Senior Data Platform Engineer - Snowflake

A Senior Data Platform Engineer with expertise in Snowflake is required in Manchester to design, build, and manage a secure, scalable enterprise platform. This full time, permanent position offers a salary of £90,000 to £120,000 plus a 10% bonus and benefits. You will take ownership of platform engineering, driving automation, governance, and performance optimisation, and enable teams to deliver advanced analytics at scale. The hybrid working pattern supports collaboration between Manchester and London offices.

Locations: Manchester / London (Hybrid)

Type: Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hours)

Salary: £90,000 - 120,000 + 10% Bonus + Excellent Benefits

• 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.

• 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.

• 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