Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer

Our direct client in the Northeast is looking for a Snowflake Platform Engineer to join there team as a contractor (3 month initial term) or contract to hire.

3 month contract, contract to hire is possible may convert to IC platform engineer or a manager.

W2 or corp to corp may work for this role

Remote EST hours, possible earlier meeting to overlap with offshore team.

Resource must be based in the United States.

Rates: 85-95 per hr.

This would be a Snowflake Platform Engineer, supporting the maturing of our Data and devops tool stack (Snowflake, dbt, Terraform, Github). (Not looking for a data engineer).

Primary goal is to get someone in to pick up the platform maturity work the prior data platform manager dropped (RBAC rollout in Snowflake, terraform buildout, warehouse sizing, cost monitoring, sandbox environment standup) and provide guidance and support to the platform and modeling team.

Hard requirements:

• 8+ years of Database Administration and Platform Engineering.
• Snowflake expertise (administration, cost management, RBAC/security, warehouse sizing, setting up sandboxes with guardrails), at least 4 years of Snowflake Admin.
• Must have deep experience with RBAC preferably implementing it.
• (dbt cloud) Experience with configuring and leveraging dbt (Cloud)
• Terraform for automation.
• Proven experience running a governed data platform (setting guardrails, establishing and instilling standards, access controls and auditability)
• Capable of providing clear guidance to a team of platform engineers and data modelers
• Ability to work with business stakeholders to design solutions that balance business needs with governance and scalability
• Preferred:
• Experience with configuring and managing dbt, Terraform, GitHub for a data team
• Data engineering experience (building and maintaining pipelines, operating at scale)
• Emphasis on building automations into platforms and workflows
• Experienced in data modeling and data architecture, establishing and instilling architecture and standards (at least an understanding of modeling)
• Prior experience managing a technical team (won't necessarily be managing this team)

*Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.*

*W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.*

*Please be advised- If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please confirm that they have an Eliassen.com email address and never provide personal or financial information to anyone who is not clearly associated with Eliassen Group. If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact InfoSec@eliassen.com.*