Snowflake Data Engineer

Job ID: 4086

Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and direct Nordea’s transformation by providing a holistic technological view and structured understanding of the bank, and its surrounding environment to enable the Customer Vision and the Business Strategy.

Nordea is a place where traditions meet tomorrow. We're not just a bank, we're a tech employer on a mission to evolve finance securely and responsibly. Together, we impact millions of people’s daily lives by ensuring they can access our solutions anytime, anywhere, while safeguarding their personal data and wealth. Join us in making an impact on the banking industry.

About our team

You'll join a Large Data Foundation team in a banking environment responsible for building and maintaining transformation layers on Snowflake — turning ingested raw data into clean, governed, analytics-ready datasets consumed for IRB risk Model development and Model use for risk parameters.

We work cross-functionally — you won't just write code handed to you in a ticket. You're expected to understand the data you work on, contribute to requirements elicitation, own development and involving in all phases of testing, and take part in CI/CD and deployment processes. If you need a clear line between "analyst work" and "developer work", this probably isn't the right fit.

You know Snowflake well enough to choose the right tool for the job: when to write a SQL procedure, when Snowpark makes more sense, when a Dynamic Table is the answer, and when a simple view is enough. You don't reach for complexity when simplicity works.

We don't expect you to know everything from day one. You'll get full support from the team — domain knowledge, technical context, onboarding to our codebase and standards. There are people around you who will help you build internal knowledge, and we treat knowledge sharing as part of the job, not a side activity.

Main responsibilities in this role: 

• Design and build transformation jobs in Snowflake — SQL stored procedures, Snowpark (Python/Scala), Dynamic Tables
• Engage in requirement analysis — understand the business and data context before writing code, not after
• Translate business and analytical requirements into clean, maintainable transformation logic
• Apply Snowflake best practices: clustering, micro-partition awareness, query optimization, warehouse rightsizing  
• Contribute to data modeling decisions — schema design, naming conventions, partitioning strategies
• Own CI/CD for your deliverables — branching, deployments, environment promotion via Bitbucket and Jenkins
• Write and maintain Airflow DAGs that orchestrate Snowflake transformation workloads
• Contribute to our data exchange layer (Database Roles, Secure Views, cross-account sharing)
• Review code, pair with team members, contribute to team standards

Who you are

Your background and skills include: 

Must have:

• 8+ years in data engineering with at least 2 years hands-on Snowflake in production  
• Strong SQL — window functions, QUALIFY, MERGE, recursive CTEs, FLATTEN/LATERAL for semi-structured data, performance tuning
• Snowpark (Python or Scala) — building transformation logic, understanding when it's preferable to pure SQL
• Understanding of Snowflake execution model: micro-partitions, clustering, pruning, query plan reading
• Python or Scala for pipeline logic and tooling   
• Airflow — authoring DAGs, sensors, retriesGit, Bitbucket, CI/CD — comfortable owning deployments, not just writing code
• Financial services or banking domain knowledge — you need to understand what the data means, not just move it. Credit risk, finance, or regulatory reporting background is expected

Nice to have: 

• Snowflake Dynamic Tables — knows when to use them vs Tasks vs stored procedures
• Streams and Tasks for incremental processing patterns   
• Snowpipe or Snowpipe Streaming
• DataStage — for working alongside legacy pipelines
• Streamlit in Snowflake
• SAFe or scaled agile experience

Mindset:    

• Comfortable working across the full delivery lifecycle — analysis, development, testing, deployment
• Chooses the simplest Snowflake feature that solves the problem — not the most impressive one
• Reads the query profile before optimizing, doesn't guess
• Treats auditability, lineage, and access controls as part of the design, not an afterthought

Working with AI: 

• Actively uses AI coding tools as part of daily work — not occasionally
• Understands how LLMs work well enough to use them effectively: knows what context to provide, how to scope a prompt, and when to trust the output versus when to push back
• Keeps up with the AI tooling market — aware of what's available, what's improving, and what's relevant for data engineering work

Our stack:

• Snowflake, Snowpark (Python/Scala), Dynamic Tables, Airflow, DataStage (legacy interop), Streamlit in Snowflake, Bitbucket, Jenkins, IntelliJ/VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Gemini Plugin, Cortex and more.
   

What we offer

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

People are driven by many different factors. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

​Submit your application no later than 29/06/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Narendra Gandrakota at narendra.gandrakota@nordea.com.

The recruitment process consists of the following steps:

• Preliminary CV selection
• Phone conversation with the recruiter
• Online interview with the hiring leader
• Background check

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us. Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think.

Only for candidates in Finland: A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.

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