Senior Snowflake Data Platform Engineer - Remote

JD Power; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JD Power is hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own the hands-on engineering of our Snowflake data platform. Work remotely across the USA and Canada, translating architecture into production-grade, automated, and observable Snowflake environments for analytics, product, and AI/ML workloads.

You will own Snowflake accounts, implement RBAC and security controls, manage ingestion pipelines, observability, cost monitoring, and runbooks, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional data platform, data engineering, or data infrastructure experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience at production scale.
• Expertise in Snowflake RBAC design, cost governance, performance tuning, and security features.
• Strong SQL—able to read and optimize a query profile.
• Python for tooling, automation, and pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve Snowflake account, warehouse, and object architecture.
• Implement and maintain Snowflake objects, roles, and policies in Terraform.
• Operate database CI/CD using Schemachange, Liquibase, or equivalent.
• Tune performance with clustering, caching, and materialized views.

Skills

Snowflake

SQL

Python

CI/CD

Terraform

AWS

Tools

Terraform

Airflow

dbt Cloud

Schemachange

Liquibase

Job description

JD Power is hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own the hands-on engineering of our Snowflake data platform. Work remotely across the USA and Canada, translating architecture into production-grade, automated, and observable Snowflake environments for analytics, product, and AI/ML workloads.

You will own Snowflake accounts, implement RBAC and security controls, manage ingestion pipelines, observability, cost monitoring, and runbooks, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable