Snowflake (Cortex) Platform Engineer - Insurance

Join a leading global investment management firm undergoing a major data transformation. You'll take ownership of a business-critical Snowflake platform (Cortex), ensuring it remains secure, scalable, high-performing, and well-governed across the organisation.

Join a leading global investment management firm undergoing a major data transformation. You'll take ownership of a business-critical Snowflake platform, ensuring it remains secure, scalable, high-performing, and well-governed across the organisation.Key Responsibilities

• Own Snowflake platform administration, performance, and cost optimisation.
• Manage RBAC, access controls, SSO integrations, and security policies.
• Implement data masking, row-level security, audit logging, and network controls.
• Deliver platform upgrades, new feature adoption, and Terraform-based deployments.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Security, and Cloud teams to drive best practices and continuous improvement.
• Act as the Snowflake SME for platform operations, governance, and architecture.

Essential Skills

• Strong enterprise Snowflake administration experience.
• Cortex AI
• Expertise in Snowflake security, RBAC, governance, and access management.
• Experience with warehouse management, performance tuning, and cost optimisation.
• Strong SQL skills and knowledge of Account Usage and Information Schema.
• Terraform (or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tooling).
• Cloud platform, networking, and identity management experience (e.g. Okta, Azure AD).
• Available to start within 1 month (maximum notice period).

Highly Desirable

• SnowPro certification.
• Snowpark, Dynamic Tables, Data Sharing, or Clean Rooms.
• Python automation.
• dbt, Fivetran, Matillion, Alation, or Collibra.
• Experience within regulated environments.

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