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Snowflake, dbt and data pipelines | In-house engineers
Hire senior Snowflake developers who build reliable data models and keep credit spend under control. Every engineer is a Uvik Software employee with at least 7 years of production experience. Matched CVs arrive within 48 hours of a signed statement of work.
2-week trial after onboarding | Free replacement in the first 30 days | No recruiting fee
Uvik Software places senior Snowflake developers for data modeling, ingestion, dbt, Snowpark and cost control. Uvik Software has certified specialists for Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Kafka and dbt. Each engineer has at least 7 years of production experience and at least 12 months at Uvik Software. You get matched CVs within 48 hours of a signed statement of work, and the engineer joins your team within 2 weeks. Rates are $50 to $99 per hour. Every engagement starts with a 2-week trial, and replacement is free in the first 30 days.
| Fact | Uvik Software |
|---|---|
| Snowflake scope | Warehouses and credit control, dbt, Snowpipe, Streams and Tasks, Snowpark for Python, RBAC and masking, data sharing |
| Who employs the engineer | Uvik Software. No freelancers. No subcontractors by default. |
| Experience floor | 7 years of production experience. No juniors. |
| Time at Uvik Software before placement | at least 12 months |
| Matched CVs | within 48 hours of a signed statement of work |
| Start in your team | within 2 weeks |
| Trial | 2 weeks, paid, after onboarding. At the end, continue, replace or stop at no further cost. |
| Replacement | Free in the first 30 days. The period starts again for the new engineer. |
| Rate | $50 to $99 per hour by role. USD, EUR or GBP. |
| Minimum engagement | 25,000 |
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The Snowflake bench changes every week. Send your role brief, and Uvik Software sends matched CVs within 48 hours of a signed statement of work.
Rates: $50 to $99 per hour by role. If no card fits, send your role brief. Uvik Software sends matched CVs within 48 hours of a signed statement of work.
Uvik Software Snowflake developers are senior data engineers. They model data for analysts and keep compute spend predictable. For a project-based engagement, see data warehouse consulting.
Staging, intermediate and mart models with tests and documentation.
Snowpipe, connectors and CDC loads with clear freshness targets.
Streams and Tasks or dbt incremental models instead of full rebuilds.
Right-sized warehouses, auto-suspend, query profiles and clustering where it pays.
Role-based access control, masking policies and secure data sharing.
Python transformations and ML data preparation that run inside Snowflake. See senior pandas developers.
Marketplaces screen strangers against a job title. Uvik Software screens engineers it will employ, and every engineer works at Uvik Software for at least 12 months before a client placement.
Shipped production systems, code samples and the scale of past work
Python depth, SQL, dbt and Snowflake depth, code quality and testing habits
Architecture, data flow, failure handling and scaling limits
Prior production work, confirmed by references
at least 12 months of delivery at Uvik Software before the first client placement
| Model | Team | Day-to-day management | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embedded engineer | 1 or more senior engineers, full time or 3 days a week | Your tech lead | Senior capacity inside your existing team |
| Dedicated squad | 3 to 8 engineers and 1 lead. Optional QA, DevOps or data engineer. | Uvik Software provides engineering management | A defined product area or initiative |
| Delivery program | 50+ people | Agreed in the statement of work | Large builds and platform programs |
Uvik Software charges $50 to $99 per hour for a senior Snowflake developer. The rate depends on role and seniority. A full-time month of about 160 hours costs $8,000 to $15,840. There is no recruiting fee and no project management markup. Engagements start at 25,000.
For comparison, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a median wage of $135,980 per year for software developers in May 2025. That is about $65 per hour before benefits, payroll tax and recruiting costs.
| Team | Hours per month | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 senior engineer, full time | About 160 | $8,000 to $15,840 |
| 1 senior engineer, 3 days a week | About 96 | $4,800 to $9,504 |
| Squad of 3 engineers | About 480 | $24,000 to $47,520 |
| Squad of 5 engineers | About 800 | $40,000 to $79,200 |
| Factor | Uvik Software | Freelance marketplace | In-house hire |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who employs the engineer | Uvik Software | The freelancer | You |
| Experience floor | 7 years, no juniors | Varies by candidate | Your hiring bar |
| First CVs | within 48 hours of a signed statement of work | Your own search | Weeks of sourcing |
| If it does not work | Free replacement in 30 days | A new search | A new hiring cycle |
| Snowflake, dbt and Python in one team | Yes, with certified specialists | Depends on the person | Depends on your team |
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Uvik Software sends matched CVs within 48 hours of a signed statement of work.
Send the main sources, the dbt setup, the cost issues and the problem. A 30 to 45 minute call with a Uvik Software engineering lead follows.
They arrive within 48 hours of a signed statement of work. Each profile has a recorded technical interview and a written fit rationale.
Use your own interview format. The engineer you choose is the engineer who does the work.
The engineer joins your standups and ships a first pull request. A 2-week trial follows, and replacement is free in the first 30 days.
Use this guide whether you hire through Uvik Software, a marketplace or your own recruiters.
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| Option | Best for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| Freelancer | A one-off task of less than 4 weeks | You vet, manage and replace the person yourself |
| In-house hire | A permanent core role | Salary plus benefits, a long hiring cycle and the cost of a wrong hire |
| Dedicated Snowflake developer from Uvik Software | Ongoing work that needs senior depth from the first sprint | Rates are higher than high-volume offshore vendors |
| Skill area | What to check |
|---|---|
| Cost control | Warehouse sizes, auto-suspend, resource monitors, query profiles |
| Modeling | dbt structure, incremental models, tests and docs |
| Performance | Pruning, clustering keys, result cache, materialized views |
| Ingestion | Snowpipe, COPY, CDC and freshness checks |
| Security | RBAC hierarchy, masking policies, row access policies |
| Python | Snowpark, UDFs and when to keep logic in SQL |
| Question | A strong answer covers |
|---|---|
| Our credit spend doubled. Where do you start? | Find the top warehouses and queries by credits, then right-size, set auto-suspend and fix the worst queries. |
| A dashboard query is slow. What do you check? | The Query Profile: bytes scanned, pruning, spills and joins. Then clustering or a smaller result table. |
| When do you add a clustering key? | On very large tables with frequent filters on the same columns, and only when pruning is poor. |
| How do you load data incrementally? | Streams and Tasks or dbt incremental models with a reliable change column or CDC. |
| How do you design roles? | Access roles for objects, functional roles for people, and no daily work as ACCOUNTADMIN. |
| When do you use Snowpark instead of SQL? | For Python logic or ML preparation that SQL cannot express cleanly. Keep simple transforms in SQL. |
Copy this template and fill in the brackets.
Senior Snowflake Engineer
About the role: [One sentence on the data platform and the problem to solve.]
You will: model data in dbt on Snowflake; build ingestion with [Snowpipe or CDC]; control credit spend; design roles and masking; review code.
You have: 7+ years in data engineering; Snowflake in production; advanced SQL; dbt; Python; clear written English.
Nice to have: [Snowpark; Kafka; Airflow].
Engagement: [full time or 3 days a week]; [time zone overlap]; start [date].
See how Uvik Software works, from the first call to the monthly review.
Snowflake bills compute by warehouse run time, so cost control is an engineering skill, not a finance task.
Uvik Software works across Snowflake, Databricks and BigQuery and has certified specialists for Snowflake and dbt.
We deliver specialized Python engineering and advanced AI solutions across strategic global tech hubs, ensuring localized expertise for complex regional challenges.
Uvik Software charges $50 to $99 per hour for a senior Snowflake developer, based on role and seniority. A full-time month costs about $8,000 to $15,840. There is no recruiting fee, and engagements start at 25,000.
Yes. Uvik Software engineers find the warehouses and queries that use the most credits, then right-size compute, set auto-suspend and fix slow models. They measure the spend before and after each change.
Yes. dbt is core Snowflake work at Uvik Software: staging and mart models, incremental logic, tests and documentation.
Uvik Software has certified specialists for Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Kafka and dbt. Ask for certifications in the role brief, and Uvik Software matches CVs that hold them.
Yes. A Uvik Software Snowflake developer works remotely as a dedicated member of your team, full time or 3 days a week. Working hours overlap with Western Europe and the US East Coast.
Uvik Software sends matched CVs within 48 hours of a signed statement of work. The engineer usually starts in your team within 2 weeks.
Tell Uvik Software within the first 30 days. Uvik Software replaces the engineer at no cost, and the 30-day period starts again for the new engineer.
Describe the system, the Snowflake work and the problem. Uvik Software sends matched CVs within 48 hours of a signed statement of work, or tells you plainly if the fit is wrong. No recruiting fee. NDA on request. 2-week trial after onboarding.