Senior Data Engineer: Snowflake & Cloud Data Platform

Zig Zag Offshoring; Philippines; Remote; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

ZigZag is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud-based data platforms that enable trusted analytics, operational reporting, and data-driven decision making across the organisation. This role will own Snowflake architecture, develop robust ELT/ETL pipelines, and drive governance, performance, and cost optimisation at scale.

You will partner with product, engineering, and analytics teams to deliver impactful data solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or analytics engineering.
• Experience designing multi-region enterprise-scale data platform architectures.
• Strong SQL and data transformation optimization skills.
• Experience building robust ELT/ETL pipelines and orchestration workflows.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale cloud-native data platforms and pipelines.
• Lead Snowflake architecture, performance tuning, security, and governance.
• Develop scalable ELT/ETL pipelines from multiple sources.
• Create maintainable data models and semantic layers for analytics.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Ops, Finance, and Analytics stakeholders.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering standards.

Skills

5+ years data engineering

Snowflake enterprise

SQL optimization

ELT/ETL pipelines

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Data governance & security

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical problem-solving

Multi-region architecture

Platform reliability & cost efficiency

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Fivetran

Matillion

Terraform

Job description

ZigZag is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and scale cloud-based data platforms that enable trusted analytics, operational reporting, and data-driven decision making across the organisation. This role will own Snowflake architecture, develop robust ELT/ETL pipelines, and drive governance, performance, and cost optimisation at scale.

You will partner with product, engineering, and analytics teams to deliver impactful data solutions.