Hands-On Data Platform Manager (Snowflake)

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

Job summary

Strata Decision Technology in Chicago, IL is seeking a Manager of Data Platform Engineering to lead the data and analytics platforms centered on Snowflake. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring you to design, automate, operate, and troubleshoot critical platform components, while guiding a small team.

You will own Snowflake architecture, security, governance, cost management, and PostgreSQL operations, and collaborate with Security and Infrastructure to meet enterprise requirements.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on Snowflake administration, security, performance, and cost control.
• Strong SQL skills with experience troubleshooting complex data workloads.
• Experience implementing least-privilege access, service identities, credentials management, and auditing.
• Strong AWS knowledge and cloud security concepts for data platforms.
• Experience with Terraform, Python, and Git-based CI/CD.
• Experience with dbt and data-transformation tooling.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and relational databases.
• Incident response and production troubleshooting experience.

Responsibilities

• Own Snowflake architecture, roadmap, administration, and engineering standards.
• Configure and operate Snowflake compute, storage, networking, integrations, and platform services.
• Build automation with SQL, Python, and APIs to improve reliability.
• Maintain Git-based CI/CD for platform configuration and deployment.
• Lead a small team of database and platform professionals.
• Partner with Security and Infrastructure to align Snowflake with requirements.
• Improve auditability and access control across the data platform.
• Drive performance and cost optimization of Snowflake and related components.

Skills

Snowflake

SQL

AWS

Terraform

Python

dbt

PostgreSQL

Incident response

Team leadership

Security governance

Tools

Satori

Git CI/CD

Job description

Strata Decision Technology in Chicago, IL is seeking a Manager of Data Platform Engineering to lead the data and analytics platforms centered on Snowflake. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring you to design, automate, operate, and troubleshoot critical platform components, while guiding a small team.

You will own Snowflake architecture, security, governance, cost management, and PostgreSQL operations, and collaborate with Security and Infrastructure to meet enterprise requirements.