Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer / Technical Lead

Nixil Pty; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Nixil Pty in Sydney is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer / Technical Lead to drive platform implementation, establish secure and scalable environments, and support data-platform modernisation within a large, regulated enterprise.

This role requires hands-on leadership while remaining actively involved in engineering, automation and production support, shaping architecture and delivering practical Snowflake solutions on a modern data stack.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Snowflake platform implementation and production readiness.
• Experience in regulated enterprises (banking/financial services).
• Strong AWS experience and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on Snowflake platform implementation from the ground up.
• Design, configure and administer Snowflake accounts and environments.
• Manage virtual warehouses, workloads and resource monitoring.
• Implement RBAC, security, authentication and access controls.
• Establish networking, connectivity, monitoring and auditing capabilities.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimise platform performance and resource usage.

Skills

Snowflake platform engineering

Banking / financial-services domain

AWS

Terraform & IaC

dbt

Snowpark / Python

Teradata / legacy data-platform modern

Snowflake certifications

Job description

• You must have hands-on experience establishing and operationalising the Snowflake platform itself—from initial architecture and configuration through security, automation and production readiness.
• Experience limited to developing data pipelines, models or analytics solutions on an existing Snowflake platform will not meet this requirement.

• Initial 3-month contract with the option to extend | Office-based in Sydney CBD
• Build a Snowflake platform from the ground up and take a hands-on technical leadership role.

We’re seeking an experienced Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer / Technical Lead to drive platform implementation, establish secure and scalable environments, and support data-platform modernisation within a large, regulated enterprise.

This opportunity suits a technical leader who enjoys shaping platform architecture while remaining actively involved in engineering, automation and production support.

What you’ll do

• Lead hands-on Snowflake platform implementation from the ground up.
• Design, configure and administer Snowflake accounts and environments.
• Manage virtual warehouses, workloads and resource monitoring.
• Implement role-based access control (RBAC), security, authentication and access controls.
• Establish networking, connectivity, monitoring and auditing capabilities.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimise platform performance and resource usage.
• Provide technical direction and engineering guidance while remaining hands-on.

Essential skills and experience

• Proven hands-on Snowflake platform engineering and implementation experience.
• Banking or financial-services experience, including work within large, regulated enterprise environments.
• Strong AWS experience.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Hands-on experience with dbt and Snowpark/Python.
• Experience with Teradata or legacy data-platform modernisation.
• Relevant Snowflake certifications.
• Ability to lead technical delivery while contributing directly to implementation and troubleshooting.