Data Engineer (Snowflake and Matillion) - £425PD - Remote

Tenth Revolution Group
City of London
1 month ago
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About the Role

We are looking for a Data Engineer with strong experience in Snowflake and Matillion to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and analytics-ready data models. You'll work closely with analytics, product, and business teams to turn raw data into reliable, high-quality datasets that power reporting, dashboards, and advanced analytics.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working in a modern cloud data stack and takes pride in building clean, performant, and well-documented data solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain ELT pipelines using Matillion to ingest data from multiple sources into Snowflake

Develop and optimize data models in Snowflake for analytics and reporting use cases

Ensure data quality, reliability, and performance across pipelines and warehouse workloads

Collaborate with analytics engineers, data analysts, and stakeholders to understand data requirements

Implement best practices for Snowflake (clustering, scaling, cost optimization, security)

Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines, resolving failures and performance issues

Manage and evolve data transformations using SQL and version control

Document data pipelines, models, and business logic for long-term maintainability

Support CI/CD processes and promote automation across the data platform

Required Qualifications

3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role

Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake (data modeling, performance tuning, security)

Proven experience building pipelines with Matillion

Advanced SQL skills and solid understanding of ELT best practices

Experience working with cloud data architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git)

Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail

Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice to Have

Experience with dbt or other transformation frameworks

Exposure to data orchestration tools (Airflow, etc.)

Understanding of data governance, lineage, and metadata management

Experience supporting BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, etc.)

Python experience for data tooling or automation

Experience working in an agile or product-driven environment

To apply for this role please submit your CV or contact Dillon Blackburn on (phone number removed) or at (url removed).

Tenth Revolution Group are the go-to recruiter for Data & AI roles in the UK offering more opportunities across the country than any other recruitment agency. We're the proud sponsor and supporter of SQLBits, Power Platform World Tour, and the London Fabric User Group. We are the global leaders in Data & AI recruitment

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