Senior Snowflake Developer - Contract - London - £600pd via umbrella

Project overview

Senior Snowflake Developer - Contract - London - £600pd via umbrella

Project details

London, UK (Hybrid, 4 days onsite)

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Snowflake Developer to design, develop, and optimise enterprise data solutions within a Financial Services environment. The role will focus on delivering scalable cloud-based platforms supporting risk, finance, regulatory, and management reporting.

Working closely with business stakeholders, architects, and technology teams, you will help modernise Legacy platforms and deliver strategic data initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Development & Architecture

Optimisation & Support

Stakeholder Engagement

Governance

Essential Skills & Experience

Technical

Financial Services

Stakeholder Management

Desirable Skills

Domain Knowledge

Experience in one or more of:

Preferred Profile

• Design, build, and support Snowflake-based data solutions.
• Develop and optimise ETL/ELT pipelines using Snowflake, dbt, and Python.
• Create scalable data models and reporting structures.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and cloud migration initiatives.
• Implement data quality, governance, and monitoring controls.
• Improve Snowflake performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Troubleshoot complex production and performance issues.
• Ensure solutions meet enterprise standards and best practices.
• Gather and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Facilitate workshops and collaborate with business and technology teams.
• Provide technical leadership and support project delivery.
• Support code reviews, testing, releases, and documentation.
• Ensure compliance with governance, security, and regulatory requirements.
• Strong commercial experience with Snowflake.
• Hands-on expertise with dbt, Python, and SQL Server.
• Experience building enterprise ETL/ELT and data warehousing solutions.
• Strong knowledge of dimensional modelling, data architecture, data governance, and performance tuning.
• Experience with source control and CI/CD practices.
• Experience within Banking or Financial Services.
• Knowledge of risk, finance, treasury, regulatory, or management reporting environments.
• Experience working within regulated governance frameworks.
• Strong requirements gathering and business analysis skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to deliver scalable solutions aligned to business needs.
• Control-M
• Power BI
• Azure Data Services
• SSIS, SSRS, SSAS
• Snowflake Streamlit
• AI/Generative AI technologies
• Cloud migration programmes
• Real Time data processing architectures
• Market Risk
• Credit Risk
• Counterparty Risk
• Treasury
• Regulatory Reporting
• Capital & Liquidity Reporting
• 7+ years' experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or analytics development.
• 3+ years' Snowflake development experience.
• Proven delivery of enterprise-scale solutions within Financial Services.
• Experience modernising Legacy Microsoft data platforms and migrating to cloud technologies.
• Ability to lead technical workstreams and mentor junior team members.
• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6 months
• Location: London, UK, GB