Duration: 6 months to start (with potential for extension)
Job Description
- We are seeking an experienced Snowflake Platform Engineer (contractor) to support our Platform team.
- This role will be responsible for improving the security, governance, operational maturity, and cost efficiency of our enterprise Snowflake environment while providing day-to-day operational support.
- The ideal candidate will bring deep Snowflake expertise and a hands-on approach to platform administration, governance, security, automation, and operational excellence.
- This individual will work closely with Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Platform Services, Security, and governance teams to optimize our Snowflake ecosystem and support ongoing modernization initiatives.
- This position requires a balance of strategic thinking and tactical execution, with the flexibility to address operational issues, troubleshoot production challenges, and respond to evolving business priorities.
Key Responsibilities
Snowflake Security & Access Modernization
- Assess, simplify and standardize role-based access control (RBAC) models.
- Review security practices and recommend improvements that align with enterprise governance requirements.
- Evaluate, recommend, and implement Snowflake capabilities that strengthen data access governance, improve security monitoring, and reduce the risk of unauthorized access.
Authentication & Service Account Transformation
- Establish operational standards and governance processes for service account lifecycle management.
Platform Governance & Operational Excellence
- Design and implement governance processes for newly released Snowflake capabilities and services.
- Develop operational controls, standards, and review processes to support platform scalability and compliance.
- Establish best practices for platform administration, change management, monitoring, and support.
Snowflake Release & Feature Management
- Monitor Snowflake product releases and roadmap updates.
- Review monthly release notes and assess impacts to existing environments, integrations, and operational processes.
- Evaluate emerging capabilities and recommend adoption strategies based on business value, risk, and operational readiness.
- Create implementation recommendations and rollout plans for approved features.
Platform Assessments & Knowledge Transfer
- Conduct comprehensive reviews of Snowflake architecture, security, performance, governance, and operational processes.
- Identify improvement opportunities and develop actionable remediation plans.
- Provide mentoring, documentation, and knowledge transfer sessions for Platform Services team.
- Develop operational readiness assessments and maturity improvement roadmaps.
Documentation & Runbook Development
- Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, architecture diagrams, and support runbooks.
- Improve platform documentation to support incident response, onboarding, disaster recovery, and ongoing operations.
- Establish documentation standards and processes for continuous maintenance.
Technical Debt Reduction
- Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to drive remediation efforts, advance modernization initiatives, and improve platform maintainability through technical debt reduction.
Cost Optimization & Storage Management
- Conduct ongoing reviews of Snowflake consumption, storage utilization, and overall platform costs.
- Identify and implement opportunities to optimize compute, storage, and workload efficiency.
- Develop recommendations and governance controls for cost management and capacity planning.
- Establish monitoring and reporting processes for platform consumption trends.
Data Lifecycle & Retention Management
- Develop and implement enterprise data retention and archival strategies within Snowflake.
- Reduce operational risk and storage costs associated with outdated or inactive data.
- Implement lifecycle management processes and supporting governance controls.
Operational Support
- Provide hands-on support for day-to-day Snowflake platform operations.
- Troubleshoot incidents, resolve production issues, and participate in platform support activities.
- Support platform upgrades, configuration changes, and operational maintenance activities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure platform reliability and availability.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in data platform engineering or database administration.
- 4+ years of hands-on Snowflake platform administration and architecture experience.
- 4+ years of hands on experience with CI/CD processes.
- Experience developing operational processes, support models, and technical documentation.
- Strong understanding of enterprise data management practices.
- Experience supporting production environments in large-scale organizations.
- Ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting healthcare, regulated, or highly governed environments.
- Experience with AWS/Azure ecosystem services and enterprise data platforms.
- Familiarity with modern data architectures involving Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Power BI, Posit Connect, GitHub, Terraform etc.,
- Experience with data lifecycle management, archival strategies, and retention governance.
- Experience implementing data access monitoring and security controls.
- Snowflake certifications preferred.
Talent Groups is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to protected characteristics. The listed compensation range represents a good-faith estimate and may vary based on experience, skills, education, certifications, market conditions, client budget, and location, in accordance with applicable pay transparency laws.
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