Snowflake Engineer

Snowflake Database Engineer

Responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing the organization's Snowflake data warehouse to ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and security while supporting data engineering and analytics initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Administration: Manage Snowflake databases, schemas, roles, and warehouses; optimize compute resources; monitor performance; automate tasks using SQL/Python; enforce security policies.

Data Integration: Support ETL/ELT pipelines (DBT/ADF), data ingestion from cloud/APIs/databases, and efficient transformation strategies.

Performance Tuning: Optimize queries, implement clustering/partitioning, and manage warehouse sizing for cost/performance balance.

Security & Compliance: Ensure encryption, masking, backups, disaster recovery, and compliance with standards.

Collaboration: Partner with engineers/analysts, troubleshoot issues, provide best practices, and stay current with Snowflake updates.

Requirements:

Bachelor's in CS or related field

35+ years DBA/Data Engineering experience; 2+ years Snowflake

Strong SQL, performance tuning, data modeling

Experience with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS) and ETL tools (DBT, ADF)

Preferred: SnowPro certification, scripting (Python), CI/CD (Terraform), BI tools (Tableau, Power BI).

Apex Systems offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach.

Full Time