Senior Platform Engineer - Data & Analytics Platforms

National Grid plc; City of Syracuse (NY); Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work structure

Annual bonus

Generous pension

Job summary

National Grid is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate enterprise data and analytics platform capabilities across Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure. You will develop reusable patterns, governance, and self-service capabilities to enable scalable data products and AI workloads.

You will collaborate with data engineering, security, and operations teams to ensure secure, compliant, and cost-efficient platform services, while supporting a hybrid work model across NY

Qualifications

• Experience in platform engineering, data platform engineering, cloud engineering, or a DevOps-oriented role.
• Hands-on Snowflake experience in an enterprise environment.
• Strong Snowflake concepts: roles, databases, schemas, warehouses, data sharing, and governance.
• Experience with Azure services, identity, networking, monitoring, and production support.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, or similar analytics platforms, including governance and workspace management.
• Proficiency in automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, version control, testing, and repeatable deployment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build enterprise data and analytics platform capabilities across Snowflake, Fabric, and Azure.
• Engineer and administer Snowflake databases, warehouses, and data sharing patterns.
• Develop reusable Snowflake patterns for onboarding, access management, and cross-business data sharing.
• Improve Snowflake performance and cost efficiency through analysis and FinOps practices.
• Build platform automation, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, scripts, and repeatable deployment patterns.
• Support Azure administration and platform integration, including identity and networking.
• Support Fabric and Power BI platform capabilities including governance and workspace management.
• Embed governance, security, observability, and cost management into platform capabilities.
• Assist production services with monitoring, incident response, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Platform engineering

Snowflake

Azure

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

CI/CD

Automation

IaC

Security governance

Collaboration

Tools

Snowflake

Azure

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

About us

At National Grid, we keep people connected and society moving. But it’s so much more than that. National Grid supplies us with the environment to make it happen. As we generate momentum in the energy transition for all, we don’t plan on leaving any of our customers in the dark. So, join us as a Senior Platform Engineer, and find your superpower. We need you!

We want to find an innovative, adaptable, and results-oriented Senior Platform Engineer for our Data & Analytics Platform team. This position can be located in Waltham, MA, Brooklyn, NY, Hicksville, NY, or Syracuse, NY (candidates may also reside in either Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, or Maine). If you yearn to be innovative, contribute new ideas, and play a critical part in our Technology & Innovation organization, we want to hear from you!

About the role

As Senior Platform Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, engineering, automating, and operating enterprise data and analytics platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and reliable data products, analytics solutions, and AI-enabled workloads.

You'll provide broad platform engineering capability across National Grid’s strategic data and analytics ecosystem, with emphasis on Snowflake engineering, Azure administration, platform automation, Microsoft Fabric enablement, governance, reliability, and operational support. You'll develop reusable patterns and self-service capabilities that improve consistency, reduce manual effort, and make platform services easier for teams to adopt and operate.

What you'll do

• Design, build, configure, and support enterprise data and analytics platform capabilities across Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Power BI, and associated services.
• Engineer and administer Snowflake capabilities including databases, schemas, roles, grants, warehouses, resource monitors, tasks, streams, secure data sharing, marketplace patterns, workload management, and operational controls.
• Develop reusable Snowflake patterns for onboarding, access management, data publication and consumption, workload isolation, environment configuration, and governed cross-business-unit data sharing.
• Improve Snowflake performance and cost efficiency through query analysis, warehouse design, monitoring, resource management, usage analysis, and FinOps practices.
• Build and maintain platform automation, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, scripts, templates, and repeatable deployment patterns that reduce manual or ticket-driven administration.
• Support Azure administration and platform integration, including identity, networking, private connectivity, monitoring, security alignment, and configuration of cloud services used by data platforms.
• Support Microsoft Fabric and Power BI platform capabilities, including capacity and workspace administration, connectivity, governance controls, monitoring, operational readiness, and adoption patterns.
• Embed governance, security, auditability, data quality, observability, and cost-management controls directly into platform capabilities and engineering patterns.
• Support production services through monitoring, alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, runbooks, service ownership, resilience planning, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with data engineering, architecture, security, cloud, governance, operations, product, and business-aligned teams to translate requirements into secure and supportable platform solutions.
• Contribute to platform roadmaps and standards by identifying opportunities to modernize services, improve developer and consumer experience, enable governed self-service, and support advanced analytics and AI-enabled use cases.

About you

• Experience in platform engineering, data platform engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a DevOps-oriented role.
• Hands-on experience engineering, administering, or operating Snowflake in an enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of Snowflake concepts including roles and grants, databases and schemas, warehouses, resource monitors, tasks and streams, data sharing, marketplace patterns, cloning, security controls, and workload management.
• Experience with Snowflake security and governance patterns, including role-based access control, secure sharing, masking or access policies, auditability, and controlled access to sensitive data.
• Experience optimizing Snowflake performance, reliability, and cost through query analysis, warehouse sizing, workload monitoring, and operational tuning.
• Experience administering or engineering Microsoft Azure services, including identity integration, networking, private connectivity, monitoring, and production support considerations.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, or similar analytics platforms, including platform administration, governance, capacity or workspace management, and operational support.
• Hands-on experience with automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, version control, testing, documentation, and repeatable deployment practices.
• Experience integrating data platforms with ingestion, transformation, orchestration, catalog, BI, analytics, IT service management, and monitoring tools.
• Experience supporting production platforms with observability, incident response, root cause analysis, runbooks, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one programming or scripting language used in platform engineering, such as Python, PowerShell, Java, Scala, or similar.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, architecture, security, governance, operations, vendor, and business-facing teams and communicate technical decisions clearly.

More Information

Rewarding work and a collaborative, team-oriented culture are just the beginning. Review our digital benefit guide at ngbenefitslivebrighter.com for full details and descriptions.

Our organization follows a hybrid work structure in our service territory (NY & MA) where employees can work remotely or from the office, as needed. Working from the office is encouraged when working on tasks that require a high degree of collaboration. We work with our employees to foster a flexible work schedule.

Downstate NY $122,000 - $143,000 a year

Massachusetts $114,000 - $134,000 a year

Upstate NY $102,000 - $119,000 a year

National Grid will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. You must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

National Grid utilizes an assessment that evaluates the job qualifications/characteristics using AI or statistically based scoring. For more information, please view NYC Local Law 144.

This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.

National Grid is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of protected class. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. National Grid maintains affirmative action programs for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Our employment practices are designed to ensure that all individuals are treated fairly and with respect throughout the hiring process and during employment. National Grid complies with all applicable federal, state, and local anti-discrimination laws. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and harassment, and we encourage a culture of respect for all.

National Grid operates in both the UK and US, with a broad portfolio of energy businesses dedicated to providing safe, reliable, and sustainable power.

From electricity and gas transmission to advancing clean energy and modernising grids, our work covers every aspect of the energy system.

Our energy flows through absolutely everything we do

Life here at National Grid is more than just our purpose or our values, it’s everything we put into everything we do. It’s our commitment to diversity and inclusion; how we help our employees learn and grow; and how we partner with and support the communities where we live and work. It’s all this, and so much more.

We leverage our collective strengths to do meaningful BIG work so that we can be at the heart of a fair and affordable energy future.

Your salary is reviewed each year against the market for your role, skills, knowledge and experience.

Incentive

Annual performance plan or bonus (depending on your role) rewards your contribution to our success each year.

Retirement

Generous pension plan with company contributions up to 12%.

Private medical insurance for self and family.