or database techno
- logies.5+ years of hands-on Snowflake development & administ
- ration.Expertise in Snowflake, Databricks, DBT, SQL, Python for data proc
- essing.Experience with Snowflake features (Snowpark, Streams & Tasks, Time T
- ravel).Knowledge of cloud data storage (S3, Blob) and data orchestration (Airflow
- , DBT).Certifications: Snowflake SnowPro Core/Ad
vanced.
Preferre
d SkillsKnowledge of DataOps, MLOps, and CI/CD pi
pelines.Familiarity with DBT, Airflow, SSIS &a
mp; IICS