Sydney-based Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer & Tech Lead

Intrax Consulting Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 166,000 - 240,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration package

Access to industry-leading technology

Professional development and certs

Job summary

Intrax Consulting Group is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer / Technical Lead in Sydney to design and operate our Snowflake data platform. This hands-on leadership role focuses on architecture, security, CI/CD integration, and cost optimisation within a regulated banking environment.

You will guide multi-tier architectures, implement governance, RBAC, and SSO, and drive automation using Terraform and Git-based workflows while mentoring engineers and ensuring platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Experience implementing and operating Snowflake platforms from inception.
• Snowflake administration and platform security expertise.
• RBAC, SSO, authentication, data governance, auditing.
• CI/CD pipelines, Git-based development, and release automation.
• AWS cloud experience.
• Terraform and IaC experience.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization capabilities.
• Experience working 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 design

Platform administration

RBAC & authentication

CI/CD pipelines

AWS cloud

Infrastructure as Code

Troubleshooting

Regulated enterprises

Tools

Terraform

Git

Job description

Intrax Consulting Group is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer / Technical Lead in Sydney to design and operate our Snowflake data platform. This hands-on leadership role focuses on architecture, security, CI/CD integration, and cost optimisation within a regulated banking environment.

You will guide multi-tier architectures, implement governance, RBAC, and SSO, and drive automation using Terraform and Git-based workflows while mentoring engineers and ensuring platform reliability.