Architect for the Future: Optimize our existing Snowflake architecture, establishing strict environmental isolation and scalable structures that prepare our data for eventual downstream commercialization and product offerings. 

Drive Agentic Engineering: Leverage tools like Snowflake Cortex, Cursor, and UiPath to automate workflows, build semantic models, and deploy agents that accelerate time-to-value. 

Establish Data Observability: Implement and manage robust data quality and observability frameworks to ensure pipeline reliability and proactive issue resolution. 

Operationalize Machine Learning: Design and maintain MLOps pipelines to support the seamless rollout, monitoring, and lifecycle management of ML models directly within Snowflake. 

Execute Shared Ownership: Partner closely with your peers under the Data Engineering Manager to share responsibilities across pipeline management, MLOps, and architecture, avoiding siloed knowledge and ensuring comprehensive team coverage. 

Model for Enterprise Utility: Synthesize disparate operational entities into a unified, enterprise-wide semantic model that supports both internal analytics and future data monetization efforts. 

5+ years of Data Engineering experience with a deep, specialized focus on Snowflake's advanced features (e.g., RBAC, materialized views, dynamic tables, Snowpipe, stored procedures). 

Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, with a strong foundation in applying software engineering best practices to ELT processes. 

Observability Expertise: Hands-on experience implementing data observability and monitoring platforms (such as DataDog) to manage data quality at scale. 

AI & MLOps Exposure: Demonstrated experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Cortex) and familiarity with MLOps principles for productionalizing machine learning models. 

Pipeline Management: Experience building and maintaining resilient, low-touch data pipelines using modern integration and orchestration tools (e.g., Fivetran, AWS Glue, AWS Lambda). 

Deep domain expertise navigating complex merchant payment ecosystems (e.g., Adyen), operating under rigorous enterprise data governance and security standards. 

Proven ability to architect the translation of high-velocity transactional events into highly optimized, columnar analytical architectures. 

Direct experience architecting data products for commercialization, external endpoints, or embedded analytics within a SaaS platform.