Senior Snowflake Data Engineer — CI/CD & Airflow Expert

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

Job summary

Nordea is hiring for a Senior Data Engineer to join the Large Data Foundation within Group Technology. You will design and implement transformation pipelines on Snowflake, ensuring clean, governed analytics datasets for risk model development.

Bring 8+ years in data engineering with 2+ years Snowflake production experience, plus strong SQL, Snowpark, Python/Scala, and Airflow skills. Hybrid work model offered with emphasis on collaboration and auditability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or related field.
• 2+ years with Snowflake in production.
• Strong SQL including window functions, QUALIFY, MERGE and recursive CTEs.
• Experience with Snowpark (Python or Scala).
• Understanding of Snowflake execution model and clustering.
• Proficiency in Python or Scala for pipelines.
• Airflow experience (DAGs, sensors, retries).
• Comfort with Git, Bitbucket, and CI/CD deployments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build transformation jobs in Snowflake (SQL stored procedures, Snowpark, Dynamic Tables).
• Analyze business and data requirements before coding.
• Translate requirements into clean, maintainable transformation logic.
• Apply Snowflake best practices: clustering, micro-partition awareness, query optimization, rightsizing.
• Contribute to data modeling decisions (schema design, naming conventions, partitioning strategies).
• Own CI/CD for deliverables (branching, deployments, promotion via Bitbucket and Jenkins).
• Write and maintain Airflow DAGs that orchestrate Snowflake workloads.
• Contribute to the data exchange layer (Database Roles, Secure Views, cross-account sharing).
• Review code, pair with team members, contribute to team standards.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Snowflake experience

Python/Scala

Airflow

Git/CI/CD

Data modeling

Performance tuning

Tools

Snowpark

Git

Bitbucket

Airflow

Job description

Nordea is hiring for a Senior Data Engineer to join the Large Data Foundation within Group Technology. You will design and implement transformation pipelines on Snowflake, ensuring clean, governed analytics datasets for risk model development.

Bring 8+ years in data engineering with 2+ years Snowflake production experience, plus strong SQL, Snowpark, Python/Scala, and Airflow skills. Hybrid work model offered with emphasis on collaboration and auditability.