Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer / Technical Lead

WattleCore Technologies Pty Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

WattleCore Technologies Pty Ltd seeks a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer / Technical Lead to design and deploy Snowflake solutions in a banking-sector contract role based in Sydney, NSW. You will lead architecture, security governance, and automation across environments.

You will drive CI/CD implementation, Terraform IaC, and performance tuning while providing hands-on leadership and engineering standards for the platform.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on Snowflake platform experience and administration.
• Strong RBAC, SSO, and security governance knowledge.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git-based release workflows, and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and deployment of Snowflake platform across environments.
• Define multi-tier Snowflake architecture and compute scaling.
• Implement security controls, access management, and auditing.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for Snowflake changes.
• Drive Terraform-based infrastructure automation and monitoring.

Skills

Snowflake administration

Platform architecture

RBAC & SSO

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform & IaC

Performance tuning

Enterprise scale environments

Git-based development

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer / Technical Lead

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer / Technical Lead to join our dynamic team in the banking sector. This contract role, based in Sydney, New South Wales, offers an exciting opportunity to lead the design and implementation of Snowflake solutions that enhance our data management capabilities. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in driving innovation and ensuring the reliability of our data platforms, contributing significantly to our strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

Lead the technical establishment and operationalisation of the Snowflake platform.

• Design Snowflake account, environment, and multi-tier architecture.
• Configure and administer virtual warehouses, compute scaling, and workload management.
• Implement RBAC, authentication, security policies, and access controls.
• Establish networking, connectivity, monitoring, auditing, and governance frameworks.
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Drive infrastructure automation using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimise platform performance, reliability, and cost.
• Provide technical leadership, engineering standards, and platform best practices while remaining hands-on.

Mandatory Skills

Extensive hands-on experience implementing and operating Snowflake platforms from inception.

• Deep expertise in Snowflake administration, security, and platform architecture.
• Strong knowledge of RBAC, SSO, authentication, data governance, and auditing.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git-based development, and release automation.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance optimisation capabilities.
• Experience working in large regulated enterprise environments.