Position: Lead Snowflake Engineer Location: Remote Employment: Contract Job Description: We are seeking a Lead Snowflake Engineer with strong experience in Snowflake, administration, and cloud data platforms. This is a hands-on role responsible for designing, managing, securing, and optimizing the Snowflake environment while working closely with data engineering, analytics, and cloud teams. Key Responsibilities: Architecture & Development Design and build scalable Snowflake data warehouse and data lake solutions. Develop data models, ETL/ELT pipelines, and analytics-ready datasets. Implement Snowflake Data Sharing and advanced features such as Cortex AI. Create secure and governed data solutions using masking, encryption, and access controls. Partner with business and technical teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions. Evaluate and adopt new Snowflake capabilities to improve performance, security, and cost efficiency. Platform Administration Manage Snowflake environments across development, testing, and production. Administer databases, schemas, warehouses, users, roles, and permissions. Monitor platform performance, availability, and costs. Troubleshoot performance, data pipeline, and access issues. Implement disaster recovery, replication, backup, and failover strategies. Maintain documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures. Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy, and security standards. Provide technical guidance to Snowflake administrators and support teams. Required Skills: 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering, or Data Platforms. 4+ years of hands-on Snowflake and administration experience. Strong expertise in: Snowflake Architecture & Administration Data Warehousing & Dimensional Modeling Advanced SQL ETL/ELT Pipeline Development Performance Tuning & Cost Optimization Snowflake Security & Governance Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms. Experience with GitHub and CI/CD pipelines. Strong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills. Preferred Skills: Python Terraform, Bash, or other automation tools Snowflake Horizon Cortex AI Snowflake Data Sharing SnowPro Core Certification