Principal Data Engineer

We are seeking a talented Principal Data Engineer in Pune, India. Reporting to the Sr. Manager – Data Engineering. The right candidate has strong communication skills, passion for solving business problems with data, domain knowledge in Finance – O2C, FP&A or Human Resources and empathy, curiosity and desire to improve and constantly learn; has hand-on experience in ETL Tools and Snowflake. Should be hands-on with DBT and Proven track record of driving best practices and processes, building data models and ETL loads. This individual will: a) Design and build performant data models – facts and dimension to support primary business functions for Finance, Procurement & HR. They’ll be the data evangelist for these business domain driving adoption of data & analytics across business teams, building data stories and make a major shift on how Enterprise decisions are made using data. They will work independently and a) Partner with a global team of PMs, Business Analysts, IT/ETL engineers (onsite and offshore); b) Synthesize business meetings into clear requirements, define KPI and metrics, prioritize requirements and create roadmaps with business and mentor the team to create best in class analytics

In this role you will…

Evangelize the data requirements in multiple business functions.
Partner with Business stakeholders in Finance O2C, FP&A, HR Operations, Customer Success & Support to understand, analyze, prioritize and deliver their data and reporting needs.
Strong understanding on Snowflake and experience in DBT
Write complex SQLs to analyze cross functional business data sets to find answers to business questions, test the data quality.
Troubleshoot data and reporting issues and solve it with sense of high urgency.
Understand the data from the source systems and be able to transform it into data-marts in Snowflake using complex SQL transformation.
Clearly communicate progress, dependencies, risks, issues, key metrics to business and IT leadership.
Review work from peers and mentor junior team members
Train business teams on how to self-service using Enterprise data platform.
You have what it takes if you have…
Excellent Communication Skills & ability to collaborate across multiple business and IT teams and mentor other engineers on the team.
DBT Exposure is a must
Strong knowledge of business workflows and data in Finance domain – O2C, FP&A, HR Operations domain.
7+ years of experience in data analysis using complex SQL & hands-on in Snowflake
Python Knowledge will be an advantage
2-3 years of Hands-on experience in using Snowflake.
Strong understanding of data warehouse concepts
Strong troubleshooting skills - identifying and fixing data issues and anomalies.
Bachelors in Computer Science/MBA degree

Extra dose of awesome if you have
Strong Knowledge of CRM lead, campaigns, quotes and opportunities
Tableau Desktop Certified Professional
Hands-on DBT experience
Python Skills
Data Science and Advanced analytics experience using Python