Data Engineer

Meet the Team Join Cisco’s Data & Analytics team, a high-performing group of intelligent, dedicated, and results-driven professionals building a best-in-class enterprise analytics platform. Our mission is to connect data across the value chain to deliver persona-based, actionable insights that empower self-service analytics, enable digital processes, and accelerate Cisco’s transformation to new business models.

By combining innovation, technical expertise, and business impact, the team helps drive operational efficiency and data-driven decision-making at scale. Your Impact In this role, you will be instrumental in building and maintaining our enterprise data platform.

You will design scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and develop analytics-ready data models that empower business stakeholders to make data-driven decisions. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the cutting edge of cloud data warehousing, optimizing Snowflake performance and ensuring high standards of data governance and quality.

Responsibilities Design, build, and support scalable ELT/ETL pipelines that ingest, transform, and publish data from enterprise source systems into the Snowflake Data Cloud. Develop and maintain curated, analytics-ready data models using dbt with a focus on modular design, reusability, testing, and maintainability.

Implement and optimize Snowflake-native capabilities, including Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, and advanced performance tuning for virtual warehouses. Enforce data quality, observability, lineage, governance, and access control standards across the entire data platform.

Partner with data architects, analysts, and business stakeholders to translate complex functional requirements into scalable and reliable data solutions. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with strong hands-on expertise in cloud data warehousing and modern data platform implementations.

In-depth experience with Snowflake Data Cloud, including its architecture, security model, and operational best practices. Strong hands-on experience with dbt (Data Build Tool) for the design, development, and maintenance of data models and automated testing.

Advanced expertise in SQL and proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Python, Java, or Scala. Preferred Qualifications Experience with data quality, observability, and lineage tools to support monitoring, validation, and governance across data pipelines.

Knowledge of Snowflake advanced capabilities such as zero-copy cloning, secure data sharing, external tables, Snowpark, dynamic tables, and masking policies. Exposure to BI/reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker and understanding of downstream analytics consumption patterns.

Why Cisco? At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds.

These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint. Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless.

We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere. We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.