Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RIT Solutions, Inc. is recruiting for a client seeking an experienced Snowflake Data Engineer to optimize and stabilize a cloud data platform. The role focuses on designing integrations, tuning performance, reducing costs, improving reliability, and establishing operational best practices across Snowflake and AWS infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and validate Snowflake integrations with Amazon S3, Apache Iceberg, and Apache Polaris
• Analyze workloads, query performance, warehouse utilization, and consumption patterns to identify optimization opportunities
• Implement performance-tuning and cost-optimization strategies across databases, warehouses, pipelines, and dbt workloads
• Review platform incidents and workload failures to improve reliability, resiliency, monitoring, and operational controls
• Support workload benchmarking and placement assessments across Snowflake and AWS services
• Establish optimization recommendations, platform guardrails, and measurable cost-efficiency improvements
• Troubleshoot data pipeline issues and ensure compliance with Snowflake security and access control standards
• Monitor platform health and recommend operational best practices for credit consumption and concurrency management

Skills

• 8–10 years of data engineering and cloud platform experience
• Expert-level proficiency with Snowflake platform architecture, SQL, and workload management
• Hands-on experience with query performance tuning, virtual warehouse optimization, clustering, and caching strategies
• Strong knowledge of storage optimization, credit consumption analysis, and concurrency management
• Proven expertise in Snowflake security, access controls, and data sharing configurations
• Solid understanding of cloud data architecture and integration patterns with AWS services
• Demonstrated ability to monitor systems, troubleshoot complex issues, and implement operational improvements
• Experience designing and validating integrations with Apache Iceberg, Apache Polaris, and S3-based data lakes
• Remote Ok, preferred NY Locals

Benefits

• Remote work is allowed; New York locals are preferred.

Company Overview

Company H1B Sponsorship