Senior Data Platform Engineer - Snowflake

Senior Data Platform Engineer (Snowflake) Locations: Manchester / London (Hybrid) Type: Permanent, Full-Time (37.5 hours) Salary: £90,000 - 120000 + 10% 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 bonus

• Private healthcare

• Enhanced pension and life insurance

• Flexible working arrangements

• Wellbeing support and lifestyle benefits

• Access to discounts and additional perks