Snowflake Platform Lead - Senior Data Engineer

Jobtailor; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a senior data engineer to own and evolve the data platform end-to-end as usage scales. You will manage Snowflake configurations, governance, and reliability while expanding source pipelines through CDC, Fivetran/Airbyte connectors, and API ingestion.

You will drive data architecture decisions, ensure governance and observability, and mentor engineers to deliver high-performance, cost-efficient pipelines in a fast-growing environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data engineering or related field with end-to-end production data infra ownership.
• Deep Snowflake expertise including warehouse config, RBAC, cost optimization, and compute performance tuning.
• Expert SQL, dbt, and Python skills for high-performance queries and production-grade pipelines.
• Proven experience building and maintaining source pipelines including CDC via logical replication, Fivetran or Airbyte connectors, custom API ingestion, orchestration, and S3-based ingestion patterns.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Snowflake platform end-to-end as usage scales.
• Own source pipeline reliability and expansion, evaluating connections for reliability, freshness SLAs, edge case handling, and schema drift resilience.
• Ensure data accuracy, quality, and compliance through governance, observability, and monitoring best practices.
• Own pipeline incident response with fast, root-cause analysis to prevent recurrence and clear communication.
• Improve data architecture and storage solutions to enhance performance, reduce costs, and optimize batch workflows during scaling.
• Operate as the technical authority on data infrastructure decisions and guide architectural choices.

Skills

Snowflake expertise

SQL

dbt

Python

Data pipelines

AWS infra

Mentoring engineers

ETL design

Cost optimization

PostgreSQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Fivetran

Airbyte

API ingestion

Orchestration (Airflow)

S3 ingestion

PostgreSQL

Job description

Jobtailor seeks a senior data engineer to own and evolve the data platform end-to-end as usage scales. You will manage Snowflake configurations, governance, and reliability while expanding source pipelines through CDC, Fivetran/Airbyte connectors, and API ingestion.

You will drive data architecture decisions, ensure governance and observability, and mentor engineers to deliver high-performance, cost-efficient pipelines in a fast-growing environment.