Senior Data Platform Lead - Snowflake, AWS, ETL

Fipsar Inc; Hillsborough Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Fipsar Inc. seeks a Senior Data Platform Technical Lead in New Jersey to own enterprise data platforms and ensure production stability.

Immediate start for a 3‑month contract with potential extension, onsite/hybrid work, and hands‑on leadership across Snowflake, Talend, AWS, Streamlit and GitHub. The role emphasizes knowledge transfer, platform ownership, incident resolution, and coordinating technical activities with US‑based stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 8+ years hands-on experience in data engineering, platform administration, cloud data platforms, or technical leadership.
• Strong practical experience with Talend administration, ETL troubleshooting, and production deployments.
• Strong experience with Snowflake administration, SQL, performance optimization, and RBAC.
• Hands-on experience with AWS S3, Glue, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, release management, and environment promotions.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of enterprise data platforms across Snowflake, Talend, AWS, and related technologies.
• Complete structured knowledge transfer from the existing technical architect.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues involving data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, authentication, and integrations.
• Review SQL, data models, technical designs, and platform configurations.
• Support new project onboarding and DEV, QA, and PROD environment provisioning.
• Manage Snowflake databases, warehouses, users, roles, and RBAC security.
• Troubleshoot Snowflake tasks, streams, data pipelines, and performance issues.
• Optimize SQL queries, warehouse utilization, and resource consumption.
• Support authentication, security policies, service accounts, and integrations.
• Assist with backup, replication, recovery, and platform lifecycle management.
• Administer Talend environments, remote engines, job servers, schedules, and execution plans.
• Troubleshoot ETL failures, API integrations, pagination issues, connectivity, and performance bottlenecks.
• Manage Talend contexts, configurations, reusable frameworks, and deployment processes.
• Support production ETL monitoring, incident resolution, and root‑cause analysis.
• Support AWS services including S3, Glue, IAM, and CloudWatch.
• Manage S3 configurations, permissions, data transfers, and lifecycle policies.
• Troubleshoot Glue jobs, cloud connectivity, API integrations, and service failures.
• Support cloud environment provisioning, security configurations, and operational monitoring.
• Coordinate and execute production deployments across Snowflake, Talend, AWS, and Streamlit components.
• Manage GitHub repositories, CI/CD pipelines, pull requests, approvals, and release processes.
• Validate deployment prerequisites, change approvals, rollback procedures, and production readiness.
• Troubleshoot deployment failures and support controlled recovery.
• Support SSO, RBAC, credential management, key rotation, and security vulnerability remediation.
• Follow established change‑control, security, and GxP‑related procedures.
• Investigate critical L2/L3 production incidents and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Collaborate with development, monitoring, infrastructure, and operations teams.
• Improve operational runbooks, monitoring, alerting, and platform reliability.
• Complete knowledge transfer from our team and assume ownership of critical platform activities.
• Document architecture, configurations, dependencies, known issues, and operational procedures.
• Provide hands‑on technical guidance to offshore engineers and production support teams.
• Support a structured knowledge transfer to the offshore team to ensure long‑term operational continuity.
• Collaborate with US‑based client stakeholders and technical leadership.

Skills

Snowflake administration

Talend administration

AWS administration

SQL troubleshooting

GitHub CI/CD

RBAC & security

Data modeling

Problem solving

Tools

Snowflake

Talend

AWS

Streamlit

GitHub

Job description

Fipsar Inc. seeks a Senior Data Platform Technical Lead in New Jersey to own enterprise data platforms and ensure production stability.

Immediate start for a 3‑month contract with potential extension, onsite/hybrid work, and hands‑on leadership across Snowflake, Talend, AWS, Streamlit and GitHub. The role emphasizes knowledge transfer, platform ownership, incident resolution, and coordinating technical activities with US‑based stakeholders.