Principal Snowflake Data Platform Engineer

Job Title: Principal Snowflake Data Platform Engineer Location: Irvine, CA About The Role Reporting & Visualization Development Design, develop, and optimize interactive dashboards, reports, and visualization solutions that enable reliable and scalable business insights across the organization. Implement best practices in BI development including data modeling, visualization standards, and performance optimization to ensure high usability and responsiveness of reporting platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align reporting solutions with business objectives and evolving analytical needs. availability and uninterrupted service delivery. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align engineering solutions with organizational goals and evolving business needs. Semantic Modeling & BI Platform Development Develop and maintain modern semantic data models and reporting layers using BI platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, or other cloud-based reporting tools. Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and governance through standardized metric definitions, data validation, and documentation practices. Contribute to BI development standards, reusable dashboards, templates, and data models to promote scalability and self-service analytics. BI Platform Support & Optimization Maintain and enhance existing dashboards, reports, and BI assets to ensure performance, reliability, and alignment with security and governance policies. Evaluate and recommend new BI tools, visualization techniques, and reporting frameworks to continuously improve analytics capabilities. Support production reporting environments, troubleshoot issues, and perform root cause analysis while driving continuous improvement of BI processes. Data Modeling & Source Integration for Analytics Design and implement efficient analytical data models (star schemas, semantic layers, and aggregates) that support enterprise reporting and dashboarding needs. Perform detailed analysis of source systems and datasets to ensure accurate integration with reporting platforms. Apply best practices in data modeling, metadata management, and version control to maintain consistency and transparency across BI assets. Business Partnership & Insights Enablement Partner with business stakeholders, analysts, and data teams to deliver trusted and actionable insights through well-designed dashboards and reports. Translate business questions and analytical requirements into scalable BI solutions aligned with enterprise data and analytics strategies. Contribute to the evolution of enterprise BI platforms by shaping reporting standards, governance frameworks, and long-term analytics roadmaps. Additional responsibilities as assigned. Education And Experience Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related field required. Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Management, or Business/Technology discipline preferred. 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or enterprise data platforms. 5+ years in a senior/lead architect role driving platform strategy, standards, and governance at enterprise scale. Proven expertise designing and operating cloud-based data platforms (Snowflake or similar), including Lakehouse/medallion architectures. Hands-on experience with ELT/ETL tools, data modeling, and metadata management (dbt, Fivetran, or comparable). Strong background in enterprise integration (API-led, event-driven, or batch patterns). Demonstrated success enabling self-service BI and analytics platforms with governed semantic layers. Exposure to machine learning/AI platforms and MLOps// practices for operationalizing models. Track record of partnering with business leaders to align data platforms with strategic business needs(growth, efficiency, compliance, innovation). Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills; experience influencing technical and executive audiences. About Sonata Software Sonata Software is an AI-first modernization engineering company that helps enterprises transform legacy systems into intelligent, scalable business platforms. Powered by its Platformation™ framework and Harmoni.AI platform, Sonata delivers AI-led modernization across cloud, data, AI, Dynamics, test automation, and managed services. Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Sonata has more than $1.2 billion in revenue and 6,400+ AI engineers supporting global delivery across regions including the US, UK, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Australia, DACH, and the Nordics. With deep partnerships across Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce, and Snowflake, Sonata helps Fortune 500 enterprises accelerate innovation, improve efficiency, and drive sustainable growth. For more information, please visit www.sonata-software.com Sonata Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristics protected by law