Senior Snowflake Architect & Data Platform Leader

Nordea; Helsinki; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Wellness benefits

Professional development

Job summary

Nordea Group Technology is seeking a senior data engineer to own Snowflake architecture and drive transformation across the data platform. You will set standards for transformations, lead governance, and collaborate with credit risk and finance teams to align technical solutions with business needs.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to CI/CD, and design scalable data sharing patterns while optimizing performance and cost.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering with Snowflake production scale experience
• Strong data analysis skills and ability to design technical solutions
• SnowPro Core certified; SnowPro Advanced preferred
• Deep SQL mastery including QUALIFY, recursive CTEs, and VARIANT handling
• Snowpark (Python/Scala) experience; know when to use it vs SQL
• Strong understanding of Snowflake internals: micro-partitions, clustering, caching
• Experience with governance: RBAC, masking policies, row access policies
• Data sharing: Secure Data Sharing, Reader Accounts, cross-region replication
• CI/CD for Snowflake: schemachange, Terraform, or equivalent
• Financial services or banking domain knowledge influences architecture

Responsibilities

• Set technical standards for Snowflake transformations and governance
• Deep dive into data to design and lead technical solutions
• Contribute to and review requirement analysis
• Performance work: profiling, micro-partition analysis, clustering, warehouse rightsizing
• Own data modeling decisions: schema design and partitioning
• Lead governance: RBAC, masking policies, row access policies
• Design and evolve data sharing architecture (Secure Views, Reader Accounts)
• Drive CI/CD standards for Snowflake (schemachange, Terraform)
• Mentor mid-level engineers and run design reviews
• Partner with team lead on PI Planning and roadmaps

Skills

Data engineering

Snowflake

SQL mastery

Snowpark

Governance & RBAC

Data sharing

CI/CD for Snowflake

Banking domain knowledge

Cloud data architecture

Education

Snowflake certification (SnowPro Core)

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Terraform

Schemachange

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Nordea Group Technology is seeking a senior data engineer to own Snowflake architecture and drive transformation across the data platform. You will set standards for transformations, lead governance, and collaborate with credit risk and finance teams to align technical solutions with business needs.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to CI/CD, and design scalable data sharing patterns while optimizing performance and cost.