Senior Data Platform Engineer - Snowflake
5 days ago
Manchester
Senior Data Platform Engineer (Snowflake)Locations: Manchester / London / Staines (Hybrid)Type: Permanent, Full-Time (37.5 hours)Salary: £70,400 + 10% Bonus + Excellent BenefitsOverview We’re hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to play a key role in designing, building, and operating a secure, scalable enterprise data platform with a strong focus on Snowflake. This is a senior-level position where you’ll take ownership of platform engineering capabilities- driving automation, governance, and performance optimisation, while enabling data teams to deliver advanced analytics at scale. You’ll operate with a high level of autonomy, contributing to platform standards, improving reliability, and ensuring cost-effective, compliant data operations.Key Responsibilities • Design, build, and manage Snowflake platform capabilities within an enterprise data environment, • Automate infrastructure and resource provisioning using Terraform (IaC), • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps), • Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks, • Lead cost optimisation initiatives across Snowflake workloads, • Define and enforce security best practices (RBAC, data masking, identity integration), • Establish governance and compliance frameworks (audit logging, access reviews), • Design and implement disaster recovery and business continuity strategies, • Create reusable modules, templates, and platform standards, • Produce high-quality documentation, runbooks, and onboarding materialsRequired Skills & Experience, • Strong experience in platform or cloud engineering within enterprise environments, • Deep expertise in Snowflake (warehousing, RBAC, data sharing, performance tuning), • Hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, • Proven experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps), • Strong scripting skills (SQL, Python, or Bash), • Solid understanding of Snowflake security features (masking, encryption, identity federation), • Experience with monitoring, query profiling, and usage tracking, • Demonstrated ability to optimise performance and manage costs in large-scale environments, • Strong communication skills with the ability to work across engineering, data, and compliance teams, • Proactive approach to documentation and platform standardsWhat’s on Offer, • 25 days holiday (with option to buy/sell), • Annual performance-based bonus, • Private healthcare, • Enhanced pension and life insurance, • Flexible working arrangements, • Wellbeing support and lifestyle benefits, • Access to discounts and additional perks