Senior Data Engineer - Snowflake AI Platform (Hybrid)

Allura Partners; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 189,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid set-up

Early access to Snowflake AI tooling

Room to influence platform evolution

Job summary

Allura Partners is seeking a senior engineer to deepen Snowflake-based data pipelines and integrate AI workloads. You’ll extend the Snowflake environment to run AI alongside data, collaborating with AI engineers and business teams to deliver practical solutions.

You’ll use Snowflake, SQL, dbt and Python, with exposure to Snowpark and Cortex AI features. The role offers a hybrid setup in Sydney and room to influence platform evolution as AI tooling expands.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on Snowflake, SQL, dbt and Python.
• Has used Cortex or other Snowflake AI functions on live work.
• Some experience with LLMs, embeddings or vector search.
• A strong data modeller, with Data Vault knowledge preferred.
• Understands how data needs to be shaped for ML, including features.
• Works with AI coding assistants and wants to help the team do the same.
• Can talk about technical work in plain language.

Responsibilities

• Develop data pipelines and products in Snowflake, adding AI enrichment as data lands.
• Run LLM and vector search workloads inside the platform instead of moving data out.
• Create data models that serve reporting and AI equally well, drawing on Data Vault and dimensional methods.
• Set up the monitoring and alerts that keep AI and data workloads healthy.
• Help AI engineers connect platform outputs to applications, and guide business teams from idea to working solution.

Skills

Snowflake

SQL

dbt

Python

Snowpark

LLMs

Embeddings

Vector search

Data Vault

Tools

Cortex

Job description

Allura Partners is seeking a senior engineer to deepen Snowflake-based data pipelines and integrate AI workloads. You’ll extend the Snowflake environment to run AI alongside data, collaborating with AI engineers and business teams to deliver practical solutions.

You’ll use Snowflake, SQL, dbt and Python, with exposure to Snowpark and Cortex AI features. The role offers a hybrid setup in Sydney and room to influence platform evolution as AI tooling expands.