Jobs → Engineering → Lead Snowflake Engineer

About the Role We are seeking a Lead Snowflake Engineer to join our team. This hands-on role is responsible for designing, managing, securing, and optimizing the Snowflake environment while working closely with data engineering, analytics, and cloud teams. Key Responsibilities • Design and build scalable Snowflake data warehouse and data lake solutions • Develop data models, ETL/ELT pipelines, and analytics-ready datasets • Implement Snowflake Data Sharing and advanced features such as Cortex AI • Create secure and governed data solutions using masking, encryption, and access controls • Partner with business and technical teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions • Evaluate and adopt new Snowflake capabilities to improve performance, security, and cost efficiency • Manage Snowflake environments across development, testing, and production • Administer databases, schemas, warehouses, users, roles, and permissions • Monitor platform performance, availability, and costs • Troubleshoot performance, data pipeline, and access issues • Implement disaster recovery, replication, backup, and failover strategies • Maintain documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures • Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy, and security standards • Provide technical guidance to Snowflake administrators and support teams Requirements • 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Data Platforms • 4+ years of hands-on Snowflake and administration experience • Strong expertise in Snowflake Architecture & Administration • Data Warehousing & Dimensional Modeling • Advanced SQL • ETL/ELT Pipeline Development • Performance Tuning & Cost Optimization • Snowflake Security & Governance • Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms • Experience with GitHub and CI/CD pipelines • Strong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills