Snowflake Tech Lead

Johannesburg - South Africa

Monthly Salary: ZAR 1 - 1

Experience Required: 5years

Posted on: 6 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

This is a remote position.

We are seeking a Snowflake Senior Developer to design develop and optimise data solutions on our cloud data platform. You will work closely with data engineers analysts and architects to deliver high-quality scalable data pipelines and models. Strong expertise in Snowflake ETL/ELT data modelling and data warehousing is essential.

Responsibilities

Snowflake Development: Build and optimise Snowflake objects (databases schemas tables views tasks streams resource monitors).

ETL/ELT Pipelines: Develop and maintain robust data pipelines using tools like dbt Airflow Azure Data Factory or similar.

Data Modelling: Implement dimensional models (star/snowflake schemas) handle SCDs and design efficient structures for analytics.

Performance Tuning: Optimise queries manage clustering caching and warehouse sizing for cost and speed.

Data Quality: Implement testing frameworks (dbt tests Great Expectations) and ensure data accuracy and freshness.

Security & Governance: Apply RBAC masking policies and comply with data governance standards.

Collaboration: Work with BI teams to ensure semantic alignment and support self-service analytics.

Documentation: Maintain clear technical documentation for pipelines models and processes.

Qualifications

Matric and a Degree in IT

Strong SQL skills (complex queries performance tuning) and proficiency in Python for data processing.

Experience with ETL/ELT tools (dbt Airflow ADF Informatica Matillion).

Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts (Kimball Data Vault normalization).

Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP acceptable).

Knowledge of data governance security and compliance (GDPR).

Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Skills

Experience with Snowpark UDFs dynamic tables and external tables.

Exposure to streaming/CDC (Kafka Fivetran Debezium).

BI tool integration (Power BI Tableau Looker).

Certifications: SnowPro Core or Advanced.

Required Skills:

Experience with Snowpark UDFs dynamic tables and external tables exposure to streaming/CDC BI tool integration SnowPro Core or Advanced.

Required Education:

Matric and a Degree in IT

This is a remote position.We are seeking a Snowflake Senior Developer to design develop and optimise data solutions on our cloud data platform. You will work closely with data engineers analysts and architects to deliver high-quality scalable data pipelines and models. Strong expertise in Snowfla...