Software Engineer - Snowflake

This role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week

Overview:

The Snowflake Platform Engineering team builds software for data engineers bringing data in and out of M&T's central data ecosystem. We are a growing team, currently supporting multiple teams within our department, with plans to expand our usership to more departments over the next year. With that, we need to build the guardrails to make our software resilient at scale. This role will participate in design, delivery, and evolution of core platform capabilities, including framework enhancements, new data engineering patterns, performance optimization, and resiliency improvements.

A Software Engineer on this team develops python application code and tests, works with senior engineers to design applications, and supports the existing applications and users

Primary Responsibilities:

• Build and support core ingestion / transformation / deployment frameworks
• Drive standardization across Medallion architecture patterns
• Partner with product teams on performance + resiliency improvements
• Support production stability and platform governance
• Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that supports a culture of belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
• Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Supervisory/Managerial Responsibilities:

No supervisory responsibilities.

Tech Stack

- Python (Object Oriented Programming), PyTest, Pydantic, FastAPI

- Snowflake, Databricks, SQL, RDBMS, ETL

- CI/CD - Gitlab, Terraform, Ansible

- Linux, Cloud Compute (Azure)

Education and Experience Required:

• Associate's degree and a minimum of 3 years’ systems analysis and/ or application development work experience OR Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 1 year systems analysis and/or application development work experience. In lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 5 years’ education and/or relevant work experience, including a minimum of 1 year of systems analysis and/or application development work experience
• Professional proficiency in a minimum of 1 relevant programming language

Education and Experience Preferred:

• Basic analytical skills specific to application development
• Experience working in a team environment
• Ability to work autonomously
• Ability to multitask on moderately complex projects
• Strong organizational skills
• Strong time management skills
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills

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