Strategic Snowflake Data Platform Architect

Insight Investment; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Investment is seeking an experienced Principal Snowflake Data Engineer to build a strategic data platform and drive data governance. You will shape the data strategy, work with Agile teams, and integrate Snowflake with evolving tooling to support advanced analytics across the business.

You will collaborate with multiple business areas, apply S-SDLC practices, and contribute to infrastructure-as-code efforts while staying current with Snowflake and big data innovations.

Qualifications

• Snowflake architecture and data platform design experience.
• End-to-end Snowflake pipelines with Snowpark or equivalent frameworks.
• DBT transformations and templating experience.
• Strong Python and SQL skills with performance focus.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design and implementation of a scalable data platform using Snowflake and complementary tooling.
• Help evolve the Insight Data Strategy and communicate outcomes to leadership to team level.
• Set firm-wide standards for ingesting, governing, transforming, persisting, and democratising data.
• Provide expertise in ELT pipeline performance optimisation.
• Enable adoption of advanced analytics & AI with best-in-class tooling.
• Evolve infrastructure-as-code in collaboration with cloud engineering.
• Align designs with internal data, privacy, security and compliance policies.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and recommend relevant advancements.

Skills

Snowflake

Python

SQL

Data engineering

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Agile

Docker

Kafka

AI engineering

Tools

DBT with Jinja

PySpark

Polars

Dask

GitHub Actions

TeamCity

Artifactory

Collibra

Iceberg

Arrow

Langchain

LlamaIndex

Pinecone

Job description

Insight Investment is seeking an experienced Principal Snowflake Data Engineer to build a strategic data platform and drive data governance. You will shape the data strategy, work with Agile teams, and integrate Snowflake with evolving tooling to support advanced analytics across the business.

You will collaborate with multiple business areas, apply S-SDLC practices, and contribute to infrastructure-as-code efforts while staying current with Snowflake and big data innovations.