Senior Data Platform Engineer - Snowflake & AI Enablement

United Rentals; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Parental Leave

United Compassion Fund

Employee Discount Program

Career Development & Promotional Oppt.

Additional Vacation

Early Wage Access through Payactiv

Job summary

United Rentals is seeking a Lead Analyst, Data Platform Engineering to strengthen Snowflake administration and data pipeline engineering. You will secure and optimize the platform, ingest diverse data sources, and build curated data layers for enterprise BI and AI applications.

The role spans implementing AI-enabled workflows, testing new features, and enabling Cortex agents while maintaining robust data governance. Strong SQL, ETL/ELT, and collaboration skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technical field; Master’s preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in database/platform administration, data engineering, or BI.
• 1+ years leading complex projects; hands-on Snowflake administration in production.

Responsibilities

• Administer Snowflake platforms across discovery accounts; manage users, roles, warehouses, RBAC/RLS/CLS, and security policies.
• Monitor health, performance, cost, and reliability; tune workloads to meet SLAs.
• Design, build and maintain data pipelines from multiple sources using CDC, API, and batch loads.
• Develop curated, agent-ready data layers to support BI/AI ecosystems; document lineage and dependencies.
• Enable AI/copilot deployments (Claude, ChatGPT/Copilot, Snowflake Cortex); test, configure and monitor agents.
• Create semantic views and data models for dashboards (Tableau/Sigma) and downstream agents.

Skills

Snowflake Administration

Data Pipeline Design

SQL

AI/LLM Enablement

Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/IS or related field

Master’s Degree preferred

Tools

Fivetran/HVR

Matillion

dbt

Postman

Tableau

Sigma

Job description

United Rentals is seeking a Lead Analyst, Data Platform Engineering to strengthen Snowflake administration and data pipeline engineering. You will secure and optimize the platform, ingest diverse data sources, and build curated data layers for enterprise BI and AI applications.

The role spans implementing AI-enabled workflows, testing new features, and enabling Cortex agents while maintaining robust data governance. Strong SQL, ETL/ELT, and collaboration skills are essential.