Snowflake Data Engineer (Switzerland – Zurich or Geneva, Hybrid/Remote Options)

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Snowflake Data Engineer to design, build, and operate robust data pipelines and deliver high-quality data products. You will play a key role in supporting analytics and AI initiatives by leveraging the Snowflake platform to ensure scalable, secure, and cost-efficient data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate data pipelines on Snowflake.

• Implement governed semantic layers for analytics use cases.

• Ensure security, observability, and cost optimization across data solutions.

• Deliver end-to-end data products, including extraction, transformation, loading, testing, and documentation.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and design effective solutions.

• Contribute to best practices in data governance, quality, lineage, and incident response.

• Support CI/CD, containerization, and infrastructure-as-code for scalable delivery.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake:

• Data modeling and ingestion (e.g., Snowpipe, tasks).

• Performance tuning (micro-partitioning, clustering).

• Governance (RBAC, masking, row/column policies).

• Data sharing and cost management.

• Proficient in SQL and a modern transformation framework (e.g., dbt or equivalent).

• Familiarity with containerization (Docker), IaC (Terraform), and pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions).

• Strong practices for data quality, lineage, and security.

• Excellent communication skills for requirement gathering and solution design.

• Fluency in English; for Zurich-based roles, German is required; for Geneva-based roles, French is required.
  
  For more info reach out to Randy at +41 41 588 12 86 or Randy@summitag.ch