Senior Analyst, Data Platform Engineering

Jobtailor; Arizona; On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

United Rentals is seeking a senior data engineer to serve as the primary Snowflake administrator for Discovery accounts. You will design and maintain data pipelines, monitor performance and cost, and partner with BI and data teams to ensure data quality and timely delivery.

You will also enable AI copilots, manage security policies, and document architecture, runbooks, and data lineage for ongoing production readiness.

Qualifications

• Must have a bachelor’s degree in a technical field; master’s preferred.
• 5+ years of data engineering, database administration, or BI experience.
• Hands-on Snowflake production experience and multi-account architecture.
• Strong SQL and data ingestion/ETL tool experience.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM enablement and agent-based architectures.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Snowflake administrator for Discovery accounts and manage users, RBAC, and security policies.
• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and semantic views across data layers.
• Monitor health, performance, cost, and ensure SLAs; troubleshoot data quality issues.
• Collaborate with source owners and BI teams; document pipelines and data lineage.
• Enable AI copilots and integration with Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Cortex agents.
• Ensure platform architecture, runbooks, and knowledge base are up to date.

Skills

SQL programming

Analytical thinking

Technical documentation

Communication

Agile development

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS or related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Snowflake

Fivetran

Matillion

dbt

Postman

Tableau

Sigma

Claude

ChatGPT

Copilot

MCP Servers

Job description

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary Snowflake administrator for United Rentals' Discovery accounts
• Manage users, roles, warehouses, RBAC, RLS, CLS, security policies, and account-level configurations
• Monitor platform health, performance, and cost, tuning workloads to meet business SLAs
• Audit and remediate security issues
• Manage availability between Snowflake accounts and partner cloud or on-premises platforms
• Activate, test, and evaluate Snowflake Private Preview capabilities and recommend adoption strategies
• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines from internal and external sources
• Build and maintain transformation workflows across Foundation, Processed, and Curated data warehouse layers
• Monitor pipeline and job performance, troubleshoot failures, and resolve data quality or timeliness issues
• Partner with source system owners and corporate teams to onboard data sources and define ingestion standards
• Document pipeline design, dependencies, and data lineage
• Support enablement, testing, and rollout of AI applications and copilots including Claude, ChatGPT/Copilot, and Snowflake Cortex Agents
• Configure and monitor AI agents, including MCP server-based agent-to-agent integrations
• Partner on ontology and knowledge graph context-layer efforts
• Build and maintain curated datasets and business data models for dashboards, semantic views, and downstream agents
• Design and maintain Semantic Views for Cortex Analyst and AI/BI consumption layers
• Partner with BI and analytics teams using Sigma and Tableau
• Review data for accuracy and production readiness
• Provide Snowflake expertise and support new feature adoption across the Data & Analytics team
• Document platform architecture, runbooks, and how-to guides
• Train team members and business users on relevant tools and capabilities

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field
• Master's Degree preferred
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, database/platform administration, or business intelligence
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience administering Snowflake or a similar cloud data platform in production
• Hands-on experience with a multi-account Snowflake architecture
• Strong SQL programming skills
• Experience with data ingestion and ETL/ELT tools such as Fivetran/HVR, Matillion, dbt, Coalesce, and Postman
• Familiarity with AI/LLM enablement and tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Snowflake Cortex Code
• Familiarity with agile development practices
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills focused on practical problem-solving within constraints
• Strong technical documentation skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for daily collaboration with IT and business leads
• Experience with Tableau or Sigma is a plus
• Understanding of agentic architectures, MCP servers, and agent-to-agent communication is a plus
• Snowflake certification (SnowPro Core or Advanced) is a strong plus

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Snowflake administration, data engineering, and cloud data platform management, with a strong focus on data pipeline design, performance monitoring, and security compliance. Proficient in SQL programming and familiar with AI tools and data ingestion methodologies to support business intelligence initiatives.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Snowflake Administration
• SQL Programming
• Data Pipeline Design
• ETL/ELT Tools
• Data Engineering

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Data Engineering
• Database Administration
• SQL Programming
• Data Ingestion
• ETL Tools
• Data Pipeline Design
• Data Quality Management
• Performance Monitoring
• Security Policies
• Cloud Data Platforms

Soft Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Problem-Solving
• Technical Documentation
• Communication
• Collaboration

Certifications & Qualifications

• SnowPro Core Certification
• SnowPro Advanced Certification

Industry Keywords

• Data Warehousing
• Business Intelligence
• Agile Development
• RBAC
• RLS
• CLS
• AI/LLM Enablement
• Agentic Architectures
• Data Lineage
• Cloud Platforms

Tools & Technologies

• Snowflake
• Fivetran
• Matillion
• Dbt
• Postman
• Tableau
• Sigma
• Claude
• ChatGPT
• MCP Servers