Snowflake Platform Engineer
Talent Groups ·www.talentgroups.com
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Duration: 6 months to start (with potential for extension)
Job Description
Snowflake Security & Access Modernization
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.
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.
- Establish operational standards and governance processes for service account lifecycle management.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to drive remediation efforts, advance modernization initiatives, and improve platform maintainability through technical debt reduction.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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