Principal Engineer, Software - Accounting Tech
About the Role:
The Principal Engineer within the Accounting & Finance Technology domain will play a pivotal role in shaping next-generation financial data architecture. This role is focused on leveraging Snowflake, dbt, and contemporary data engineering practices to build scalable, trusted, and cost-optimized financial data solutions. You will partner closely with Finance and Accounting stakeholders to transform complex business requirements into robust financial systems that drive insights, compliance, and long-term growth.
What You Will Do:
- Architect & Lead Snowflake Solutions: Drive design and implementation of enterprise-grade data warehouse solutions in Snowflake, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance for finance and accounting use cases.
- Own dbt Data Modeling: Lead adoption and best practices in dbt for financial data transformations, lineage, and governance.
- Financial Systems Expertise: Translate complex accounting and financial concepts (e.g., revenue recognition, reconciliations, and double-entry principles)



into technical designs and data flows.
- Business Partnership: Collaborate directly with Finance and Accounting leaders to understand business drivers, risks, and reporting requirements; ensure technical solutions meet real-world business needs.
- Pipeline Development & Automation: Build and optimize robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Snowflake and dbt, integrating data from multiple enterprise and financial systems.
- Data Integrity & Compliance: Ensure data accuracy, auditability, and compliance with financial reporting requirements and internal controls.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance across teams, raising the bar for engineering standards, code quality, and delivery practices.
- Strategic Influence: Clearly communicate platform strategy, trade-offs, and recommendations to senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What You Will Bring:
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📌 Principal Engineer, Software (Hyderabad)
🏢 Talent500
📍 Hyderabad