Sr Snowflake Platform Engineer

Job Title: Sr Snowflake Platform Engineer
Location: Must be local to the New England Area- Connecticut Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Type: Contract (6 months)
Rate: $70/hr on W2

Notes:
Interview Type: Video
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Job Summary

Were looking for a Senior Snowflake Solution Engineer to design deliver and operate enterprise solutions on the Snowflake Data Cloud. Our platform follows a multi-account strategy and our primary workloads are BI and ML/AI. This role is hands-on and delivery-oriented-owning secure architecture cross-account and cross-platform data product enablement performance/cost optimization and production operations.

Youll partner with data engineering security and analytics/data science teams to implement scalable patterns improve reliability and drive adoption of modern Snowflake capabilities including Cortex Copilot and Intelligence.

Required Qualifications

5 years of hands-on Snowflake delivery in enterprise environments (solution engineering platform engineering or architecture).

Deep Snowflake expertise in:

RBAC design and least-privilege governance

Account/database/schema and warehouse/workload administration

Cross-account data sharing and governed access patterns

Performance and cost optimization (query profiling/tuning concurrency workload isolation resource monitors)

Resiliency/recovery: Time Travel zero-copy cloning Fail-safe

Strong SQL and practical automation/scripting capability for operational tasks.

Experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS Azure or GCP) and enterprise integrations (SSO/IdP BI tools ingestion/orchestration ML ecosystem).

Working knowledge of governance compliance and security best practices.

Experience with Cortex Copilot and Intelligence (use-case implementation and operational considerations).

Nice to Have

dbt (standards macros testing documentation CI/CD)

Streamlit

Infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform) and automated provisioning

ELT tools (Fivetran Matillion Informatica etc.)

Snowflake certifications (SnowPro Core; Advanced/Architect preferred)

Experience contributing to a Snowflake Center of Excellence