Principal Analytics Engineer

Crisis Prevention Institute; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive compensation package

Comprehensive benefits package

401k

PTO

Health & Wellness Days

Paid Volunteer Time Off

Continuing education and training

Hybrid / Remote work schedule

Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

Crisis Prevention Institute is seeking a Principal Analytics Engineer to serve as the senior data platform owner for the enterprise Snowflake environment. You will drive architecture, security, and governance across ingestion, transformation, and data-serving patterns while enabling AI-enabled analytics and scalable data access for stakeholders.

You will partner with security, analytics, BI, and business teams to design and implement reliable, cost-effective data solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in data/analytics engineering or cloud data architecture.
• Extensive hands-on experience architecting, administering, securing, and operating Snowflake in an enterprise environment.
• Experience designing and owning production ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data-serving patterns across a modern cloud data stack.
• Proven senior technical authority, reviewing architecture, mentoring engineers, and leading complex platform issues.
• Experience partnering with security, infrastructure, applications, analytics, AI, and business teams to deliver secure, governed enterprise data capabilities.
• Expert-level Snowflake knowledge spanning warehouses, data sharing, security, monitoring, and governance.
• Expert SQL and data modeling, ingestion, orchestration, testing, observability, version control, and release automation.
• Understanding of enterprise security, governance patterns, least privilege, auditing, privacy, and data lifecycle management.
• Strong knowledge of AI-enabled data architectures, including MCP configurations and governed data access.

Responsibilities

• Design and govern the enterprise Snowflake platform and its data ecosystem.
• Oversee ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data-serving patterns across Snowflake, Fivetran, and Power BI.
• Set platform standards for performance, reliability, observability, testing, DR, and cost optimization.
• Implement Snowflake security, including RBAC, network policies, data protection, auditing, and secure data sharing with InfoSec.
• Act as senior architecture authority, review major designs, and ensure alignment with enterprise goals.
• Enable AI use cases with MCP configurations, access controls, and pattern guidance for agents and tools.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns and reference architectures to improve quality and delivery.
• Collaborate with analytics engineers, BI, AI, applications, infra, security, and business partners to deliver trusted capabilities.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production, performance, integration, and security issues; lead root-cause analysis.
• Provide deep technical mentorship without people management responsibilities.
• Define and monitor platform health, adoption, SLAs, cost, and roadmap.

Skills

Snowflake

Data engineering

Cloud data architecture

Security & governance

AI enablement patterns

Stakeholder management

Mentorship

SQL

Data modeling

Observability

Communication

Architecture review

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Snowflake

Fivetran

Power BI

CI/CD

Job description

Our Story:

Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc. (CPI) is the worldwide leader in evidence‑based de‑escalation and crisis prevention training and dementia care services. Our programs teach professionals the skills to recognize, prevent, and respond to crises in the workplace. Since 1980, we’ve helped train more than 17 million people across service‑oriented industries including education, health care, behavioral health, long‑term care, human services, security, corporate, and retail.

At CPI, we are dedicated to changing behaviors and reducing conflict for the Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security of everyone. We believe empathy, meaningful connections, personal safety, and security are the antidotes to fear and anxiety. This philosophy is central to everything we do and traces back to our beginning.

As a member of the team, you can expect to:

• Make a difference through your work — You’ll be proud to tell your family and friends what you do.
• Gain significant career experience within a fast‑growing organization — From entry‑level roles to executive leadership.
• Feel fulfilled and have fun — We work hard but make time to build meaningful relationships and celebrate wins.

The Role:

The Principal Analytics Engineer is the organization’s most senior individual contributor for the enterprise data platform and serves as the end‑to‑end technical owner of Snowflake and its supporting ecosystem. This role is accountable for platform architecture, ingestion, data transformation, performance, reliability, security, governance, cost optimization, and operational excellence. The position reviews and guides architectural decisions across the data team, establishes engineering standards, and enables trusted analytics and AI capabilities, including secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) configurations and governed access to enterprise data. Working closely across the entire data team and with technology, security, AI, and business partners, this role is critical to driving successful, scalable Snowflake adoption across the enterprise.

What You Get to Do Every Day:

• Own the strategy, architecture, administration, reliability, and continuous evolution of the enterprise Snowflake platform and its supporting data ecosystem.
• Design and oversee scalable ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data‑serving patterns across Snowflake, Fivetran, Power BI, and complementary technologies.
• Set and enforce platform standards for performance, workload management, reliability, observability, testing, deployment, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
• Own the technical implementation of Snowflake security, including roles and access controls, authentication, network policies, data protection, auditing, privacy, and secure data sharing in partnership with Information Security.
• Serve as the senior architecture authority for the data platform by reviewing major designs, challenging tradeoffs, reducing unnecessary complexity, and ensuring decisions align with enterprise architecture, governance, and long‑term maintainability.
• Lead the technical enablement of AI use cases on governed enterprise data, including secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and client configurations, tool access patterns, data interfaces, and controls for AI‑assistant workflows and agents.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns, reference architectures, coding practices, documentation expectations, and review processes that improve quality and delivery across the data team.
• Partner closely with analytics engineers, BI professionals, AI teams, application teams, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to deliver trusted platform capabilities and accelerate enterprise adoption.
• Diagnose and resolve the most complex production, performance, integration, and security issues; lead root‑cause analysis and drive durable remediation.
• Provide deep technical mentorship and influence across the data team without direct people‑management responsibility, raising engineering capability and guiding critical decisions.
• Define and monitor platform health, adoption, service levels, cost, and value metrics; maintain a prioritized technical roadmap that supports successful Snowflake adoption across the enterprise.

You Need to Have:

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 10 years of progressive experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, data platform engineering, cloud data architecture, or a closely related field, including ownership of business‑critical production data platforms.
• Extensive hands‑on experience architecting, administering, securing, optimizing, and operating Snowflake in an enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience designing and owning production ingestion, transformation, orchestration, observability, and data‑serving patterns across a modern cloud data stack.
• Demonstrated success serving as a senior technical authority, reviewing architecture, influencing cross‑functional decisions, mentoring experienced engineers, and leading resolution of complex platform issues.
• Experience partnering with security, infrastructure, application, analytics, AI, and business teams to deliver secure, governed, highly adopted enterprise data capabilities.
• Expert‑level Snowflake knowledge spanning architecture, administration, virtual warehouses, workload management, performance tuning, cost governance, data sharing, replication, recovery, security, monitoring, and operational support.
• Expert SQL and deep knowledge of data modeling, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, testing, observability, version control, release automation, and production engineering practices.
• Deep understanding of enterprise security and governance patterns, including least‑privilege access, role design, authentication, network controls, encryption, secrets management, auditing, privacy, lineage, and data lifecycle management.
• Strong knowledge of AI‑enablement patterns for enterprise data, including secure MCP configuration, governed data access, retrieval and tool‑integration patterns, and controls for AI‑assistant applications and agents.
• Exceptional architecture judgment and the ability to evaluate tradeoffs across simplicity, scalability, security, performance, cost, governance, resilience, and maintainability.
• Ability to lead through technical influence, conduct rigorous design and code reviews, mentor experienced practitioners, establish standards, and build alignment across teams without relying on formal authority.
• Strong communication, consulting, and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to explain complex platform decisions to technical and executive audiences and connect engineering choices to business outcomes.
• Demonstrated ownership, sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to operate independently across high‑impact priorities while partnering closely across the data team and enterprise.

We’d Love to See:

• Deep experience with Snowflake‑native capabilities, ingestion technologies such as Fivetran, cloud services, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and enterprise business intelligence platforms such as Power BI.
• Experience designing secure AI‑ready data architectures, including retrieval patterns, agent or tool integrations, natural‑language analytics, vector or unstructured data capabilities, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) configurations.
• Experience designing enterprise semantic layers, governed metrics, metadata, lineage, data quality, privacy controls, and self‑service analytics capabilities.
• Experience simplifying or modernizing complex data platforms and leading enterprise‑scale platform adoption or migration initiatives.
• Relevant Snowflake, cloud architecture, security, data engineering, or Power BI certifications are beneficial but not required.

What We Offer:

• Comprehensive compensation package
• Comprehensive benefits package
• 401k
• PTO
• Health & Wellness Days
• Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Continuing education and training
• Hybrid / Remote work schedule
• Paid Parental Leave

Crisis Prevention Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of age, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, sex, sexualorientation, gender, gender identity, or expression (including against any individual that is transitioning, hastransitioned, or is perceived to be transitioning), marital status or civil partnership/union status, physical ormental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, childbirth, genetic information, military and veteran status, orany other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. The Company will consider foremployment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federalrequirements. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement,promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, and general treatment duringemployment.