Senior Cloud & Data Platform Engineer (AWS + Snowflake)

KData Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

KData Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud / Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate modern cloud data platforms with strong AWS and Snowflake expertise.

You will lead data integration pipelines, IaC practices, governance, and observability to deliver scalable data solutions. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience across AWS and Snowflake ecosystems, can work autonomously, and will drive platform automation and cross-functional collaboration to enable BI and data apps across the

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience as a Data Engineer or Cloud Data Platform Engineer.
• Strong, demonstrated hands-on experience in the AWS and Snowflake ecosystems.
• Highly autonomous mindset with ability to be immediately operational.

Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture & Engineering: Build, operate, and maintain scalable, high-performance cloud data platforms and self-service data capabilities.
• Data Integration & Pipelines: Design and deploy robust batch and real-time data integration pipelines using Apache NiFi, Airflow, and Kafka.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implement IaC and modern GitOps/CI/CD practices using Terraform and GitHub.
• Security & Governance: Enforce enterprise data governance, security, and access controls using RBAC, dynamic data masking, data contracts, and MFT.
• Data Sharing & Modeling: Leverage Snowflake data sharing and hybrid tables for cross-organizational data exchange.
• Analytics & Visualization Enablement: Enable BI and data apps using Power BI and Streamlit.
• Observability & Support: Implement end-to-end data observability, monitoring, and operational integration with ServiceNow.

Skills

Senior-level experience

Autonomous mindset

Hands-on AWS & Snowflake

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

dbt

Apache NiFi

Apache Airflow

Kafka

Terraform

GitHub

Power BI

Streamlit

ServiceNow

Job description

KData Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud / Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate modern cloud data platforms with strong AWS and Snowflake expertise.

You will lead data integration pipelines, IaC practices, governance, and observability to deliver scalable data solutions. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience across AWS and Snowflake ecosystems, can work autonomously, and will drive platform automation and cross-functional collaboration to enable BI and data apps across the