- You must have hands-on experience establishing and operationalising the Snowflake platform itself—from initial architecture and configuration through security, automation and production readiness.
- Experience limited to developing data pipelines, models or analytics solutions on an existing Snowflake platform will not meet this requirement.

- Initial 3-month contract with the option to extend | Office-based in Sydney CBD
- Build a Snowflake platform from the ground up and take a hands-on technical leadership role.

We’re seeking an experienced Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer / Technical Lead to drive platform implementation, establish secure and scalable environments, and support data-platform modernisation within a large, regulated enterprise.

This prospect suits a technical leader who enjoys shaping platform architecture while remaining actively involved in engineering, automation and production support.

What you’ll do

- Lead hands-on Snowflake platform implementation from the ground up.
- Design, configure and administer Snowflake accounts and environments.
- Manage virtual warehouses, workloads and resource monitoring.
- Implement role-based access control (RBAC), security,



authentication and access controls.
- Establish networking, connectivity, monitoring and auditing capabilities.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines and automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments.
- Troubleshoot production issues and optimise platform performance and resource usage.
- Provide technical direction and engineering guidance while remaining hands-on.

Essential skills and experience

- Proven hands-on Snowflake platform engineering and implementation experience.
- Banking or financial-services experience, including work within large, regulated enterprise environments.
- Strong AWS experience.
- Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Hands-on experience with dbt and Snowpark/Python.
- Experience with Teradata or legacy data-platform modernisation.
- Relevant Snowflake certifications.
- Ability to lead technical delivery while contributing directly to implementation and troubleshooting.

Apply now to help shape a Snowflake platform from its foundations and bring your technical leadership to a challenging enterprise environment.

📌 Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer / Technical Lead (Haymarket)
🏢 Nixil
📍 Haymarket