Snowflake Platform Engineer

Best Buy Canada; British Columbia; Hybrid; CAD 113,000 - 119,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology retail company based in Vancouver, BC, is seeking an experienced Snowflake Platform Engineer to lead the design and optimization of Snowflake solutions. You will work in a remote-first environment while ensuring the reliability and scalability of data solutions. Ideal candidates have over 5 years of experience in Snowflake engineering and a strong grasp of data governance practices. Competitive compensation and employee benefits are offered.

Benefits

Employee discounts on tech

Flexible health benefits

Matched company pension plan

Training programs for skills development

Qualifications

• 5+ years of enterprise experience in Snowflake engineering, administration, and governance.
• Expertise with CI/CD pipelines and automation for Snowflake.
• Proficiency in data security and governance.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, administer, and optimize Snowflake for large-scale enterprise use.
• Implement governance practices including security policies.
• Monitor and forecast platform performance and costs.

Skills

Snowflake engineering

Data ingestion

Data transformation

CI/CD pipelines

Data security

Governance practices

Azure services

Job description

Snowflake Platform Engineer

Are you passionate about working with Snowflake?

As a Snowflake platform engineer within our data platforms team, you will lead the design, development, and optimization of enterprise-scale Snowflake solutions. This is a hands-on role where you’ll not only build Snowflake capabilities, but also be accountable for their reliability, high availability, transactional integrity, and recovery when outages occur.

You’ll collaborate with cross functional teams to ensure seamless integration, performance, and scalability across our data ecosystem.

We practice a remote-first working model, leveraging in-person interactions at our head office, in beautiful Vancouver, BC, for strategic, collaborative, and social purposes.

Join our innovative team as a Snowflake platform engineer.

What you’ll do

• Engineer, administer, and optimize Snowflake for large-scale enterprise use.
• Implement governance practices including access control, security policies, and data masking.
• Design and optimize bronze, silver, and gold data quality zones within Snowflake.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake, integrating automation to streamline development, deployment, and testing.
• Apply data remediation techniques to detect, resolve, and prevent data quality issues.
• Automate Snowflake operations (provisioning, monitoring, optimization, cost management).
• Own platform accountability — ensuring high availability, transactional reliability, and incident recovery.
• Monitor and forecast platform performance, capacity, and costs.

What we are looking for

• 5+ years of enterprise experience in Snowflake engineering, administration, and governance.
• Strong knowledge of data ingestion, transformation, and reporting within Snowflake.
• Experience designing and managing bronze, silver, and gold data quality zones.
• Expertise with CI/CD pipelines, automation, and deployment frameworks for Snowflake. We use Git and Git Actions wherever possible.
• Practical knowledge of data remediation (error detection, correction, and prevention).
• Proficiency in data security, RBAC, and governance (access management, data masking, compliance).
• Familiarity with Azure ecosystem services (ADF, Synapse, Data Lake).
• Peripheral knowledge of data lineage, cataloging, and metadata management concepts.

Why you’ll love it here

• Employee discounts on awesome tech from day one.
• Flexible health benefits and wellness program.
• TFSA and RRSP programs.
• 100% matched company pension plan.
• Training programs to build new and transferable skills.

About Best Buy

As Canada's destination for the coolest tech, Best Buy offers one of the best work environments in the country! Our culture is one of inclusiveness and belonging and provides employees an environment where they can bring their whole selves to work.

We believe in a fair and inclusive hiring process. We encourage you to apply even if you may not meet all the requirements.

Join our amazing team — we’re looking for people just like you!

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Annualized base pay range

$113,000.00 - $119,000.00

Starting pay offered will consider skills and experience. Your pay can grow as you build your career with us.

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