Data Engineer · Senior · Salesforce

the posting, the skills it asks for, and the plan to get there

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Data Engineering Senior Associate

Ireland - DublinSenior3–7 yrsData Engineerposted today

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life.

Skills, with evidence

  • Airflow / orchestration
    Experience with Apache Airflow workflow development, scheduling, and monitoring.must have
  • Data quality
    Perform data validation, source-to-target reconciliation, completeness checks, and failed-job recovery to ensure reliable data delivery.must have
  • Python
    Hands-on experience with Python and Snowflake.must have
  • SQL
    Strong SQL development, data analysis, and production troubleshooting skills.must have
  • Warehousing
    Knowledge of data warehouse concepts, including fact and dimension tables, star and snowflake schemas, conformed dimensions, and Slowly Changing Dimensions.must have
  • Failure handling
    Design, maintain, and monitor Apache Airflow DAGs for scheduling, workflow orchestration, dependency management, retries, and failure recovery.
  • Data modelling
    Knowledge of data warehouse concepts, including fact and dimension tables, star and snowflake schemas, conformed dimensions, and Slowly Changing Dimensions.
  • Incremental loads
    Familiarity with Salesforce data models and tools such as Bulk API, REST API, Platform Events, or Change Data Capture.
  • Dashboards & BI
    Tableau reporting and dashboard-development experience.not practised here

Your plan

  1. 2 h
  2. 3 h
  3. Data modelling: the round most people fail

    Warehousing · Data modelling

    3 h
  4. Pipeline design: safe to run twice

    Airflow / orchestration · Failure handling · Incremental loads

    4 h
  5. 1 h
20 drills · Intermediate + Advanced12 hours

Not covered by the plan: Dashboards & BI.

Readiness

Counted from drills you have completed anywhere on D8LooP.

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Data Engineering Senior Associate at Salesforce: skills and prep plan · D8LooP