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 (New South Wales)
🏢 Nixil
📍 New South Wales