Senior Data Engineer for Snowflake & Modern Data Platform

Zigzag Media; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,339,000 - 2,678,000; Full time

Job summary

ZigZag is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud-based data platforms enabling trusted analytics, operat ional reporting, and data-driven decisions. You will own Snowflake architecture, develop robust ELT/ETL pipelines, and drive governance, quality, and observability across data assets.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product engineering and analytics teams, delivering scalable data models and semantic layers to empower self-service analytics and BI tools like

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or related data platform roles.
• Experience designing multi-region and enterprise-scale data platform architectures.
• Strong experience driving performance optimisation and cloud cost efficiency across large-scale data workloads.
• Experience with Snowflake architecture, security, governance, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud-native data platforms and pipelines.
• Lead Snowflake architecture, optimization, security, and governance.
• Develop robust ELT/ETL pipelines ingesting data from multiple sources.
• Create reusable data frameworks and orchestration workflows.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code for data provisioning and management.
• Optimize performance and cost across storage, transformation, and queries.
• Support real-time and batch data processing requirements.
• Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders.

Skills

SQL

ELT/ETL pipelines

Data modelling

Data governance

Stakeholder engagement

Cloud platforms

Performance tuning

Analytics enablement

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Fivetran

Matillion

Job description

ZigZag is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud-based data platforms enabling trusted analytics, operat ional reporting, and data-driven decisions. You will own Snowflake architecture, develop robust ELT/ETL pipelines, and drive governance, quality, and observability across data assets.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product engineering and analytics teams, delivering scalable data models and semantic layers to empower self-service analytics and BI tools like