Lead Snowflake Engineer

Summary: The Lead Snowflake Engineer will provide technical leadership for complex, business-critical systems, focusing on the design, development, and delivery of scalable applications. This role involves mentoring engineering teams and ensuring adherence to best practices while driving engineering excellence. The position requires deep expertise in Snowflake and collaboration with various stakeholders to translate requirements into effective technical solutions. The role is fully remote and emphasizes performance tuning and optimization in enterprise-scale environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the technical lead for major development initiatives, ensuring architecture, code quality, and solution integrity.
• Design and implement highly performant data and application components leveraging deep Snowflake expertise, including performance tuning, cost optimization, and secure data sharing patterns.
• Collaborate with architecture, product, and business partners to translate requirements into technical solutions aligned to FIS standards.
• Drive engineering excellence: code reviews, CI/CD maturity, automated testing, observability, and operational readiness.
• Diagnose complex issues across distributed systems and provide guidance for long-term resolution.
• Mentor engineers, providing technical coaching and elevating overall team capability.

Key Skills:

• Proven experience as a lead or senior engineer in enterprise-scale environments.
• Expert-level Snowflake experience including architecture, SQL performance tuning, resource optimization, and integration with cloud platforms (Azure preferred).
• Strong experience with distributed systems, modern development frameworks, and DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive outcomes across multiple workstreams.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: undetermined

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT