Remote Snowflake Data Platform Engineer | Terraform & CI/CD

J.D. Power; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

JD Power seeks a Data Platform Engineer to execute and extend Snowflake platform patterns, manage Snowflake objects via Terraform, and run CI/CD for database changes. You will configure ingestion pipelines and respond to platform alerts, growing into a senior-level engineer over time.

The role emphasizes production readiness, security policy implementation, and collaboration with analytics teams to deliver scalable data solutions across the JD Power stack.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of professional software, data, or platform engineering experience.
• Strong SQL — joins, window functions, CTEs, and explain plans.
• Python for scripting, automation, and data work.
• Cloud data warehouse experience — Snowflake preferred; Redshift/BigQuery/Databricks SQL experience considered.
• Version control in Git workflows with branching, code review, and CI/CD.
• Some Infrastructure‑as‑Code exposure — Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of dbt — read models, write tests, and run dbt in CI.
• Cloud fluency in AWS or Azure — IAM, storage, networking basics.
• Production experience — shipped code to production and on-call support.
• Clear PR descriptions, questions, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Implement Snowflake objects, roles, and policies in Terraform per patterns.
• Author database migrations using Schemachange/Liquibase and CI/CD.
• Own and operate CI/CD pipelines for dbt models in production.
• Apply masking and row-access policies to new data domains.
• Tune queries and warehouses using profiling techniques.
• Configure, deploy, and maintain ingestion pipelines for source systems.
• Manage Fivetran/Airbyte connectors for sources.
• Build Snowpipe and Streams/Tasks workflows for ingestion patterns.
• Partner with Analytics Engineering to land data in downstream shapes.
• Participate in on-call rotation, respond to alerts, triage incidents, and write postmortems.

Skills

SQL

Python

Snowflake

Terraform

dbt

Git workflows

CI/CD

AWS/Azure

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

Snowflake

Terraform

Liquibase

dbt

Fivetran

Airbyte

Job description

JD Power seeks a Data Platform Engineer to execute and extend Snowflake platform patterns, manage Snowflake objects via Terraform, and run CI/CD for database changes. You will configure ingestion pipelines and respond to platform alerts, growing into a senior-level engineer over time.

The role emphasizes production readiness, security policy implementation, and collaboration with analytics teams to deliver scalable data solutions across the JD Power stack.