Hire Snowflake developers who optimize for both performance and cost. Snowflake separates compute from storage — which means a badly designed query runs on an XL warehouse when a Small would suffice. Snowflake developers who understand warehouse sizing, clustering keys, materialized views, and the billing model save 40-60% on compute costs.
Production Snowflake requires: warehouse architecture (dedicated vs shared, auto-suspend policies), data modeling (star schema, vault, OBT), security (RBAC, masking policies, row access), and pipeline automation (Streams, Tasks, dbt).