Senior Cloud Database Engineer (Snowflake)

Job Title : Senior Cloud Database Engineer (Snowflake)

Work Location : Reading, PA

Duration : Long Term

Job Description

The primary responsibility of this role is to design and engineer resilient enterprise data platforms, both on-premises and in a multi-cloud hybrid environment, guided by the principles of a well-architected framework.

This is an individual contributor role that requires collaboration with cross-functional teams across the company to ensure platforms are built for adoption with high standards of performance, scalability, and cost optimization, while leveraging emerging technologies in the data ecosystem.

The person in this role will support the Data Engineering and Services team's objective to architect and engineer highly resilient and available data platforms in a global multi-cloud hybrid environment.

Mandatory Skills

• Bachelor's degree in IT or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in database technologies.
• 5+ years of extensive experience with database technologies such as Snowflake, Redis / Memory DB, DynamoDB, Aurora / RDS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
• 5+ years of experience with cloud databases and public cloud services (AWS, Azure, OCP, OIC, MongoDB Atlas, etc.).
• 3+ years of experience designing business solutions in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Strong command of SQL, PowerShell, and Unix shell scripting; knowledge of Python and JSON is a plus.
• Proficiency in SQL tools such as TOAD, SQL Developer, PGADMIN, DPA, snowsql, MongoDB compass, etc.
• Advanced knowledge of database security, backup and recovery, and performance monitoring standards.
• Solid understanding of relational and dimensional data modeling.
• Experience with database migrations and upgrades.
• Experience with both homogeneous and heterogeneous database migrations between cloud and on-premises environments.
• Expertise in modern approaches to designing, building, optimizing, and deploying database workloads in public cloud environments, preferably AWS.
• Skilled in schema design and data modeling.
• Proven ability to drive architectural and security improvements across systems, tools, and workflows.
• Passion for automation and optimization of database infrastructure, working effectively with international teams (onsite and offshore).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present concepts and recommendations to management.
• AWS / Azure cloud certifications.

What You'll Be Doing