Senior Snowflake Data Engineer - Snowpipe & SnowSQL
Cognizant
Date: 1 week ago
City: Mississauga, Ontario
Contract type: Full time

We are looking for a Senior Snowflake Data Engineer to join our AIA team. The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in Snowflake, SnowSQL, Airflow along with proficiency in Hive and Big Data Analytics to drive data modernization initiatives effectively.
We Are Cognizant Artificial Intelligence
Digital technologies, including analytics and AI, give companies a once-in-a-generation opportunity to perform orders of magnitude better than ever before. However, clients need new business models built from analyzing customers and business operations at every angle to really understand them. With the power to apply artificial intelligence and data science to business decisions via enterprise data management solutions, we help leading companies prototype, refine, validate, and scale the most desirable products and delivery models to enterprise scale within weeks.
In This Role, You Will
Consider what transferrable experience and skills make you a unique applicant and help us see how you'd be beneficial to this role.
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
Working Arrangements
We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client office in Toronto. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various well-being programs.
Note: The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.
We Are Cognizant Artificial Intelligence
Digital technologies, including analytics and AI, give companies a once-in-a-generation opportunity to perform orders of magnitude better than ever before. However, clients need new business models built from analyzing customers and business operations at every angle to really understand them. With the power to apply artificial intelligence and data science to business decisions via enterprise data management solutions, we help leading companies prototype, refine, validate, and scale the most desirable products and delivery models to enterprise scale within weeks.
In This Role, You Will
- Design and implement data integration processes from legacy systems to Snowflake.
- Develop and maintain ETL pipelines using Snowflake, SnowSQL, and Airflow.
- Monitor and optimize the performance of data queries and processes.
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of data processes and workflows.
- Develop and manage dashboards and reports using Tableau.
- 7+ Years of experience as a Snowflake Data Engineer on the projects of Data Warehousing,
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in Data Transformation from legacy systems (Netezza, DB2, Oracle, SQL-server) to cloud DW-Snowflake & Data Modernization.
- Must have 2-5 years of hands-on experience working on Snowflake Cloud Data Platform (Snowflake data warehouse, SnowSQL, Airflow, Hive, Snow pipe, SQL developer, Big Data Analytics, Tableau & cloud services like Hive.
- Strong working knowledge on Snowflake Data Warehousing , Snowpipe, SnowSQL, Hive, Airflow.
- Strong Data Warehousing and ETL working experience.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud services.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- SnowPro Core Certification is a bonus.
- Banking and Financial Services industry experience preferred.
Consider what transferrable experience and skills make you a unique applicant and help us see how you'd be beneficial to this role.
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
Working Arrangements
We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client office in Toronto. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various well-being programs.
Note: The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.
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