Sr. Snowflake Platform Engineer for

Next Pathway - The Automated Cloud Migration Company

Location: Downtown Toronto, ON (Hybrid - Onsite 3 Days/Week, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM)

Duration: 4-Month Contract (Strong Potential for Extension)

Company: Next Pathway

Next Pathway is seeking an experienced Snowflake Platform Engineer to support a major enterprise client that is building a new Snowflake environment from the ground up. This is not a migration project; the successful candidate will be responsible for the ongoing administration, optimization, governance, and operational management of a newly established Snowflake platform.

This role is ideal for a hands-on Snowflake professional who enjoys platform engineering, performance tuning, security management, and ensuring a highly available and well-governed data workplace.

Responsibilities

Snowflake Platform Administration

- Manage and maintain the client’s Snowflake environment on a day-to-day bas
- is.Configure and administer Snowflake accounts, virtual warehouses, databases, schemas, and objects
- Monitor platform health, usage, performance, and resource consumption
- Implement and maintain Snowflake best practices and operational standards.

Performance Tuning & Optimization

- Analyze workloads and query performance to identify optimization opportunities
- Tune virtual warehouses for performance and cost efficiency.
- Monitor storage utilization and compute consumption.
- Recommend and implement performance improvements across the platform.

Security & Access Management

- Manage user accounts, roles, permissions, and access controls.
- Implement and maintain role-based access control (RBAC) frameworks.
- Support governance, compliance, and security requirements.
- Conduct periodic reviews of user access and platform security settings.





Platform Operations & Support

- Troubleshoot platform issues and resolve operational incidents.
- Provide support to data engineers, analysts, and businessusers.
- Develop and maintain operational documentation, standards, and procedures.
- Collaborate with client stakeholders to support ongoing platform growth and adoption.

Required Qualifications

- 4+ years of experience in data platform administration, cloud data warehousing, or data engineering.
- 2+ years of hands-on Snowflake administration experience.
- Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture, security model, and platform operations.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Strong SQL skills and understanding of data warehouse concepts.
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work directly with client stakeholders.

Experience managing:
- Users, roles, and permissions
- Virtual warehouses
- Resource monitoring and governance
- Performance tuning and optimization

Preferred Qualifications

- SnowPro Certification (Core or Advanced).
- Experience implementing Snowflake governance and security frameworks.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools.
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale Snowflake environments.
- Knowledge of data engineering and modern data platform best practices.

What Success Looks Like

- Stable, secure, and well-governed Snowflake environment.
- Optimized platform performance and cost management.
- Effective user access management and security controls.
- Strong operational support and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Documentation and processes that support long-term platform growth.
- Location: Downtown Toronto
- Hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM– 5:00 PM

📌 Sr. Snowflake Platform Engineer (Toronto)
🏢 Next Pathway
📍 Toronto