Senior Snowflake Engineer: Enterprise Data Platform Leader

NTT Limited; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a hands‑on Senior Snowflake Engineer to provide senior technical leadership across enterprise Snowflake implementations. The role combines deep Snowflake engineering expertise with proven delivery of complex, secure, scalable, and cost‑effective solutions into production.

The successful candidate will work closely with Data Architects and delivery teams, shaping implementation decisions, leading critical workstreams and ensuring production readiness.

Qualifications

• Deep production experience delivering enterprise Snowflake platforms.
• Strong SQL and data engineering capabilities.
• Experience with security, governance and RBAC in Snowflake.
• Experience leading technical workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise Snowflake data platforms from design to deployment.
• Own high‑risk components and lead Snowflake workstreams.
• Evaluate scalability, performance, security, and cost decisions.
• Define engineering standards and patterns.
• Design batch and real‑time ingestion and processing patterns.
• Review code and configurations for quality and production readiness.
• Provide hands‑on troubleshooting and production stabilization.
• Guide delivery teams and transfer knowledge.

Skills

Snowflake engineering

SQL proficiency

Data engineering

Cloud platforms

Education

Data engineering degree

Tools

Snowflake

ETL tooling

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking a hands‑on Senior Snowflake Engineer to provide senior technical leadership across enterprise Snowflake implementations. The role combines deep Snowflake engineering expertise with proven delivery of complex, secure, scalable, and cost‑effective solutions into production.

The successful candidate will work closely with Data Architects and delivery teams, shaping implementation decisions, leading critical workstreams and ensuring production readiness.