Data Platform Engineering Manager - Snowflake & Automation

Strata Decision Technology, LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 155,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Strata Decision Technology, LLC in Chicago, IL seeks a Manager of Data Platform Engineering to lead our data and analytics platform with Snowflake at the center. This hands-on leadership role combines architecture, automation, and incident-ready operations across Snowflake and PostgreSQL.

You will mentor a small team, drive platform improvements, and collaborate with security and infrastructure to meet enterprise requirements while maintaining reliability and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on Snowflake expertise across administration, security, performance, cost optimization, automation, and production architecture.
• Strong SQL skills and demonstrated experience troubleshooting and optimizing complex data workloads.
• Experience implementing least-privilege access, service identities, privileged access, credential management, access lifecycle controls, and auditing.
• Strong AWS experience and an understanding of the cloud infrastructure and security concepts surrounding modern data platforms.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred), Python or similar automation languages, and Git-based CI/CD.
• Experience working with dbt or similar modern data-transformation tooling.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL or strong relational database fundamentals.
• Experience supporting production systems and participating in incident response and operational troubleshooting.
• Ability to set technical direction, implement solutions, and lead technical professionals.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and influence across engineering teams.
• Sound judgment balancing security, reliability, performance, cost, and productivity.

Responsibilities

• Own Snowflake architecture, roadmap, administration, and engineering standards.
• Configure and operate Snowflake compute, storage, networking, integrations, and platform services.
• Create reusable patterns, automation, and guardrails that enable teams to deliver safely and efficiently.
• Oversee AWS RDS PostgreSQL configuration, security, backup, and recovery for product applications.
• Design and automate least-privilege security and access controls, including RBAC and credentials.

Skills

Snowflake

SQL

Python

AWS

PostgreSQL

dbt

Tools

Terraform

Git

CI/CD

dbt

Job description

Strata Decision Technology, LLC in Chicago, IL seeks a Manager of Data Platform Engineering to lead our data and analytics platform with Snowflake at the center. This hands-on leadership role combines architecture, automation, and incident-ready operations across Snowflake and PostgreSQL.

You will mentor a small team, drive platform improvements, and collaborate with security and infrastructure to meet enterprise requirements while maintaining reliability and cost efficiency.