About this Snowflake Data Consultant - Higher Education role at Attain Partners
Attain Partners is an innovative consulting firm dedicated to disrupting the status quo to change the world and improve the lives of those we touch. From strategy to technology and everywhere in between, our experts use their unique skills to advance the important missions of education, nonprofit, healthcare, and state and local government clients.
People are at the center of all we do, and that’s why we empower career growth, provide industry-leading benefits packages, encourage a flexible work environment, and foster a culture of inclusion to support the needs of our team. We share a collective passion for our mission and our people. Guided by our seven core values, The Attain Way, our vision is the foundation of our culture—to be and attain the best.
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Job Description
The Snowflake Contractor will provide ongoing technical support, architectural guidance, and development assistance for the organization’s Snowflake data warehouse environment. This role will help maintain the existing platform, resolve technical issues, promote data management best practices, and support the continued expansion of Snowflake to additional data domains, business teams, and reporting solutions. Higher Education is the focus
Required Skills
- Hands-on experience supporting and developing solutions within Snowflake.
- Strong understanding of cloud data warehouse architecture, data modeling, and data integration.
- Experience troubleshooting Snowflake errors, performance issues, data-loading failures, and access-related problems.
- Ability to recommend corrective actions and preventative measures to reduce recurring issues.
- Experience designing scalable data structures as new data sources and subject areas are added.
- Knowledge of data management, data quality, security, governance, and warehouse development best practices.
- Experience developing or supporting Snowflake data feeds used by Tableau.
- Strong SQL development and optimization skills.
- Ability to communicate architectural and technical recommendations to both business and technology stakeholders.
Desired Skills
- Experience expanding Snowflake environments to support householding, customer, constituent, or account relationship data.
- Experience integrating Salesforce Marketing Cloud data into Snowflake.
- Experience onboarding new departments, teams, and data sources into an enterprise data warehouse.
- Knowledge of Tableau data sources, extracts, semantic layers, and portal integrations.
- Familiarity with Snowflake cost management, performance optimization, monitoring, and resource governance.
- Experience working within higher education, nonprofit, advancement, marketing, or constituent-data environments.
- Experience documenting data models, architectural decisions, support procedures, and development standards.
Years of Experience
5
Certifications
SnowPro Core Certification preferred.
Attain Partners is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The individual hourly rate for this position is unique to each candidate and will be commensurate with experience, education, and skills.
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Attain Partners is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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