Role: Senior Data Engineer
Experience: 6+ Years
Employment Type: Employee
Location: Hybrid Chennai

Role Overview

Seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to support a strategic SAP HANA to Snowflake Data Platform Modernization initiative. The role focuses on cloud data engineering, ETL/ELT pipeline development, data modeling, Snowflake architecture, and enterprise-scale data migration. The candidate will collaborate with Data Architects, SAP HANA SMEs, BI teams, and business stakeholders to deliver a robust migration strategy.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and develop scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for SAP HANA to Snowflake migration.
- Build Proof of Concepts (PoCs) to validate migration approaches, performance, and scalability.
- Implement Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold).
- Develop historical and incremental data loading frameworks using CDC strategies.
- Create reusable transformation logic using SQL, Python, PySpark, and dbt.
- Design and optimize Snowflake components including databases, schemas, virtual warehouses, stages, streams, tasks, and Snowpipe.
- Implement SCD Type 1 & Type 2 and dimensional modeling techniques.
- Perform data profiling, validation, reconciliation, and quality assessments.
- Optimize SQL queries, ELT processes, and Snowflake performance/cost efficiency.
- Evaluate and recommend tools such as dbt,



Matillion, Fivetran, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, and Apache Airflow.
- Collaborate with architects and SAP HANA SMEs on mappings and transformation strategies.
- Create technical design documents, engineering standards, and implementation guidelines.
- Mentor Data Engineers and participate in code reviews, architecture reviews, and Agile ceremonies. [Senior Data Engineer | PDF]

Mandatory Skills

- Snowflake Architecture, Snowpipe, Streams & Tasks, Virtual Warehouses
- SQL
- Python
- PySpark
- ETL/ELT Development
- Change Data Capture (CDC)
- dbt
- SAP HANA
- Medallion Architecture
- Dimensional Data Modeling
- SCD Type 1 & Type 2
- Cloud Platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP)
- Git
- Azure DevOps
- Jira
- Confluence

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field
- Experience implementing enterprise-scale Snowflake solutions
- SnowPro Core Certification (Preferred)
- Cloud Certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Experience in Agile/Scrum environments

Nice to Have

- Snowpark
- AI/ML Data Engineering
- Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Prompt Engineering
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- DataOps
- CI/CD for Data Platforms
- Experience working with globally distributed teams

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