Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer

Veriday Inc.•Cincinnati, OH

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a hands-on Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer to lead the administration, security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization of a banking client's enterprise Snowflake platform. The engineer will work with Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, and business teams to keep the platform secure, scalable, and efficient for critical enterprise workloads. The role calls for deep, practical Snowflake administration experience, strong SQL and performance-tuning skills, and the ability to independently troubleshoot complex production issues and drive platform improvements. This is a six-month W2 contract assignment with potential extension, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The working arrangement is hybrid, with three days per week on-site.

Requirements

Extensive hands-on experience administering and supporting Snowflake in a production enterprise environment.
Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, including virtual warehouses, micro-partitions, caching, and query execution.
Advanced SQL skills and demonstrated experience diagnosing and resolving query performance issues.
Practical experience implementing Snowflake RBAC, role hierarchies, grants, access policies, and secure access patterns.
Experience with warehouse sizing, workload management, cost monitoring, and compute optimization.
Experience troubleshooting production incidents and improving platform reliability.
Solid understanding of database administration, data governance, and enterprise security practices.
Ability to work independently, communicate effectively, and produce clear technical documentation.
Experience integrating Snowflake with AWS S3, IAM, Glue, and enterprise data pipelines.
Python or shell scripting experience for automation; Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
Experience with Snowflake security features, including masking policies, row access policies, network policies, and authentication integrations.
Experience with multi-cluster warehouses, replication, failover, and business continuity.

Nice To Haves

SnowPro Core or Advanced certification.
Experience in financial services or another regulated enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

Own day-to-day Snowflake administration, including user and role management, warehouse configuration, resource monitoring, and operational support.
Analyze and optimize query performance, warehouse utilization, concurrency, and compute costs using Snowflake monitoring and account usage capabilities.
Implement and maintain RBAC, least-privilege access, service accounts, authentication integrations, and data protection controls.
Establish platform standards for warehouse sizing, auto-suspend/resume, resource monitors, workload isolation, and cost management.
Monitor platform health, investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures.
Manage database objects and platform hygiene, including schemas, tables, views, retention settings, and cleanup of obsolete resources.
Support data integration and connectivity with AWS services, including S3 and IAM, and related ingestion and processing tools.
Automate administrative and operational tasks using SQL, Python, scripting, and APIs.
Develop operational dashboards and documentation for monitoring, incident response, access reviews, and cost reporting.
Collaborate with engineering teams on platform architecture, upgrades, new capabilities, and enterprise data initiatives.