Senior Snowflake Data Platform Engineer — Remote

JD Power; California (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JD Power is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own the hands-on engineering of its Snowflake data platform. You will translate architecture into a production-grade, automated, observable environment supporting analytics and AI workloads across the enterprise.

In this remote role, you will manage Snowflake accounts, Terraform-based deployments, RBAC, ingestion pipelines, and platform observability while collaborating with Security, Analytics, and Data Science teams to ensure reliability,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional data platform, data engineering, or data infrastructure experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience at production scale.
• Demonstrated expertise in Snowflake RBAC design, warehouse sizing and cost governance, performance tuning, and security features.
• Strong SQL - able to read and optimize a query profile.
• Python for tooling, automation, and pipelines.
• Production IaC experience - Terraform required; Snowflake provider strongly preferred.
• Database CI/CD using Schemachange, Liquibase, dbt, or equivalent change-management tooling.
• Cloud fluency in AWS - networking, IAM, storage, and Snowflake integration points.
• Ingestion experience with Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, Kafka, and/or Fivetran/Airbyte.

Responsibilities

• Own the hands-on engineering of Snowflake data platform and its production-grade environment.
• Implement and maintain Snowflake objects, roles, and policies in Terraform.
• Operate database CI/CD using Schemachange, Liquibase, or equivalent.
• Tune performance, clustering, and query profiling.
• Enforce least-privilege access and masking policies.
• Integrate Snowflake with IdP for SSO/SCIM and manage service accounts.
• Operate Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, Kafka connectors, and orchestration with Airflow/dbt Cloud.
• Define and meet SLOs for platform reliability, freshness, and cost.

Skills

Snowflake

Terraform

SQL

Python

CI/CD

AWS

Data platforms

Tools

Schemachange

Liquibase

dbt Cloud

Airflow

Fivetran/Airbyte

Kafka

Job description

JD Power is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own the hands-on engineering of its Snowflake data platform. You will translate architecture into a production-grade, automated, observable environment supporting analytics and AI workloads across the enterprise.

In this remote role, you will manage Snowflake accounts, Terraform-based deployments, RBAC, ingestion pipelines, and platform observability while collaborating with Security, Analytics, and Data Science teams to ensure reliability,