Snowflake Developer

Title - Snowflake Developer Location: Chicago, IL or Tempe, AZ (hybrid) Duration: 6–12-month Contract (W2) Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced Snowflake Developer to join our data engineering team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Snowflake data platform capabilities, with proven experience in designing and implementing robust data ingestion solutions across both file-based and streaming architectures on AWS and Azure cloud platforms. Must haves: • Deep, hands-on Snowflake development (not high level experience). • Not just working on snowflake on the cloud or querying but being able to manipulate data from different sources like ADF and Python to bring into AWS/Azure. Determine what data has changed, set up various badge or screening technologies, have deliverable where data is available for end users to share in snowflake or leverage other tools (like power BI) to access data. • AWS + Azure experience — ideally strong in both. • Practical experience with: • AWS services: Lambdas, S3/storage, error monitoring (CloudWatch, Dynatrace), database offerings like Aurora • Azure services: Data Factory, Blob Storage, Functions, SQL Server • Python (for data movement and transformations). • Data engineering fundamentals: Data warehousing, data modeling, ETL/ELT, understanding changed data, and enabling batch/streaming pipelines. • Ability to bring data in from varied sources (APIs, Kafka, flat files, databases) and deliver it to Snowflake or BI tools (Power BI, etc.).