Principal Data Platform Engineer — Hybrid (San Diego)

EDF; San Diego (CA); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Comprehensive health coverage

401k matching

Paid parental leave

Learning & career development

Mentorship program

Job summary

EDF power solutions North America is seeking a Principal Engineer, Data Platform in San Diego, CA. You will own end-to-end data architectures, deliver a modern cloud data platform, and guide engineers and stakeholders from source systems to analytics-ready data products.

The role requires 8+ years in data engineering, strong AWS and Snowflake expertise, and leadership to mentor teams while aligning with business goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 8+ years in data engineering or data platform roles, with a track record of delivering production-grade data platforms and leading teams.
• Proficiency with AWS and Snowflake data warehousing and related services.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements cloud-native data integrations using APIs and AWS services to bring data into Snowflake from various sources.
• Builds and maintains data transformation models using dbt, creating dimensional models and data marts.
• Manages Snowflake platform infrastructure including environment setup, performance optimization, cost management, security configuration, and access controls.

Skills

Python

dbt

SQL

Data Modeling

Cloud & Data Warehousing

CI/CD

Git

Agile/Scrum

Leadership/Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Terraform

CDK

CloudFormation

Ansible

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

SAP S/4HANA

SAP HANA

Job description

EDF power solutions North America is seeking a Principal Engineer, Data Platform in San Diego, CA. You will own end-to-end data architectures, deliver a modern cloud data platform, and guide engineers and stakeholders from source systems to analytics-ready data products.

The role requires 8+ years in data engineering, strong AWS and Snowflake expertise, and leadership to mentor teams while aligning with business goals.