Senior Snowflake Developer

Senior Snowflake Developer
Hybrid - 4 days on-site p/w in London
6 Month Contract, Inside IR35

Are you a Senior Snowflake Developer who wants to build the data platform behind risk reporting at a leading financial services organisation?

We're recruiting for two contract Senior Snowflake Developer positions in a risk reporting function that is moving legacy Microsoft data platforms onto Snowflake, dbt and Python. You'll help shape the future-state architecture and work directly with business stakeholders on high-profile regulatory and risk reporting programmes.

The hiring manager joined via us, so we have a close relationship with them and a detailed understanding of the team and what they need. Most agencies won't have that.

What You'll Be Doing

Designing, building and maintaining scalable Snowflake data solutions for risk, finance and regulatory reporting
Building and optimising ELT/ETL pipelines and reusable dbt transformation frameworks
Developing Python-based processing, automation and integration, and designing dimensional and analytical data models
Tuning Snowflake queries and workloads for performance and cost, and resolving complex production issues
Supporting the migration of legacy platforms to the cloud and contributing to architecture and technical standards
Running requirements workshops with business stakeholders and providing technical leadership through deliveryWhat You'll Bring

Extensive hands-on Snowflake experience, with strong dbt for transformation, modelling and deployment
Advanced Python development for data engineering and automation
Strong SQL Server experience, including database design, optimisation and troubleshooting
Solid grounding in data warehousing, star schema and dimensional modelling, plus source control and CI/CD
Banking or financial services background, ideally credit or market risk, with the confidence to engage senior stakeholdersDesirable: Control-M, Power BI, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, Azure data services, Snowflake Streamlit, cloud migration, near-real-time processing, AI or generative AI tools, market, credit or counterparty risk, regulatory reporting, capital and liquidity reporting

Please note: this role needs four days a week on site in London on an ongoing basis.

Apply today with your CV for this Senior Snowflake Developer contract role and we'll be in touch.

This role may suit candidates who have held roles including: Snowflake Developer, Snowflake Data Engineer, Senior Data Engineer, Data Warehouse Developer, dbt Developer, Analytics Engineer, Senior ETL Developer, Data Platform Engineer

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