Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer

Position Overview

What You’ll Do

Governance & Security

• Manage Snowflake user/role provisioning, RBAC, object-level access, and network policies.

• Implement SSO (Okta or AzureAD), MFA, and key-pair authentication mechanisms.

• Enforce data masking, row-level security, and tagging policies for compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, etc).

Cost Optimization

• Set up and maintain resource monitors, auto-suspend/resume policies, and usage tracking.

• Partner with finance to build cost attribution and chargeback models across business units.

• Tune warehouse sizing and query usage to minimize consumption while maintaining performance.

Automation & DevOps

• Automate Snowflake object deployment and permission management using Terraform, Liquibase, or other IaC tools.

• Integrate Snowflake into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins).

• Own platform configuration standards across environments (dev, test, prod).

Monitoring & Performance

• Monitor platform health using Snowflake’s Account Usage schema and integrate with observability platforms like Datadog, Splunk, or CloudWatch.

• Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks at the query, warehouse, and workload levels.

• Lead tuning and optimization efforts to ensure scalable, reliable Snowflake operations.

Collaboration & Platform Evolution

• Serve as subject matter expert for all things Snowflake—partnering with engineering, InfoSec, DevOps, and data teams.

• Define and enforce naming conventions, tagging policies, and data sharing protocols.

• Evaluate and implement new Snowflake features (e.g., Native Apps, Snowpark, Streams/Tasks).

What You’ll Bring

• 7+ years of experience in data platforms, with 3+ years administering Snowflake in a production environment.

• Proven expertise in Snowflake account management, warehouse optimization, and cost governance.

• Strong understanding of RBAC, network security, SSO, and data protection standards.

• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code.

• Familiarity with data ingestion pipelines (e.g., Snowpipe, ADF, Fivetran) and how they interact with Snowflake.

• Ability to proactively monitor and tune the platform, enforce policies, and scale with demand.

• Knowledge of observability tools and alerting practices.

Preferred Skills

• SnowPro Core or SnowPro Advanced (Admin or Architect) Certification

• Experience integrating Snowflake with tools like Alation, Collibra, Power BI, Tableau, or Databricks

• Familiarity with Erwin or other data modeling tools

• Experience working in regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, finance) a plus

What This Role Is Not

• Not a BI Developer or Analyst

• Not a Data Engineer focused on building ELT pipelines

• This is a platform engineer role owning infrastructure, security, performance, and cost management of Snowflake