Snowflake Engineer

Snowflake Engineer Sydney 6-Month Contract

Are you a Snowflake Engineer with strong expertise across enterprise data platforms and Azure cloud technologies?

We're partnering with a leading enterprise organisation to secure an highly skilled Snowflake Engineer to join a major data platform initiative, helping deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing data solutions across Snowflake and Azure.

Sydney, NSW

6-Month Contract

Hybrid Working Environment

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing data platform team working on enterprise-wide analytics capabilities. You'll play a key role in designing, integrating, and optimising Snowflake solutions, enabling secure and efficient data access across advanced data and analytics platforms.

Working alongside Solution Architects, Data Engineers, Security Teams, and Business Stakeholders, you'll help deliver robust cloud-based data solutions that align with enterprise standards and governance requirements

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and implement integrations between Snowflake and Azure cloud data platforms
• Develop and maintain data pipelines and ingestion frameworks using Snowflake and Azure-native services
• Contribute to detailed data platform architecture and solution design
• Ensure alignment with enterprise security standards, performance requirements, and data strategies
• Implement and manage Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and fine-grained access policies within Snowflake
• Design and enforce data classification-based access controls
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to maintain governance and auditability
• Optimise Snowflake environments for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve platform performance issues
• Work closely with analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to enable secure data access
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and access control policies

What You'll Bring Essential Experience

• Minimum 5+ years' experience in Data Engineering or Cloud Data Platform roles
• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake including scheme design, query optimisation, and security and access control
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure data services, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Blob Storage
• Deep understanding of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Data classification frameworks, Data security best practices
• Strong SQL development skills
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and documentation capabilities

Highly Desirable

• Experience with Python scripting
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and Azure DevOps
• Previous experience within banking or large enterprise environments

Why Apply?

• Join a leading Australian financial services organisation
• Work on enterprise-scale cloud and data platform initiatives
• Exposure to modern data technologies including Snowflake and Azure
• Collaborative and innovative delivery environment
• High-impact role with strong stakeholder engagement
• Competitive contract opportunity with immediate impact

Candidates will need to be willing to undergo pre-employment screening checks which may include, ID and work rights, security clearance verification and any other client requested checks.