Senior Data Platform Engineer, Snowflake

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🕒 September 11

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $120k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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JDPA LIMITED

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🚘 Automotive

🛡️ Insurance

💼 Consulting

Automotive • Insurance • Consulting

JDPA LIMITED is a provider of data, analytics, and software solutions serving the automotive ecosystem and adjacent financial and insurance sectors. It offers vehicle valuations, market and retail intelligence, quality and customer-experience benchmarks, digital marketing and advisory services to OEMs, dealers, insurers and lenders. JDPA LIMITED combines proprietary customer and VIN data with advanced analytics and SaaS products to help clients improve product design, retail performance, risk management, and finance operations.

📋 Description

• Own the hands-on engineering of JD Power's Snowflake data platform • Translate platform architecture and governance direction into a production-grade, automated, and observable Snowflake environment • Own Snowflake account, warehouse, and object architecture • Manage Infrastructure-as-Code repository and CI/CD for Snowflake changes • Implement RBAC, security controls, and identity integration • Operate ingestion and integration patterns using Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, managed connectors, Kafka, and Fivetran/Airbyte • Monitor platform observability, costs, and performance; tune clustering, search optimization, materialized views, and queries • Implement Snowflake objects, roles, and policies in Terraform • Operate database CI/CD using Schemachange, Liquibase, dbt, or equivalent tooling • Integrate Snowflake with IdP for SSO/SCIM and manage service accounts and key rotation • Partner with InfoSec, Privacy, and Compliance on audit readiness and control attestation • Define and meet SLOs for platform reliability, freshness, and cost • Build dashboards and alerting and lead incident response for platform issues • Document architecture decisions, patterns, and runbooks • Enable Analytics Engineering, Product Engineering, and Data Science consumers

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional data platform, data engineering, or data infrastructure experience • 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience at production scale • Expertise in Snowflake RBAC design, warehouse sizing and cost governance, performance tuning, and security features • Strong SQL and query profile optimization skills • Python for tooling, automation, and pipelines • Production Infrastructure-as-Code experience; Terraform required • Database CI/CD using Schemachange, Liquibase, dbt, or equivalent • Cloud fluency in AWS, including networking, IAM, storage, and Snowflake integration • Ingestion experience with Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, Kafka, and/or Fivetran/Airbyte • Ability to author decision records and runbooks and influence without authority • SnowPro Advanced certification preferred • Hands-on dbt and modern Analytics Engineering experience preferred • Experience with Snowflake Horizon Catalog, Polaris, Collibra, or Alation preferred • Streaming and CDC experience preferred • Iceberg/lakehouse architecture experience preferred • Data observability tooling experience preferred • Automotive, financial services, insurance, or regulated consumer-data experience preferred • AI/ML workloads on Snowflake preferred • Legally authorized to work in the country where employment is offered • JD Power does not provide employment sponsorship for this position

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements • Opportunities for learning and development • Virtual-first company