Global Snowflake Platform Lead

Investigo Change Solutions; Egham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Investigo Change Solutions is seeking a Global Snowflake Platform Lead to own and evolve a multi-country Snowflake environment, combining hands-on delivery with platform leadership and governance.

The role is hybrid (2/3 days on site) in the UK, with responsibility for enabling global rollouts, standards, and cross‑functional collaboration with data teams and external partners.

Qualifications

• Strong Snowflake experience in data engineering/platform environments.
• Good understanding of AWS and cloud-based data platforms.
• Experience working with international, cross‑functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the global Snowflake platform and support international rollout.
• Balance hands-on Snowflake engineering with platform strategy and leadership.
• Define standards across development, deployment, security, governance and operations.
• Collaborate with global data teams across UK, US and Europe.
• Oversee third‑party vendors and delivery partners.

Skills

Snowflake

AWS

dbt

DevOps

GitHub

CI/CD

Stakeholder management

Global collaboration

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Global Snowflake Platform Lead

Location: Egham (Hybrid - 2/3 days per week)

Salary: £90,000-£95,000 + Benefits and Bonus

Permanent

A Global Snowflake Platform Lead is required to join a leading international organisation that is continuing to develop and scale its global data platform. This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of a strategic Snowflake environment already adopted across multiple countries, combining hands-on technical delivery with platform leadership, stakeholder management and third-party vendor management.

Working across a global data and technology function, you'll help evolve the Snowflake platform, support further international rollouts and enable data teams to adopt consistent, scalable and well-governed data engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities & Skills

• Own and evolve the global Snowflake platform, supporting its continued development and international rollout.
• Balance hands-on Snowflake engineering with technical leadership, platform strategy and stakeholder engagement.
• Define and implement standards across development, deployment, security, governance and platform operations.
• Work closely with global data teams across the UK, US and Europe to enable adoption and deliver consistent platform capabilities.
• Manage and technically oversee third-party vendors and delivery partners.

Additional Experience & Attributes

• Strong commercial experience with Snowflake within a data engineering or platform environment.
• Good understanding of AWS and cloud-based data platforms, alongside experience with dbt.
• Experience with DevOps, GitHub and CI/CD-based development and deployment practices.
• Experience working across global teams, multiple business units and/or federated technology environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to remain hands-on while operating strategically.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a global organisation and play a key role in the continued development of a large-scale Snowflake platform. You'll have the opportunity to work across modern cloud data technologies, influence global platform standards and support the adoption of data and AI capabilities across multiple international business units.