Senior Data Platform Engineer, Snowflake

Qualifications of this Role

• 5+ years of professional data platform, data engineering, or data infrastructure experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience at production scale (not pilot/POC).
• Demonstrated expertise in Snowflake RBAC design, warehouse sizing and cost governance, performance tuning, and security features.
• Strong SQL — able to read and optimize a query profile.
• Python for tooling, automation, and pipelines.
• Production IaC experience — Terraform required; Snowflake provider strongly preferred.
• Database CI/CD using Schemachange, Liquibase, dbt, or equivalent change-management tooling.
• Cloud fluency in AWS — networking, IAM, storage, and Snowflake integration points.
• Ingestion experience with Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, Kafka, and/or Fivetran/Airbyte.
• Communication — able to author decision records and runbooks; able to influence without authority.
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS SnowPro Advanced certification (Architect, Data Engineer, or Administrator). Hands-on dbt and modern Analytics Engineering experience. Experience with Snowflake Horizon Catalog, Polaris, Collibra, or Alation. Streaming and CDC: Kafka, Debezium, Snowpipe Streaming, Dynamic Tables. Iceberg / lakehouse architecture. Data observability tooling (Monte Carlo, Bigeye, Datadog). Automotive, financial services, insurance, or regulated consumer-data experience. AI/ML workloads on Snowflake (Cortex, Snowpark, feature stores).
• SnowPro Advanced certification (Architect, Data Engineer, or Administrator).
• Hands-on dbt and modern Analytics Engineering experience.
• Experience with Snowflake Horizon Catalog, Polaris, Collibra, or Alation.
• Streaming and CDC: Kafka, Debezium, Snowpipe Streaming, Dynamic Tables.
• Iceberg / lakehouse architecture.
• Data observability tooling (Monte Carlo, Bigeye, Datadog).
• Automotive, financial services, insurance, or regulated consumer-data experience.
• AI/ML workloads on Snowflake (Cortex, Snowpark, feature stores).
• This position has a starting salary range of $120K -$150K USD/$110K -$120K CAD per year. This is the range we reasonably and in good faith expect to pay for the role at the time of posting. An employee’s pay within the range is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, education, qualifications, experience, performance, business or organizational needs, and geographic location.
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