Senior Data Platform Engineer - Snowflake & Azure

National Grid; Hicksville (NY); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Benefits package

Job summary

National Grid seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a data and analytics platform spanning Snowflake, Azure, and Power BI. You will develop reusable patterns, govern data sharing, and optimize performance and costs while enabling scalable AI-enabled workloads.

You will collaborate across architecture, security, and operations to embed governance, security, and observability into platform capabilities, driving adoption and reliability in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in platform engineering and data platform engineering.
• Hands-on Snowflake experience in an enterprise environment.
• Knowledge of Snowflake concepts: roles, grants, databases, schemas, warehouses, and data sharing.
• Experience with Snowflake security and governance patterns (RBAC, access controls).
• Experience administering Microsoft Azure services (identity, networking, monitoring).
• Experience with automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and support enterprise data and analytics platform capabilities across Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Power BI, and related services.
• Engineer and administer Snowflake databases, warehouses, grants, and data sharing with governance and cost controls.
• Develop reusable Snowflake patterns for onboarding, access management, data publication, and cross-unit sharing.
• Improve Snowflake performance and cost efficiency through query analysis and workload management.
• Build and maintain platform automation, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and repeatable deployment patterns.
• Support Azure administration and platform integration including identity and monitoring.

Skills

Snowflake engineering

Azure administration

Power BI platform

CI/CD automation

Infrastructure as Code

Python / scripting

Tools

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Azure

Power BI

Git

Job description

National Grid seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a data and analytics platform spanning Snowflake, Azure, and Power BI. You will develop reusable patterns, govern data sharing, and optimize performance and costs while enabling scalable AI-enabled workloads.

You will collaborate across architecture, security, and operations to embed governance, security, and observability into platform capabilities, driving adoption and reliability in a hybrid work environment.