Vincent Chen

Senior Data Engineer · Snowflake Platform · AWS · Azure

Greater Melbourne Area

About

Senior Data Engineer with 5+ years of experience, specialising in Snowflake platform engineering and enterprise data infrastructure. Current engagement: ground-up design and operation of a large-scale Snowflake EDP — RBAC governance across 400+ databases, ingestion pipeline architecture across OData, REST APIs, S3, SQL Server, Oracle, and SharePoint sources, Openflow (Apache Nifi) migration at scale, AWS multi-account networking, platform security (key pair auth, OAuth, network policy), CI/CD automation, and AI integration via Snowflake Document AI and Cortex. Prior consulting at Deloitte and KPMG includes leading a data engineering team on a $3M integration critical to a major bank merger (Databricks, dbt, PySpark), building Snowflake platform assets for a large Australian retailer under tight delivery constraints, designing a GCP pipeline to ingest a 150GB+ district-wide data backlog, and delivering defence analytics for an Australian Defence Force procurement engagement. Mathematics & Statistics graduate (University of Melbourne) with applied data science experience in NLP and computer vision. Tracks the LLM and AI tooling landscape actively.

Experience

  • Senior Consultant | Data Engineer at Altis Consulting
    Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Data Engineer at AGL
    Jan 2024 - Sep 2024 · 9 mos

  • Consultant | Data Engineer at Deloitte
    Apr 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Consultant at KPMG
    Jul 2021 - Apr 2022 · 10 mos

  • Academic Tutor at Private Practice & Tutoring Agencies
    Jan 2017 - Jun 2021 · 4 yrs 6 mos