Description
This is an individual-contributor leadership role focused on Snowflake infrastructure at the Dow Jones enterprise scale. You'll own the platform end to end: account architecture and administration, security and access control, and the DevOps machinery that makes Snowflake safe and easy to use across dozens of teams and every business unit.
Responsibilities:
- Own the Snowflake footprint across Dow Jones: accounts, warehouses, roles, databases, and the operating model behind them.
- Design and evolve RBAC, column and row-level policies, masking, tagging, and data classification for every business unit.
- Build and maintain the DevOps pipeline for Snowflake: Terraform, CI/CD for schema and object changes, automated testing, and change management.
- Set and enforce standards for security, network policies, private connectivity, SSO, SCIM, and secrets management.
- Optimize cost and performance: resource monitors, warehouse right-sizing, query analysis, credit budgeting, and FinOps reporting.
- Design for reliability at DJ scale: replication, failover, disaster recovery, incident response, and observability across the platform.
- Explore and implement emerging AI tooling to accelerate our modern data engineering practices.
- Lead architecture and design reviews for major Snowflake initiatives.
- Anticipate scalability, reliability, security, and cost problems before they land.
- Hunt technical debt in the platform to reduce complexity so downstream teams get more done with less.
- Debug the problems no one else can. Lead during incidents and get to root cause fast.
- Mentor engineers across levels, including senior and staff peers, through design guidance, code review, pairing, and documentation.
Requirements:
- 7+ years in data engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles, with time spent at large or enterprise-scale companies.
- Thought-leader of AI and opinionated about how to make it work effectively at scale on a data platform.
- Deep, hands-on Snowflake experience running a production account at scale: administration, RBAC, security posture, cost, and performance.
- Strong Terraform experience (Snowflake provider or equivalent) and CI/CD for data infrastructure.
- Track record designing and operating data platforms that serve many teams, business units, or downstream systems.
- Security fluency: RBAC design, data masking, access policies, private connectivity, SSO and SCIM, audit posture.
- Fluency with observability, monitoring, incident response, and on-call for data infrastructure.
- Strong Python for platform tooling, automation, or service work.
- Experience working in regulated or audited environments (SOC 2, SOX, GDPR, or equivalent).
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to influence across teams and functions without formal authority, backed by strong writing and speaking.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive healthcare plans.
- Paid time off.
- Retirement plans.
- Comprehensive insurance plans.
- Education benefits.
- Family care benefits.
- Commuter transit program.
- Subscription discounts.
- Employee referral program.