[Remote] Senior Data Platform Engineer, Snowflake

Note The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. JD Power is a company that aims to power every auto-related decision through proprietary data and advanced analytics. They are seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own the engineering of their Snowflake data platform, ensuring it supports analytics, product, and AI/ML workloads across the enterprise. Responsibilities Owns Snowflake account, warehouse, and object architecture Infrastructure-as-Code repository and CI/CD for all Snowflake changes RBAC implementation, security controls, and identity integration Ingestion and integration patterns (Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, managed connectors) Platform observability, cost monitoring, and performance tuning Documentation, runbooks, and onboarding patterns for platform consumers Design and evolve Snowflake account, warehouse, and object architecture Implement and maintain all Snowflake objects, roles, and policies in Terraform Operate database CI/CD using Schemachange, Liquibase, or equivalent Tune performance clustering, search optimization, materialized views, query profiling Build and maintain the functional/access role hierarchy enforcing least privilege Implement masking policies, row access policies, object tagging, and network policies Integrate Snowflake with IdP for SSO/SCIM; manage service accounts and key rotation Partner with InfoSec, Privacy, and Compliance on audit readiness and control attestation Operate Snowpipe, Snowpipe Streaming, Streams/Tasks, and Kafka Connector pipelines Manage Fivetran/Airbyte (or equivalent) connector deployments and reliability Implement Iceberg / external tables where lakehouse interoperability is required Integrate with orchestration (Airflow / dbt Cloud) and observability tooling Define and meet SLOs for platform reliability, freshness, and cost Build dashboards and alerting; lead incident response for platform issues Document architecture decisions, patterns, and runbooks Enable Analytics Engineering, Product Engineering, and Data Science consumers Skills 5+ years of professional data platform, data engineering, or data infrastructure experience 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience at production scale (not pilot/POC) Demonstrated expertise in Snowflake RBAC design, warehouse sizing and cost governance, performance tuning, and security features Strong SQL — able to read and optimize a query profile Python for tooling, automation, and pipelines Production IaC experience — Terraform required; Snowflake provider strongly preferred Database CI/CD using Schemachange, Liquibase, dbt, or equivalent change-management tooling Cloud fluency in AWS — networking, IAM, storage, and Snowflake integration points Ingestion experience with Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, Kafka, and/or Fivetran/Airbyte Communication — able to author decision records and runbooks; able to influence without authority SnowPro Advanced certification (Architect, Data Engineer, or Administrator) Hands-on dbt and modern Analytics Engineering experience Experience with Snowflake Horizon Catalog, Polaris, Collibra, or Alation Streaming and CDC Kafka, Debezium, Snowpipe Streaming, Dynamic Tables Iceberg / lakehouse architecture Data observability tooling (Monte Carlo, Bigeye, Datadog) Automotive, financial services, insurance, or regulated consumer-data experience AI/ML workloads on Snowflake (Cortex, Snowpark, feature stores) Company Overview JD Power is a proven leader in business-critical data and intelligence to drive auto-related decisions with confidence and clarity. It was founded in 1968, and is headquartered in Troy, MI, US, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http//JDPower.com. Company H1B Sponsorship JD Power has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 5 in 2025, 2 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 5 in 2021, 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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