Senior Data Platform Engineer (Snowflake) Locations: Manchester / London / Staines (Hybrid) Type: Permanent, Full-Time (37.5 hours) Salary: £70,% Bonus Excellent Benefits
Overview
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 materials
Required 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 standards
What’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
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