Snowflake Data Engineer_AI Engineer

About Us

Kumaran Systems: Engineering Future-Ready Transformations Since 1992, Kumaran Systems has been helping enterprises bridge the past and the future, reimagining legacy systems and embracing AI-led possibilities. With over 34 years of delivery excellence, we specialise in re-engineering core applications, driving cloud transformation, and building automation-first, GenAI-enabled ecosystems across the Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, Telecom, and Automotive sectors. We help organisations not just upgrade their systems but reimagine what’s possible.

Why Kumaran?

We blend engineering discipline with AI innovation, helping clients modernise with confidence, automate with clarity, and scale with purpose. Our global delivery model ensures agility, responsiveness, and seamless collaboration, with clients always at the heart of every engagement. At Kumaran, we don’t just solve problems, we engineer future-ready transformations.

Snowflake Data Engineer / AI Engineer

Role Summary

We are looking for a Snowflake Data Engineer / AI Engineer to build and support modern Snowflake data pipelines and AI-enabled solutions. This role is best suited for someone with strong hands-on experience in Snowflake engineering and practical enterprise AI use cases, especially around LLM-enabled workflows and document data extraction.

This Is a Hybrid Role Focused On

• Snowflake AI functions and Snowflake-native AI capabilities
• Streams, Tasks, Snowpipe, and pipeline orchestration
• Data pipeline design, development, troubleshooting, and operational support
• Effective prompt design for LLM-driven workflows
• Evaluation of LLM quality and performance
• Document extraction from scanned, semi-structured, or business documents
  
  

Top Priority Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake
• Experience with Snowflake AI functions / Snowflake-native AI capabilities
• Experience using Streams, Tasks, Snowpipe, and orchestration tools
• Strong background in data pipeline design, development, troubleshooting, and support
• Experience writing effective prompts for LLM-based solutions
• Experience evaluating LLM performance, including output quality, consistency, groundedness, latency, and cost
• Experience building or supporting document extraction / intelligent document processing solutions
• Strong SQL skills
• Experience designing batch and near-real-time data workflows
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines in Snowflake
• Develop and support ingestion and transformation workflows using Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, and orchestration frameworks
• Troubleshoot pipeline performance, failures, latency issues, and data quality problems
• Build AI-enabled workflows using Snowflake AI capabilities and LLM-based patterns
• Create and refine prompts for extraction, summarization, classification, and retrieval-based use cases
• Define and apply methods to evaluate LLM performance in production
• Design document processing workflows for extracting structured data from PDFs, scanned files, forms, invoices, or similar business documents
• Implement validation, confidence scoring, exception handling, and human review where needed
• Partner with stakeholders to deliver reliable, governed, and cost-conscious solutions
  
  

Required Experience

• Experience in Snowflake data engineering
• Experience with Streams, Tasks, Snowpipe, and related Snowflake pipeline patterns
• Experience with pipeline orchestration
• Experience troubleshooting slow, unreliable, or failing data pipelines
• Experience with LLM prompts and AI workflow design
• Experience evaluating LLM or AI solution quality
• Experience with document extraction, OCR-supported workflows, or intelligent document processing
• Strong SQL and data modeling fundamentals