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Snowflake (Cortex) Platform Engineer - Insurance

Robert Walters
London Contract GBP 195,000 – 223,600
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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.

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates

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