Senior Data Engineer - Snowflake Platform (Greenfield)

Brandes Investment Partners; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

401(k) match and profit sharing

Health, dental, vision insurance

Fertility benefits

Life, disability, and pet insurance

Paid time off and holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Brandes Investment Partners is building a new Data Office and seeks a Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake) to join as a founding member. You’ll own the Snowflake platform, help shape architecture, engineering standards, and the data foundation supporting reporting, analytics and AI across the firm.

This hands-on role requires deep Snowflake, SQL and Python, plus experience with cloud data architectures, data security, and CI/CD.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• At least seven years of relevant data engineering experience and meaningful experience building and operating production cloud platforms.
• Experience with Snowflake, Terraform, Fivetran, Airflow or Dagster, dbt, Azure Data Lake Storage, data observability and lineage tools is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve Snowflake architecture including environments, databases, schemas, and virtual warehouses.
• Build ingestion and transformation pipelines from enterprise applications, SaaS platforms, custodians, market and reference data providers, APIs and other sources.
• Establish security, RBAC, observability, automated testing, Git and CI/CD practices.
• Help optimize platform performance, reliability and Snowflake cost management.
• Create reusable engineering patterns and standards that support internal teams and consulting partners.
• Review consultant-developed code and architecture while helping ensure knowledge stays within Brandes.
• Partner with Senior Analytics Engineer, Technology teams and business stakeholders to build durable data solutions.
• Write advanced SQL and Python for data pipelines and troubleshooting.
• Set the technical bar and engineering standards.
• Collaborate effectively with technical teams, business stakeholders and outside consulting partners

Skills

Advanced SQL

Python

Data modeling

Observability

Data security

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or related field

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Snowflake

Terraform

Fivetran

Airflow

Dagster

dbt

Azure Data Lake Storage

Job description

Brandes Investment Partners is building a new Data Office and seeks a Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake) to join as a founding member. You’ll own the Snowflake platform, help shape architecture, engineering standards, and the data foundation supporting reporting, analytics and AI across the firm.

This hands-on role requires deep Snowflake, SQL and Python, plus experience with cloud data architectures, data security, and CI/CD.