Senior Data Platform Engineer

WorkTrust Solutions; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

WorkTrust Solutions is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize its cloud data platform built on Snowflake and Microsoft Azure. This hands-on role requires deep infrastructure understanding, security-first mindset, and ability to troubleshoot complex issues across production environments.

You will collaborate with Data Architecture and Platform Operations, automate processes, and mentor junior engineers while driving reliability, performance, and cost efficiency

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with cloud data platforms and data engineering.
• Hands-on work with Snowflake and Azure data services in production.
• Administering, securing, and optimizing enterprise data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of database architecture, performance tuning, backup and recovery.
• Ability to automate platform administration using scripting and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, implement, and support Snowflake and Azure data platform solutions.
• Design and support enterprise database and cloud data platform workloads.
• Translate target-state architectures into implementable designs and scalable solutions.
• Lead hands-on implementation across SQL Server, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Snowflake, and related platforms.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure, deployment standards, automation routines, and operational processes.
• Support deployment pipelines, CI/CD, release activities, change management reviews, and production readiness assessments.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior engineers and platform staff.
• Optimize Snowflake workloads, warehouses, query performance, resource utilization, and costs.
• Develop automation, monitoring, and repeatable operational procedures for reliability.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and knowledge-transfer materials.

Skills

Snowflake

Azure

Data platforms

Database engineering

Automation

CI/CD

DevOps

Tools

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

We have been engaged in a national search for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help engineer, optimize, secure, and support its enterprise data platform ecosystem, with a primary focus on Snowflake and Microsoft Azure.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who understands the underlying infrastructure, services, security, and operational processes that make enterprise data platforms reliable, scalable, and efficient.

Working closely with Data Architecture, Platform Operations, and business stakeholders, you will evaluate the current environment, address technical challenges, implement platform enhancements, and establish repeatable processes and automation.

The ideal candidate combines strong cloud data platform expertise with database administration fundamentals, a security-first mindset, and the ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues.

Work Environment: This is a fully remote career opportunity. Remote employees must currently live in one of the following states: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia.

In this role you will:

• Engineer, configure, implement, and support Snowflake and Microsoft Azure data platform solutions.
• Design, engineer, implement, configure, and support enterprise database and cloud data platform solutions supporting operational, analytical, reporting, and data integration workloads.
• Partner with Data Architects to translate target-state architectures, technology roadmaps, modernization initiatives, and business requirements into implementable engineering designs and operationally sustainable solutions.
• Lead hands-on implementation and support activities across Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Snowflake, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, and related enterprise data platforms.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure, platform configurations, deployment standards, automation routines, and operational processes that improve platform reliability, scalability, security, performance, and supportability.
• Support database deployment pipelines, CI/CD processes, release activities, change management reviews, and production readiness assessments.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior engineers, database administrators, contractors, and platform support personnel.
• Optimize Snowflake workloads, virtual warehouses, query performance, resource utilization, and platform costs.
• Develop automation, deployment processes, monitoring, and repeatable operational procedures to improve reliability and efficiency.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation including engineering designs, implementation guides, support procedures, platform standards, architecture diagrams, operational documentation, and knowledge-transfer materials.

The appropriate individual will have demonstrated background in the following:

• Enterprise data platform engineering, cloud data platforms, database engineering and database administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake and Microsoft Azure data services in production environments.
• Administering, configuring, securing, and optimizing enterprise data platforms.
• Strong understanding of database architecture, performance tuning, query optimization, storage, availability, backup and recovery, and troubleshooting.
• Implementing security controls, access management, and least-privilege principles.
• Understanding of data integration patterns, ETL/ELT architectures, API integration concepts, and data movement technologies.
• Ability to automate platform administration and operational processes using scripting, APIs, or cloud-native tools.
• Supporting production environments and resolving complex technical issues.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• SQL Server, PostgreSQL, EDB Postgres, Oracle, or other enterprise database technologies.
• Salesforce Data Cloud or other enterprise customer data platforms.
• Power BI, Tableau, or other enterprise reporting and analytics environments.
• Understanding of ETL/ELT processes, data integration patterns, and data movement technologies.
• CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring and observability, and DevOps/DataOps practices.
• Cloud migration, platform modernization, disaster recovery, and high-availability solutions.
• Relevant Snowflake, Microsoft Azure, or database technology certifications.

Please Note: This is a full-time employee role. Our client is not sponsoring visas for this role. This is not a contract opportunity and is not open to C2C arrangements. We are not working with third-party firms for this engagement.