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Base Salary
$160k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the Dow Jones Snowflake platform, including accounts, warehouses, roles, databases, and its operating model.
- Design and enforce RBAC, row- and column-level policies, masking, tagging, classification, network policies, private connectivity, SSO, SCIM, and secrets management.
- Build and maintain Terraform and CI/CD workflows for Snowflake schema and object changes, including automated testing and change management.
- Optimize Snowflake cost and performance through resource monitoring, warehouse sizing, query analysis, credit budgeting, and FinOps reporting.
- Design and operate platform reliability capabilities including replication, failover, disaster recovery, incident response, and observability.
- Develop governed patterns for Snowflake Cortex, AI tooling, and LLM-assisted workflows.
- Lead architecture and design reviews, resolve complex platform issues, reduce technical debt, and lead incident response.
- Mentor engineers across levels and contribute to engineering practices, career frameworks, communities of practice, documentation, and technical talks.
- Partner with security, compliance, finance, product, and engineering leaders on enterprise data-platform strategy.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles, including enterprise-scale experience.
- Deep hands-on experience administering and operating production Snowflake accounts at scale, including RBAC, security, cost, and performance management.
- Strong Terraform experience, including the Snowflake provider or equivalent, and experience with CI/CD for data infrastructure.
- Experience designing and operating data platforms serving multiple teams, business units, or downstream systems.
- Fluency in data security, observability, monitoring, incident response, and on-call operations.
- Strong Python skills for platform tooling, automation, or service development.
- Experience in regulated or audited environments such as SOC 2, SOX, or GDPR.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to influence across teams without formal authority through strong written and verbal communication.
- Preferred experience with dbt, Airflow, Snowflake certifications, FinOps, data governance and lineage tools, AWS, platform operations, near-real-time or event-driven processing, and engineer development.
Benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare, insurance, retirement, paid time off, education, and family care benefits.
- Commuter transit program, subscription discounts, and employee referral program.
- Base pay range of $160,000-$200,000 per year.
- The role is based in New York, United States; no remote or hybrid arrangement is stated.
About Dow Jones
Dow Jones provides news, market data, and risk/compliance information for consumers and enterprises through brands and platforms such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Factiva, OPIS, and Dow Jones Risk & Compliance. Its business model spans consumer subscriptions, enterprise licensing, advertising, and data services used by financial institutions, corporations, and investors. Founded in 1882 and headquartered in New York, it is a subsidiary of News Corp.