Principal Data Platform Engineer

Accountabilities:: As Principal Data Platform Engineer, you will own the technical administration and operational health of the Snowflake environment, ensuring it meets enterprise requirements for performance, security, integration, and long-term supportability. Administer the Snowflake platform: Manage accounts, virtual warehouses, databases, environments, configurations, upgrades, and other core platform components. Manage supporting tools: Maintain Snowflake connectors, drivers, data-loading services such as Snowpipe, and associated partner tools. Build and maintain integrations: Design, implement, and support connections between Snowflake, source systems, AWS services, APIs, ETL/ELT tools, and downstream data consumers. Strengthen platform security: Implement and maintain network policies, encryption, data masking, audit logging, and other security controls in collaboration with the Security team. Establish observability standards: Partner with technical leads to develop monitoring, alerting, usage tracking, and performance visibility across the data platform. Monitor platform health: Track reliability and performance, investigate technical issues, troubleshoot incidents, and coordinate effective resolution. Automate platform operations: Streamline administrative tasks and implement infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices using Terraform or similar tools where appropriate. Optimize platform consumption: Monitor Snowflake usage and identify opportunities to improve warehouse sizing, resource utilization, and credit consumption. Document operational practices: Create and maintain platform standards, technical documentation, runbooks, and support procedures to ensure consistent and sustainable operations. Manage vendor engagement: Serve as the technical point of contact for Snowflake, coordinating support cases, evaluating new features, and monitoring platform developments. Collaborate across engineering teams: Influence technical decisions, align platform practices with enterprise standards, and support the adoption of product-oriented delivery methods. Requirements: The ideal candidate combines extensive data engineering or database administration experience with deep hands-on Snowflake expertise, strong cloud engineering skills, and a practical understanding of enterprise security and platform operations. Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. Professional experience: At least 10 years of experience in data engineering, database administration, or data platform roles. Snowflake administration: At least 3 years of hands-on experience administering Snowflake in a production enterprise environment. Data integration expertise: Strong experience building and supporting data integrations using Snowpipe, connectors, APIs, ETL/ELT tooling, and related technologies. Cloud engineering: Strong experience with AWS and the services commonly integrated with Snowflake. SQL and scripting: Advanced SQL skills and practical scripting experience with Python or a similar language. Security and compliance: Experience implementing security controls for sensitive or regulated data, including personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI), and HIPAA-related requirements. Technical leadership: Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with, advise, and influence technical leaders across engineering and security teams. Infrastructure as code: Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools for managing Snowflake environments is preferred. Certifications: SnowPro Core and SnowPro Advanced Administrator or Architect certifications are preferred. Monitoring and observability: Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and observability tools for data platforms is an advantage. Data orchestration: Experience with dbt, Airflow, or similar data orchestration and transformation tools is preferred. Industry experience: Background in insurance, claims, healthcare, or financial services technology environments is beneficial. Organizational transformation: Experience supporting a transition from project-based delivery to product- or service-oriented operating models is an advantage. Benefits: Annual base salary: $133,000–$170,000, depending on geographic market, skills, experience, education, and other relevant factors. Remote work: Fully remote position available anywhere in the United States. Health insurance: Medical, dental, and vision coverage. Health and dependent care accounts: Access to Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA). Life and accident coverage: Life insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) insurance. Retirement savings: 401(k) plan to support long-term financial well-being. Education support: Tuition reimbursement to support continued learning and professional development. Wellness resources: Access to resources and programs designed to support physical, financial, and personal well-being. Total compensation package: Benefits and compensation designed to support employees' health, financial security, and overall quality of life. Eligibility may vary according to employment status.