Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer — Remote

JD Power; City of Troy (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

JD Power is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own hands-on engineering of the Snowflake data platform in a remote US/Canada setting. You will translate architecture into a production-grade, automated, observable Snowflake environment supporting analytics, product, and AI/ML workloads.

You will manage Snowflake accounts, Terraform-based IaC, RBAC and security, Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, and data ingestion pipelines, while driving platform observability, cost governance, and runbooks for

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional data platform experience.
• 3+ years Snowflake production experience.
• Snowflake RBAC design and cost governance expertise.
• Strong SQL skills and query optimization.
• Python for tooling, automation, and pipelines.
• IaC experience with Terraform; Snowflake provider preferred.
• Cloud AWS experience including networking, IAM, storage, and Snowflake integrations.
• Ingestion experience with Snowpipe/Streams/Tasks and Kafka; familiarity with Fivetran/Airbyte.
• Effective communication and ability to document decisions and runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Own Snowflake account, warehouse, and object architecture.
• Maintain Terraform-based Snowflake objects and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement and enforce security controls and IdP integration.
• Manage Snowpipe/Streams/Tasks and data ingestion pipelines.
• Ensure platform observability, cost governance, and performance tuning.
• Develop runbooks and enable platform consumers across teams.

Skills

Snowflake

SQL

Python

Terraform

CI/CD

RBAC design

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

Schemachange

Liquibase

dbt

Fivetran/Airbyte

Airflow/dbt Cloud

Job description

JD Power is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own hands-on engineering of the Snowflake data platform in a remote US/Canada setting. You will translate architecture into a production-grade, automated, observable Snowflake environment supporting analytics, product, and AI/ML workloads.

You will manage Snowflake accounts, Terraform-based IaC, RBAC and security, Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, and data ingestion pipelines, while driving platform observability, cost governance, and runbooks for