Senior Snowflake Developer in City of London, London

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 delivery

What 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 stakeholders

Desirable: 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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