Senior Operations & Data Engineer (Snowflake Specialist)
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Job Location:
Denver, CO - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Solicitation: Senior Operations & Data Engineer (Snowflake Specialist); Cloud Engineer
Security Clearance: OIT FTI (IRS Pub 1075) and CJIS (Fingerprint-based)
1. Position Objective
The Office of Information Technology (OIT) is seeking a highly specialized Senior Operations and Data Engineer to serve as the primary administrator and technical lead for our Snowflake ecosystem. This role is a hybrid of platform operations and high-level data engineering ensuring that sensitive state and federal data (FTI/CJIS) is managed within a secure high-uptime and cost-effective environment.
2. Preferred Qualifications
To be considered for this role candidates should provide proof of the following:
Active Snowflake Certification
Background Clearance Readiness: Absolute eligibility to pass OIT FTI (Federal Tax Information) and CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services) background checks.
Security Clearance: OIT FTI (IRS Pub 1075) and CJIS (Fingerprint-based)
1. Position Objective
The Office of Information Technology (OIT) is seeking a highly specialized Senior Operations and Data Engineer to serve as the primary administrator and technical lead for our Snowflake ecosystem. This role is a hybrid of platform operations and high-level data engineering ensuring that sensitive state and federal data (FTI/CJIS) is managed within a secure high-uptime and cost-effective environment.
2. Preferred Qualifications
To be considered for this role candidates should provide proof of the following:
Active Snowflake Certification
Background Clearance Readiness: Absolute eligibility to pass OIT FTI (Federal Tax Information) and CJIS (Criminal Justice Information Services) background checks.
3. Key Responsibilities
Platform Operations & Administration
Snowflake Mastery: Act as the lead administrator for Snowflake environments; manage platform uptime vendor escalations and patch/versioning communications.
Environment Provisioning: Configure Snowflake including complex RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) and security permissions.
Governance & CI/CD: Implement and manage DataOps and CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments for the broader implementation team.
Financial Stewardship: Configure cost-management features such as Snowflake resource monitors budgets and consumption tracking; consult on chargeback models.
Data Engineering & Transformation
Pipeline Architecture: Develop robust ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest data from transactional systems (Line of Business) into the analytical Snowflake environment.
Analytical Modeling: Translate Data Architect visions into technical reality by building complex transformations and target schemas.
Quality Management: Design and deploy automated data cleansing and quality-check pipelines.
Performance Engineering: Optimize data flows for specific latency and frequency requirements while maintaining credit efficiency.
4. Primary Deliverables
Architectural Contributions: Design reviews Architectural Plans and Scope Documents.
Deployment Assets: New account/environment deployments security schemas and permission assignments.
Engineering Assets: Comprehensive ETL Pipeline Design Documents Mapping Documents and production-ready Pipelines.
Product Backlog & Support Ticket Management; performance reports
Weekly Status Reports
