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Snowflake Performance Optimization — 35% Credit Reduction

Client
US Financial Services Firm
Industry
Financial Services
Duration
4 months
35%
Lower Snowflake credits
~50%
Faster query performance
30%
Reduced pipeline downtime
1,500+
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The Challenge

Where things stood before

Snowflake credit spend was up 40% YoY with queries missing SLAs. Micro-partitions were poorly clustered and ETL patterns forced full-scans on multi-billion-row tables.

Our Approach

How we engineered the outcome

  • Profiled the top-100 warehouse queries via Query History and identified pruning gaps.
  • Introduced multi-column cluster keys, materialized views and search-optimization service where cost-justified.
  • Migrated legacy stored-procedure ETL to dbt models with tests, docs and CI/CD.
  • Standardized parameterized ADF pipeline templates reusable across use cases.
The Outcomes

Measurable business impact

35%

Lower Snowflake credits

~50%

Faster query performance

30%

Reduced pipeline downtime

1,500+

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