Data Platform Engineer – Snowflake & DBT (Hybrid)

Cognizant; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Snowflake & DBT Data Engineer to manage and optimize our data platform, supporting analytical and business operations within asset management. You will administer Snowflake environments, implement DBT Core projects, and develop robust data pipelines across the organization.

Responsibilities include configuring Snowflake Tasks, developing DBT macros, and overseeing DBT Cloud deployments while collaborating with data engineers and analysts to translate business requirements

Qualifications

• Proficient in Snowflake administration, roles, warehouses, databases, and performance tuning.
• Strong DBT Core knowledge: models, tests, documentation, transformations.
• Experience with DBT Cloud: jobs, environments, execution policies, collaboration features.
• Advanced SQL and Python skills for data modeling and pipelines.
• Familiarity with GitHub-based collaboration and version control workflows.
• Understanding of asset management data contexts (trades, positions, valuations).
• Ability to work in a hybrid environment with onsite and remote teammates.

Responsibilities

• Manage Snowflake platforms for high availability, performance, and secure access.
• Perform DBT testing on Snowflake and develop robust DBT models.
• Configure Snowflake Tasks to orchestrate data pipelines and monitoring.
• Administer Snowflake accounts including roles, policies, and resource allocation.
• Develop DBT Core projects implementing robust transformations and data quality checks.
• Create DBT macros to standardize transformations across teams.
• Oversee DBT Cloud deployments including environments and run configurations.
• Collaborate with engineers to translate requirements into Snowflake schemas and models.
• Monitor data pipelines with logs and metrics, troubleshoot issues, implement remediation.
• Implement data security and governance, including masking policies and audited data sharing.
• Coordinate Snowflake/DBT integrations with enterprise tools for hybrid work.
• Document configurations and runbooks for onboarding and consistency.
• Drive optimization by analyzing platform utilization and performance trends.

Skills

Snowflake admin

DBT Core

DBT Cloud

SQL

Python

GitHub

Data governance

Asset management

Tools

PowerCenter

Teradata

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Snowflake & DBT Data Engineer to manage and optimize our data platform, supporting analytical and business operations within asset management. You will administer Snowflake environments, implement DBT Core projects, and develop robust data pipelines across the organization.

Responsibilities include configuring Snowflake Tasks, developing DBT macros, and overseeing DBT Cloud deployments while collaborating with data engineers and analysts to translate business requirements