Senior Software Engineer (Snowflake)

Milestone Technologies, Inc.; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 124,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Milestone Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Snowflake) for a 12-month contract in Orlando, FL.

The role demands 7+ years in software engineering with 3–5 years on Snowflake, providing technical leadership across data initiatives and architecture for high-volume datasets. You will design Snowflake solutions, govern data ingest/egress, and mentor developers while collaborating with Product, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Operations to ensure scalable, compliant

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3–5 years hands-on Snowflake development.
• Experience leading developers in project delivery.
• Snowflake certifications - SnowPro Core, SnowPro Advanced Data Engineer.
• Proven experience implementing and supporting Snowflake optimization reports for large data lakes across multiple accounts.
• Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines enabled with Python code.
• Strong expertise in Snowflake data warehousing, medallion lake strategies, security and governance.
• Experience with REST integrations, data imports, web services, and event-based integrations.
• Proven ability to design scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions for enterprise growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and optimization of Snowflake solutions using modern capabilities.
• Serve as technical authority on platform strategy, AI adoption, governance, and security.
• Architect data ingest and egress across multiple sources ensuring data quality and lifecycle integrity.
• Design scalable data models supporting enterprise needs and regulatory compliance.
• Be the Snowflake expert aligning with GDPR/CCPA/PII guidelines.
• Build and optimize Platform Analytics and executive dashboards.
• Leverage Snowflake Intelligence, Streamlit, Cortex AI and Gen AI features.
• Define patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures with long-term sustainment.
• Collaborate with Product, EA, Security, and Ops to translate goals into robust solutions.
• Mentor engineers, lead design/code reviews, and provide technical coaching.

Skills

Snowflake platform

Technical leadership

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Agile delivery

Data governance

REST integrations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

REST APIs

SQL

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Job description

Title: Senior Software Engineer (Snowflake)

Duration: 12 months

Description

Seeking a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years’ overall software engineering experience and 3-5 years’ experience with Snowflake. The ideal candidate will have experience leading large-scale data initiatives, including projects that have evolved into multi-year, multi-million-dollar programs. The position requires extensive expertise in data management, transformation, and analysis, with a strong focus on handling complex and high-volume datasets. While this is not a people management role, the individual will be expected to provide technical leadership and oversight to other developers from a project delivery perspective.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and optimization of complex Snowflake solutions leveraging modern platform capabilities, best practices, and extensibility frameworks.
• Act as a technical authority across all development team activities to include platform strategy, AI adoption & implementation, and platform governance and security.
• Architect and govern complex data ingest & egress across multiple internal and external data sources, ensuring data quality, normalization, reconciliation, lifecycle integrity, and operational reliability.
• Design scalable models that support enterprise-wide capabilities, asset lifecycles, compliance, reporting, and integration with downstream systems.
• Be the technical expert within the Snowflake platform for alignment with global data guidelines in support of PII, GDPR, PIPL, CCPA regulations.
• Build and optimize Platform Analytics, Performance Analytics, and executive-level dashboards, driving data informed decision making.
• Leverage emerging Snowflake capabilities such as Snowflake Intelligence, Streamlit, Cortex AI and Gen AI.
• Define technical patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures aligned with platform strategy and long-term sustainment.
• Partner with Product Management, Enterprise Architecture, Security, and Operations to translate strategic goals into robust technical solutions.
• Mentor engineers and provide architectural guidance through design reviews, code reviews, and technical coaching.
• Lead complex troubleshooting efforts, including production break-fix, discovery failures, root cause analysis, integration bottlenecks, and performance degradation.
• Produce high-quality, audit-ready technical documentation, including solution designs, data models, and architectural diagrams.
• Act as technical authority within the development team for complex data mastering, fuzzy logic, address validation, and relationship management.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant (3-5 years) hands-on development on the Snowflake platform.
• Experience providing technical leadership and oversight to other developers
• Snowflake certifications - SnowPro Core, SnowPro Advanced Data Engineer
• Demonstrated experience implementing and supporting detailed Snowflake optimization reports for very large volume data lakes across multiple accounts.
• Strong experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, enabled with custom Python code.
• Strong technical expertise implementing Snowflake Data Warehousing & Medallion data lake strategies.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Security, Disaster Recovery, Data Governance, Monitoring, AI and Enablement.
• Solid understanding of asset lifecycles, license compliance, software normalization, and hardware asset governance.
• Experience with REST integrations, data imports, web services, and event-based integrations.
• Proven experience working in Agile delivery environments with cross-functional global teams.
• Ability to design scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions that support enterprise growth.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with high volume data solutions such as Databricks and Azure Synapse.
• One or more SnowPro advanced or specialty certifications, such as Generative AI, Snowpark or Architect.
• Experience implementing Platform Analytics, advanced Performance Analytics, and complex data-driven insights with a lens towards cost optimization strategy.
• Experience with programming languages such as C# and .NET.
• Strong understanding of platform governance, upgrade strategies, and technical debt management.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

The estimated pay range for this position is USD $90.00/hr - USD $98.50/hr. Exact compensation and offers of employment are dependent on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, licenses or certificates, and location. We also offer comprehensive benefits. The Talent Acquisition Partner can share more details about compensation or benefits for the role during the interview process.