Senior Data Platform Engineer, Snowflake & AI Enablement

United Rentals; Stamford (CT); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Discount Program

Career Development & Promotional Opps

Additional Vacation Buy Up (US)

Early Wage Access (US Hourly)

Paid Sick Leave

Job summary

United Rentals is seeking a Lead Analyst, Data Platform Engineering to manage Snowflake administration, data pipelines, and AI enablement across the analytics organization. You will design ingestion solutions, curate data layers for BI and AI consumption, and partner with teams to onboard new data sources.

Strong SQL, cloud platform experience, and a passion for governance are essential. The role focuses on enabling AI applications like Claude and ChatGPT, configuring agents, and pushing

Qualifications

• 5+ years of database/platform administration or data engineering.
• Hands-on Snowflake production environment experience.
• Experience with multi-account Snowflake architecture.

Responsibilities

• Administers Snowflake platform for security, performance and reliability.
• Designs and maintains data pipelines ingesting diverse sources.
• Builds curated data layers powering BI/AI ecosystems.
• Tests AI agent enablement and monitors Cortex/CoWork features.
• Documents architecture, runbooks, and data lineage.

Skills

Snowflake administration

SQL programming

Data ingestion

Data engineering

Azure/AWS/GCP cloud platform

BI tools (Tableau, Sigma)

AI/LLM enablement

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS or related field

Master’s Degree preferred

Tools

Fivetran

HVR

dbt

Coalesce

Postman

Job description

United Rentals is seeking a Lead Analyst, Data Platform Engineering to manage Snowflake administration, data pipelines, and AI enablement across the analytics organization. You will design ingestion solutions, curate data layers for BI and AI consumption, and partner with teams to onboard new data sources.

Strong SQL, cloud platform experience, and a passion for governance are essential. The role focuses on enabling AI applications like Claude and ChatGPT, configuring agents, and pushing