Senior Data Platform Engineer, Snowflake

J.D. Power; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JD Power is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own and evolve our Snowflake data platform for analytics, product, and AI/ML workloads. You will translate architectural directions into a production-grade, automated Snowflake environment with strong security, RBAC, and CI/CD practices.

Key duties include managing Snowflake objects via Terraform, implementing data ingestion pipelines, and ensuring observability, cost control, and security compliance across AWS.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data platform or data engineering experience.
• 3+ years of Snowflake production experience at scale.
• Strong SQL, able to optimize query profiles.
• Python for tooling and pipelines.
• Terraform IaC for Snowflake; Terraform Snowflake provider preferred.
• AWS cloud fluency: networking, IAM, storage, Snowflake integration points.

Responsibilities

• Own Snowflake account, warehouse, and object architecture.
• Operate CI/CD for Snowflake changes (Schemachange, Liquibase, dbt).
• Implement RBAC, security controls, and IdP integration for SSO/SCIM.
• Ingest and integrate with Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, Kafka connectors.
• Build observability, cost monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Define SLOs and lead incident response for the platform.

Skills

Snowflake

SQL

Python

Terraform

CI/CD

AWS

Tools

Schemachange

Liquibase

dbt

Airflow

Kafka

Fivetran/Airbyte

Job description

**Job Description:****Title:** Senior Data Platform Engineer**Location:** Remote – USA, Canada**Reports to:** SVP, Engineering**Vacancy**: New vacancy**The Role:**Own the hands-on engineering of JD Power's Snowflake data platform. Responsible for translating the Platform Lead's architecture and governance direction into a production-grade, automated, and observable Snowflake environment that supports analytics, product, and AI/ML workloads across the enterprise.**The Scope & Ownership You Will Have in This Role:**Owns* Snowflake account, warehouse, and object architecture.* Infrastructure-as-Code repository and CI/CD for all Snowflake changes.* RBAC implementation, security controls, and identity integration.* Ingestion and integration patterns (Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, managed connectors).* Platform observability, cost monitoring, and performance tuning.* Documentation, runbooks, and onboarding patterns for platform consumers.Does not own* Governance policy and strategy (owned by the Platform Lead).* Business data modeling and semantic layer (owned by Analytics Engineering).* Source system data quality at point of capture (owned by upstream teams).**What You’ll Be Doing in This Role:**Platform engineering* Design and evolve Snowflake account, warehouse, and object architecture.* Implement and maintain all Snowflake objects, roles, and policies in Terraform.* Operate database CI/CD using Schemachange, Liquibase, or equivalent.* Tune performance: clustering, search optimization, materialized views, query profiling.Security and governance enforcement* Build and maintain the functional/access role hierarchy enforcing least privilege.* Implement masking policies, row access policies, object tagging, and network policies.* Integrate Snowflake with IdP for SSO/SCIM; manage service accounts and key rotation.* Partner with InfoSec, Privacy, and Compliance on audit readiness and control attestation.Ingestion and integration* Operate Snowpipe, Snowpipe Streaming, Streams/Tasks, and Kafka Connector pipelines.* Manage Fivetran/Airbyte (or equivalent) connector deployments and reliability.* Implement Iceberg / external tables where lakehouse interoperability is required.* Integrate with orchestration (Airflow / dbt Cloud) and observability tooling.Operational excellence* Define and meet SLOs for platform reliability, freshness, and cost.* Build dashboards and alerting; lead incident response for platform issues.* Document architecture decisions, patterns, and runbooks.* Enable Analytics Engineering, Product Engineering, and Data Science consumers.**Qualifications of this Role:*** 5+ years of professional data platform, data engineering, or data infrastructure experience.* 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience at production scale (not pilot/POC).* Demonstrated expertise in Snowflake RBAC design, warehouse sizing and cost governance, performance tuning, and security features.* Strong SQL — able to read and optimize a query profile.* Python for tooling, automation, and pipelines.* Production IaC experience — Terraform required; Snowflake provider strongly preferred.* Database CI/CD using Schemachange, Liquibase, dbt, or equivalent change-management tooling.* Cloud fluency in AWS — networking, IAM, storage, and Snowflake integration points.* Ingestion experience with Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, Kafka, and/or Fivetran/Airbyte.* Communication — able to author decision records and runbooks; able to influence without authority.* PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS + SnowPro Advanced certification (Architect, Data Engineer, or Administrator). + Hands-on dbt and modern Analytics Engineering experience. + Experience with Snowflake Horizon Catalog, Polaris, Collibra, or Alation. + Streaming and CDC: Kafka, Debezium, Snowpipe Streaming, Dynamic Tables. + Iceberg / lakehouse architecture. + Data observability tooling (Monte Carlo, Bigeye, Datadog). + Automotive, financial services, insurance, or regulated consumer-data experience. + AI/ML workloads on Snowflake (Cortex, Snowpark, feature stores).This position has a starting salary range of **$120K -$150K USD/$110K -$120K CAD** per year. 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