Senior Snowflake Data Engineer: Cloud Pipelines & AI

Capgemini; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 77,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) plan

Life and disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, optimize, and maintain scalable cloud-based data platforms with strong Snowflake expertise in Houston. You will collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams to deliver dependable, high-performance data solutions across reporting, analytics, and advanced data initiatives.

The role emphasizes data quality, governance, and security, while mentoring junior engineers and participating in architecture reviews to drive best practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 5+ years in Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, or BI Engineering.
• 3+ years hands-on Snowflake experience.
• Strong SQL development and query optimization skills.
• Experience building large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Ability to design AI-enabled data solutions within Snowflake using Cortex capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data integration solutions.
• Build and optimize data warehouse solutions using Snowflake.
• Create ETL/ELT processes to ingest, transform, and load data.
• Apply data modeling approaches, including dimensional modeling and star schema design.
• Optimize Snowflake performance, storage usage, and cost management.
• Maintain data quality, integrity, governance, and security across the data platform.
• Partner with business users, analysts, and architects to gather requirements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve data pipeline and performance issues.
• Support CI/CD deployment processes and infrastructure automation.
• Mentor junior engineers and reinforce data engineering best practices.
• Participate in architecture reviews and technology evaluations.

Skills

SQL development

Python for data engineering

Data modeling

Data governance

Cloud platforms experience

AI-enabled data solutions

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/IS/Engineering

5+ years data engineering experience

3+ years Snowflake experience

Tools

Snowflake

Cortex

ETL/ELT tooling

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Capgemini is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, optimize, and maintain scalable cloud-based data platforms with strong Snowflake expertise in Houston. You will collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams to deliver dependable, high-performance data solutions across reporting, analytics, and advanced data initiatives.

The role emphasizes data quality, governance, and security, while mentoring junior engineers and participating in architecture reviews to drive best practices