Senior Snowflake Data Engineer

Itero Group is a Women-Owned Small Business focused on simplifying complex transformations. We empower clients in the private and government sectors to become more optimized, digitally enabled, and data-driven organizations through our comprehensive business consulting and innovative delivery solutions.

Itero Group's dedicated team members are experienced thought leaders, tenacious workers, and creative thinkers. We hire people who are passionate about being catalysts for change and empower people to express their ideas, create better practices, innovate better products, and become better professionals.

We have been named a Great Place to Work for six years and offer a competitive salary and benefits package.

Itero Group is seeking an experienced Senior Snowflake Data Engineer to support enterprise data modernization initiatives for leading Financial Services clients. This individual will design, develop, and optimize cloud-based data platforms using Snowflake while partnering with business stakeholders, architects, and analytics teams to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing data solutions.

The ideal candidate has deep experience building enterprise data pipelines, implementing cloud data warehouses, and supporting regulatory and financial reporting initiatives within banking, insurance, capital markets, or asset management organizations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Snowflake.
• Build and optimize ELT/ETL processes to ingest data from multiple enterprise systems.
• Develop dimensional data models, data marts, and curated analytical datasets.
• Optimize Snowflake performance through clustering, partitioning, workload management, and cost optimization.
• Implement data quality, lineage, governance, and security best practices.
• Develop solutions utilizing Snowpark, stored procedures, streams, tasks, and dynamic tables where appropriate.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand reporting and analytical requirements.
• Build reusable data frameworks supporting Finance, Risk, Compliance, Treasury, and Regulatory Reporting.
• Develop automated orchestration using Airflow, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, or similar technologies.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and code reviews.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of Data Engineering experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on Snowflake development.
• Strong SQL expertise including query optimization.
• Strong Python development experience.
• Experience building enterprise ELT/ETL pipelines.
• Experience with cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, GCP (preferred).
• Experience with dbt, Airflow, Git, CI/CD, Terraform (preferred).
• Experience working with structured and semi-structured data.
• Knowledge of data modeling (Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, Kimball).
• Experience with REST APIs and data integration.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.

Financial Services Experience Required

Candidates should possess experience supporting one or more of the following:

• Banking
• Commercial Banking
• Investment Banking
• Capital Markets
• Asset Management
• Wealth Management
• Insurance
• FinTech

Consulting Experience

• Experience working in consulting environments such as PwC, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, Accenture, Slalom, or similar.
• Ability to gather requirements directly from business stakeholders.
• Experience leading client workshops and solution design sessions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong presentation and stakeholder management abilities.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Generous PTO and paid holidays.
• 401(k) plan with company match and auto-enrollment.
• Short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, and AD&D insurance.
• Voluntary benefits including pet insurance and student loan assistance.
• FSAs, HSAs, wellness programs, and additional work-life balance benefits.

Itero Group is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, physical or mental disability, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, veteran status or political affiliation.