Sr Analyst, Data Platform Engineering

About the role

The Senior Analyst, Data Platform Engineering serves as the team's primary Snowflake administrator and data pipeline engineer, responsible for the day-to-day security, performance, and reliability of United Rentals' Snowflake platform. This role designs and builds data pipelines that ingest data from a wide variety of sources, and develops the curated, agent-ready data layers that power the enterprise's BI and AI ecosystem.

Responsibilities

The Senior Analyst plays a lead role in enabling AI applications such as Claude and ChatGPT across the organization, including configuring and monitoring AI agents, building semantic views, and managing data shares between Snowflake accounts. This person is also responsible for activating and testing Snowflake Private Preview capabilities, helping the team stay ahead of platform innovation and bringing new capabilities into production.

• Snowflake Platform Administration: manages users, roles, warehouses, RBAC / RLS / CLS, security policies, and other account-level configurations.
• Monitors platform health, performance and cost, tuning workloads as needed to meet business SLAs.
• Audits and remediates security issues.
• Manages availability between Snowflake accounts and partner platforms, whether cloud or on-prem.
• Activates, tests, and evaluates Snowflake Private Preview capabilities.
• Data Pipeline & Ingestion Engineering: designs, builds, and maintains data pipelines that ingest data from a variety of internal and external sources.
• Builds and maintains transformation workflows across the Foundation, Processed, and Curated layers of the enterprise data warehouse.
• Monitors pipeline and job performance, troubleshoots failures, and resolves data quality or timeliness issues.
• Partners with source system owners and corporate teams to onboard new data sources and define ingestion standards.
• AI & Agent Enablement: supports enablement, testing, and rollout of AI applications and copilots across the analytics organization.
• Helps set up, configure, and monitor agents, including MCP server-based agent-to-agent integrations.
• Curate Data & Semantic Views: builds and maintains curated data sets and business data models that feed dashboards, semantic views, and downstream agents.
• Designs and maintains Semantic Views that support Cortex Analyst and other AI/BI consumption layers.
• Organizational Support & Enablement: acts as a go-to resource across the Data & Analytics team for Snowflake capabilities, new feature adoption, and platform best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, with a Master's Degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, database/platform administration, or business intelligence, including at least 1 year with hands-on experience administering Snowflake or a similar cloud data platform in a production environment.
• Hands-on experience with a multi-account Snowflake architecture.
• Strong SQL programming skills.
• Experience with data ingestion and ETL/ELT tools, e.g. Fivetran/HVR, Matillion, dbt, Coalesce, Postman.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM enablement and tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Github Copilot, Snowflake Cortex Code.
• Experience with BI and visualization tools like Tableau or Sigma is a plus.
• Understanding of agentic architectures, including MCP servers and agent-to-agent communication, is a plus.
• Snowflake certification (SnowPro Core or Advanced) a strong plus.
• Familiarity with agile development practices.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with a focus on practical problem-solving within constraints.
• Strong technical documentation skills.
• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills to work collaboratively and cross-functionally with IT and business leads daily.

Benefits

We offer best-in-class benefits and perks that will support you and your family, including:

• Paid Parental Leave.
• United Compassion Fund.
• Employee Discount Program.
• Career Development & Promotional Opportunities.
• Additional Vacation Buy Up Program (US Only).
• Early Wage Access through Payactiv (US Hourly Only).
• Paid Sick Leave.