Snowflake Platform Engineer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Full Time
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- 10–11 yrs
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- 1 week ago
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Job description
About the Role
We are looking for an expert Snowflake Engineer to join an Enterprise Data Platform team. This vital role involves designing, building, safeguarding, and optimising contemporary cloud-based data platforms leveraging Snowflake and Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate will possess extensive practical experience with Snowflake, Azure data services, data architecture, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), data classification, and precise access controls.
You will collaborate with Solution Architects, Data Engineers, Security teams, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performance data solutions that facilitate advanced analytics and enterprise-wide data usage.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement seamless integrations between Snowflake and Azure cloud data platforms.
- Develop and maintain scalable pipelines and data ingestion frameworks.
- Work proficiently with Azure native data services including Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, and Azure Blob Storage.
- Support secure, efficient SQL-based data access across enterprise analytical platforms.
- Contribute to detailed technical designs of the enterprise data platform.
- Translate architectural solutions into robust, scalable technical implementations.
- Ensure data platform designs comply with enterprise data strategies, security standards, governance mandates, and expected performance levels.
- Participate in design reviews and propose improvements to platform capabilities.
- Design and implement Snowflake Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and nuanced access models.
- Develop data access policies aligned with data classification and sensitivity levels.
- Implement secure data-sharing and consumption practices.
- Work closely with Security, Risk, and Compliance teams to uphold governance, auditability, and compliance requirements.
- Facilitate secure data access for diverse user groups, applications, and analytical workloads.
Required Qualifications and Experience
- Over 10 years of demonstrated experience in Data Engineering, cloud data platforms, or equivalent technical roles.
- Proven hands-on expertise with Snowflake encompassing database and schema design, SQL development and tuning, virtual warehouse management, data ingestion, security and access control, as well as performance optimisation.
- Significant experience with Microsoft Azure, focusing on Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Blob Storage / ADLS, and Azure-based data integration platforms.
- In-depth knowledge of RBAC, data classification, governance policies, and cloud security best practices.
- Advanced SQL programming skills.
- Experience with scripting languages, particularly Python, is a strong advantage.
Additional Information
To apply or learn more, please contact Yash Kumar Jain at 03 8680 4235 or ykumarjain@paxus.com.au quoting the relevant job reference. Paxus is committed to diversity and encourages applications from Indigenous Australians, people from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and individuals with disabilities. Accommodations in the recruitment process are available upon request, including alternative formats for application forms.