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Job Description: Title: Data Platform Engineer
Location: Remote – USA, Canada
Reports to: SVP, Engineering
Vacancy: New vacancy
The Role:
Execute and extend the engineering patterns established by the Snowflake Platform Lead and Senior Data Platform Engineer. Responsible for the day-to-day build, deployment, and operation of Snowflake objects, pipelines, and tooling — and for growing into a senior-level platform engineer over time.
Owns
Implementation of Snowflake objects and roles in Terraform per established patterns.
Day-to-day operation of CI/CD pipelines for database changes.
Configuration and maintenance of assigned ingestion pipelines (Snowpipe, Streams/Tasks, managed connectors).
First-line response to platform alerts on assigned components.
Documentation and runbook updates for work this role delivers.
Contributes to (under guidance of the Senior)
Architecture and pattern design decisions.
RBAC model evolution and security policy implementation.
Performance tuning and cost optimization initiatives.
Platform build and operation
Implement Snowflake objects, roles, and policies in Terraform per established patterns.
Author database migrations using Schemachange/Liquibase and ship them through CI/CD.
Own and operate the CI/CD pipeline that builds, tests, and deploys dbt models in production.
Apply masking and row-access policies to new data domains as they.
Tune individual queries and warehouses using established profiling techniques.
Ingestion and integration
Configure, deploy, and maintain ingestion pipelines for assigned source systems.
Manage Fivetran/Airbyte (or equivalent) connector deployments for assigned sources.
Build Snowpipe and Streams/Tasks workflows for assigned ingestion patterns.
Partner with Analytics Engineering to land data in the shapes downstream models expect.
Reliability and support
Participate in the on-call rotation for the platform ramped (target: month 3–4).
Respond to alerts, triage incidents, and lead resolution for assigned components.
Maintain dashboards and alerting for assigned pipelines and warehouses.
Write postmortems and contribute corrective actions back into the platform.
Growth and craft
Pair regularly with the Senior to learn architecture patterns and decision-making.
Drive your own ramp on Snowflake, Terraform, and the JD Power data stack.
Contribute to internal documentation, runbooks, and materials.
Pursue SnowPro Core certification within the first 6–9 months.
ward senior level (architecture contributions, cross-team influence).
2–4 years of professional software, data, or platform engineering experience.
Strong SQL — comfortable with joins, window functions, CTEs, and reading explain plans.
Python for scripting, automation, and data work.
Cloud data warehouse experience — Snowflake preferred; recent Redshift, BigQuery, or Databricks SQL experience considered.
Version control discipline — comfortable in Git workflows with branching, code review, and CI/CD.
Some Infrastructure-as-Code exposure — Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or equivalent.
Working knowledge of dbt — comfortable reading models, writing tests, and running dbt build in CI.
Cloud fluency in AWS or Azure — comfortable with IAM, storage, and basic networking.
Production experience — has shipped code to production systems and been on-call or supported live systems.
Communication — can write clear PR descriptions, ask good questions, and document their work.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Hands-on Snowflake in production (any role: engineer, analytics engineer, analyst).
Production dbt experience — has authored models, written tests, and shipped to a deployed environment.
SnowPro Core certification (not required at hire; expected within 6–9 months).
Database CI/CD tooling (Schemachange, Liquibase, dbt deploys).
Exposure to ingestion tools (Fivetran, Airbyte, Snowpipe, Kafka).
Data observability tooling (Monte Carlo, Datadog, Grafana).
Automotive, financial services, insurance, or other regulated consumer-data experience.
Computer Science degree or equivalent applied experience (e.g., bootcamp + production track record).
This position has a starting salary range of
per year. This is the range we reasonably and in good faith expect to pay for the role at the time of posting. An employee’s pay within the range is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, education, qualifications, experience, performance, business or organizational needs, and geographic location.
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JD Power is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.
Should you require accommodations during the recruitment and selection process, please reach out to mailto:[email protected] [email protected].
JD Power does not disclose your personal data to unauthorized third parties. However, as a global corporation consisting of multiple affiliated companies in various countries, JD Power has international sites and JD Power uses resources located throughout the world. JD Power may from time to time also use third parties to act on JD Power’s behalf. You agree to the fact that to the extent necessary your personal data may be transferred and/or disclosed to any company within JD Power group of companies as well as to third parties acting on JD Power’s behalf, including also transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided JD Power with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area and in the United States of America. If you are a California or United Kingdom resident, additional disclosures about the information we collect and how we use that information can be found by clicking here.
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As a virtual-first company, we offer flexible work arrangements, opportunities for learning and development, and a culture centered on the Values that guide how we work every day.
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JD Power is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.
JD Power is committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for individuals with disabilities or other protected needs under applicable local laws. Please contact mailto:[email protected] [email protected] for accommodation request.
JD Power does not disclose your personal data to unauthorized third parties. However, as a global corporation consisting of multiple affiliated companies in various countries, JD Power has international sites and JD Power uses resources located throughout the world. JD Power may from time to time also use third parties to act on JD Power’s behalf. You agree to the fact that to the extent necessary your personal data may be transferred and/or disclosed to any company within JD Power group of companies as well as to third parties acting on JD Power’s behalf, including also transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided JD Power with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area and in the United States of America. If you are a California or United Kingdom resident, additional disclosures about the information we collect and how we use that information can be found by clicking https://www.jdpower.com/privacy/employee here.
Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where employment is offered. JD Power does not provide employment sponsorship for this position.
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What is the salary for this role?
The salary for this role is $110 per annum.
What experience is required?
4+ years of experience is required.
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Yes, currently active and accepting applications.
Data Platform Engineer, Snowflake
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