Manager, Data Platform Engineering
Stratacareers · Chicago, IL
About this role
**How you’ll make an impact** As the **Manager of Data Platform Engineering**, you’ll lead the platforms that power our data and analytics capabilities, with **Snowflake** at the center. This is a **hands-on leadership** role where you’ll lead a small team while personally designing, automating, operating, and troubleshooting critical platform components. You’ll own **Snowflake architecture and operations** across **security, governance, administration, reliability, performance, and cost**, and provide operational oversight for **PostgreSQL**. --- ### Own and Evolve the Data Platform - Own **Snowflake architecture, roadmap, administration, and engineering standards** - Configure and operate **Snowflake compute, storage, networking, integrations, and platform services** - Create reusable patterns, automation, and guardrails to help teams deliver safely and efficiently - Oversee **AWS RDS PostgreSQL** configuration, security, backup, and recovery for product applications ### Strengthen Security, Governance, and Access - Design and automate **least-privilege** security and access controls (RBAC, service identities, credentials, privileged access, and access lifecycle) - Improve access-management tools, including **Satori** and internal solutions - Partner with Security and Infrastructure to align **Snowflake and PostgreSQL** with enterprise requirements - Improve auditability of platform access, administrative activity, and policy compliance ### Drive Performance and Cost Efficiency - Own **Snowflake performance and cost management** (warehouse sizing, workloads, concurrency, storage, configuration) - Diagnose complex query and workload performance issues with engineering teams - Implement monitoring, alerting, resource controls, cost attribution, and platform health metrics ### Build Automation and Engineering Practices - Use **Infrastructure as Code** (including **Terraform**) for repeatable, reviewable, auditable platform configuration - Build automation with **SQL, Python, and APIs** to reduce manual administration and improve reliability/self-service - Maintain **Git-based CI/CD** practices for platform configuration and deployment - Establish practical standards for **dbt** and related data-platform technologies - Maintain operational tooling, documentation, and runbooks ### Lead While Staying Hands-On - Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of database and platform professionals - Set technical direction and priorities while staying directly involved in architecture, implementation, and troubleshooting - Serve as the senior escalation point for complex production issues and participate in a shared on-call model - Lead cross-functional initiatives through direct ownership and influence - Contribute to hiring and team development ### Drive Improvement and Modernization - Identify opportunities to improve scalability, efficiency, and cost - Support adoption of **Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, and modern data tools** - Partner to enable **analytics, ML, and AI** workloads - Promote automation and standardization --- ## What we’re looking for - Deep hands-on **Snowflake** expertise across administration, security, performance, cost optimization, automation, and production architecture - Strong **SQL** skills; experience troubleshooting and optimizing complex data workloads - Experience implementing **least-privilege access**, service identities, privileged access, credential management, access lifecycle controls, and auditing -
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