Senior Data Engineer with SAP BW and Snowflake, Retail Platform
First seen by Alion on Sep 30, 2026.
We are looking for a very senior hands-on Data Engineer with strong SAP BW and Snowflake experience who has led engineering teams. About 70% of the engineering work is extracting data from SAP BW and integrating it into Snowflake.
You will work side by side with a recently appointed Engineering Manager who comes from a non-engineering background, helping them build engineering leadership skills. Together you will grow the team toward independent, high-performing delivery: operating model, engineering practices, standards and delivery discipline. The goal is for the client’s team to run independently within about a year. You will get there through coaching-by-doing and knowledge transfer rather than long-term vendor dependency.
The client is headquartered in Southern California, USA. Working on site for the first 4–6 weeks is mandatory for this role, to build trust and work directly with the Engineering Manager and the team. After that, you will be on site a few days a week during the following weeks. A valid US visa, or the ability to obtain one quickly, is required.
Project Overview:
The project supports a large international consumer goods company that is scaling its Snowflake-based data platform. Selected datasets are moved from SAP BW into Snowflake one business case at a time. They feed data products for sales and distribution, retail and market analytics, and e-commerce. The platform is already critical to the business: hundreds of business users work every day with AI-powered analytics built on Snowflake Cortex and Streamlit.