Senior Snowflake Platform Lead | Data Platform & Automation

Zip Co; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-sponsored education & certs

Flexible work hours

Hybrid work option

Job summary

Zip Co in Sydney seeks an experienced Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer/Technical Lead to design and implement robust Snowflake solutions for our banking-sector data platforms. You will lead the platform's technical establishment, security posture, and CI/CD automation while hands-on delivering reliable data infrastructure.

Initial 3-month contract with potential extension, based in Sydney CBD. The role requires deep Snowflake expertise, enterprise-scale governance, and strong collaboration

Qualifications

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

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.

Skills

Snowflake platform administration

RBAC and security policies

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform / IaC

AWS cloud experience

Performance/tuning

Large regulated enterprise experience

Tools

Terraform

Git-based release

CI/CD tooling

AWS

Job description

Zip Co in Sydney seeks an experienced Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer/Technical Lead to design and implement robust Snowflake solutions for our banking-sector data platforms. You will lead the platform's technical establishment, security posture, and CI/CD automation while hands-on delivering reliable data infrastructure.

Initial 3-month contract with potential extension, based in Sydney CBD. The role requires deep Snowflake expertise, enterprise-scale governance, and strong collaboration