Snowflake Data Engineer

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking a Snowflake Data Engineer to drive innovative data solutions and enhance customer experiences. The role focuses on building scalable data architectures and automating data pipelines while ensuring data security and compliance. Ideal candidates will have strong ETL design experience and technical proficiency in programming languages. The position offers a remote-first work culture.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of data usage and dependencies.
• Experience extracting value from large scale data.
• Experience in a governed and regulatory environment.

Responsibilities

• Support tenants to build innovative data driven solutions.
• Drive customer value by solving complex business problems.
• Build advanced automation of data engineering pipelines.

Skills

ETL technical design

Data quality testing

Data warehousing

Data modelling

Programming languages

Modern code development practices

Strong communication skills

Job description

Overview

Join us as a Snowflake Data Engineer. You'll be the voice of our customers, using data to tell their stories and put them at the heart of all decision-making. We'll look to you to drive the build of effortless, digital first customer experiences. If you're ready for a new challenge and want to make a far-reaching impact through your work, this could be the opportunity you're looking for.

What you'll do

As a Snowflake Data Engineer, you'll be looking to simplify our organisation by supporting our tenants to build innovative data driven solutions through data pipelines, modelling and ETL design, inspiring to be commercially successful while keeping our customers, and the bank's data, safe and secure.

You'll drive customer value by understanding complex business problems and requirements to correctly apply the most appropriate and reusable tool to gather and build data solutions. You'll support our strategic direction by engaging with the data engineering community to deliver opportunities, along with carrying out complex data engineering tasks to build a scalable data architecture.

• Building advanced automation of data engineering pipelines through removal of manual stages
• Embedding new data techniques into our business through role modelling, training, and experiment design oversight
• Delivering a clear understanding of data platform costs to meet your departments cost saving and income targets
• Delivering clear Snowflake Domain costs to our tenants to enable them to improve the efficiency of their solutions
• Utilising platform data and metadata to improve the operation, cost and security of the Snowflake platform
• Developing solutions for streaming data ingestion and transformations in line with our streaming strategy

The skills you’ll need

To thrive in this role, you\'ll need a strong understanding of data usage and dependencies and experience of extracting value and features from large scale data. You\'ll also bring practical experience of programming languages alongside knowledge of data and software engineering fundamentals.

Additionally, you\'ll need:

• Experience of ETL technical design, data quality testing, cleansing and monitoring, data sourcing, and exploration and analysis
• Data warehousing and data modelling capabilities
• A good understanding of modern code development practices
• Experience of working in a governed, and regulatory environment
• Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage and manage a wide range of stakeholders

Hours: 35

Job Posting Closing Date: 16/09/2025

Ways of Working: Remote First