The Lead Platform Engineer, Data is a hands-on engineering and operations role responsible for the reliability, governance, automation, and continuous improvement of a large-scale, Tier 1 enterprise data platform. The role requires deep experience managing Snowflake, dbt, ETL/data integration platforms, and production data services, with strong expertise in platform administration, operational excellence, incident management, and automation. The ideal candidate combines practical platform engineering skills with a systems-thinking mindset to improve reliability, scale, and efficiency while reducing manual effort through automation and modern AI-driven capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Snowflake Platform Administration: Own Snowflake administration end-to-end across development, staging, and production environments, leveraging strong Snowflake and enterprise database administration experience to ensure platform reliability, security, performance, and cost efficiency. Manage multiple Snowflake accounts, including account consolidation, migration, and modernization initiatives, while driving warehouse optimization, query tuning, RBAC and Row-Level Security implementation, access automation, and platform monitoring. Serve as the primary escalation point for platform issues and lead adoption of advanced Snowflake capabilities such as Streams, Tasks, Dynamic Tables, and Snowpipe. Hands-on Snowflake administration experience, prior database administration expertise, and SnowPro Administrator certification are required.
- dbt Administration & Governance: Administer the dbt project and deployment infrastructure - owning project configuration, model architecture standards, environment and job management, test coverage enforcement, documentation requirements, and model promotion workflows across environments. Monitor dbt run health and lineage, configure observability tooling (Elementary or equivalent), and partner with analytics engineers to review and certify models for production use.
Data Stack Automation & Operations: Automate the operational layer of the data technology stack - including ETL/ELT tool administration (Fivetran, etc), RBAC and access provisioning via Terraform or scripting, alerting and notification pipelines for data quality and platform health, and CI/CD release workflows for dbt and platform configuration. Reduce manual operational toil by building reusable automation frameworks that make routine platform tasks fast, auditable, and self-service where appropriate.
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This is a remote eligible position. Candidates who sit within a 45 mile radius of Boston, MA; Denver, CO; Detroit, MI will be required to work hybrid (2 days per week in office). All candidates will be required to work EST hours.
Minimum Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on data platform experience, with direct ownership of a Snowflake environment at production scale.
Preferred Requirements
- Deep Snowflake DBA skills: virtual warehouse sizing, auto-suspend and scaling policy configuration, multi-cluster warehouse management, and credit cost governance.
- Snowflake RBAC design: functional role hierarchy design, privilege grants, service account management, and systematic access provisioning - not one-off manual grants.
- Row-Level Security implementation using Snowflake row access policies for multi-tenant or restricted datasets.
- Snowflake feature ownership: Streams, Tasks, Dynamic Tables, Snowpipe, External Stages, Data Sharing, and Secure Views in production workloads.
- Query profiling and optimization: reading query profiles, identifying bottleneck operators, applying clustering keys, and resolving warehouse contention.
- Deep experience administering dbt project end-to-end - model architecture (staging / intermediate / marts), incremental and snapshot patterns, and environment separation.
- dbt Cloud or dbt Core deployment administration: job scheduling, environment variable management, run monitoring, failure alerting, and model promotion across dev/staging/prod.
- Test coverage governance: enforcing schema tests, data tests, and source freshness checks as mandatory gates before production promotion.
- dbt observability: configuring and maintaining Elementary, or equivalent tooling - including artifact-based monitoring, model health dashboards, and freshness tracking against Snowflake account usage.
- Experience partnering with analytics engineers to review model design, optimize underperforming models, and maintain lineage and metadata for downstream governance.
- Platform-level administration of Fivetran or Matillion: connector governance, sync scheduling, schema drift policy, user and environment management, and operational escalation handling.
- Alerting and notification automation: configuring and owning alerts for pipeline failures, data quality breaches, SLA violations, and Snowflake cost spikes - routed to Slack, PagerDuty, email, or ServiceNow with actionable diagnostic context.
- CI/CD for the data platform: GitHub Actions or GitLab CI pipelines for dbt, Terraform, and ETL tool configuration with environment promotion gates, automated testing, and rollback on failure.
- Strong Python and SQL: used for automation scripting, operational tooling, and platform health monitoring, not just pipeline development.
- Hands-on experience enabling Snowflake Cortex AI features, Cortex Analyst semantic model configuration, Cortex Search index setup, and production use of LLM functions.
- Experience developing analytics agents on behalf of business stakeholders, connecting Snowflake data to Slack or other collaboration tools via bot APIs, webhooks, or slash commands so users can query data and receive insights in their workflow.
- Practical experience configuring or fine-tuning LLMs (Cortex, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, or Azure OpenAI) including prompt engineering, system instruction design, and parameter tuning to improve accuracy on governed data.
- Ability to design and maintain a semantic data layer, verified views, curated schemas, and structured metadata that grounds LLM-generated outputs in accurate, governed Snowflake data.
- Snowflake SnowPro Core, SnowPro Advanced, or Cortex AI certification.
- Experience with multi-agent frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, or AutoGen) applied to enterprise data workflows.
- A one-product software company creating real value for the largest enterprises and millions of end customers globally, striving for a world where software works perfectly.
- Working with the latest technologies and at the forefront of innovation in tech on scale; but also, in other areas like marketing, design, or research.
- A team that thinks outside the box, welcomes unconventional ideas, and pushes boundaries.
- An environment that fosters innovation, enables creative collaboration, and allows you to grow.
- A globally unique and tailor-made career development program recognizing your potential, promoting your strengths, and supporting you in achieving your career goals.
- A truly international mindset that is being shaped by the diverse personalities, expertise, and backgrounds of our global team.
- A relocation team that is eager to help you start your journey to a new country, always there to support and by your side.
- Attractive compensation packages and stock purchase options with numerous benefits and advantages.
DOE, salary $140K - $163K, plus Health, Dental, Life, STD, LTD, 401K, PTO. Total compensation may vary depending on candidate experience/education and location.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
We offer competitive compensation, company-sponsored premium benefits, medical, dental, vacation/holidays, company matching 401(k) Plan, etc. Dynatrace is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, gender identity, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical abilities, age, sexual orientation, creed, disability status, veteran status, pregnancy, genetic status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If your disability makes it difficult for you to use this site, please contact [email protected] . Dynatrace participates in E-Verify, participant information in English and Spanish. Right to work information in English and Spanish. EEO is the Law . To be considered for this position, please upload your resume/CV.
