Posted 21 July, 2026
Snowflake (Cortex) Platform Engineer - Insurance
Robert Walters
London, ENG, GB
Full Time
Job Description
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.
\nJoin 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
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- Own Snowflake platform administration, performance, and cost optimisation. \n
- Manage RBAC, access controls, SSO integrations, and security policies. \n
- Implement data masking, row-level security, audit logging, and network controls. \n
- Deliver platform upgrades, new feature adoption, and Terraform-based deployments. \n
- Partner with Data Engineering, Security, and Cloud teams to drive best practices and continuous improvement. \n
- Act as the Snowflake SME for platform operations, governance, and architecture. \n
Essential Skills
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- Strong enterprise Snowflake administration experience. \n
- Cortex AI \n
- Expertise in Snowflake security, RBAC, governance, and access management. \n
- Experience with warehouse management, performance tuning, and cost optimisation. \n
- Strong SQL skills and knowledge of Account Usage and Information Schema. \n
- Terraform (or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tooling). \n
- Cloud platform, networking, and identity management experience (e.g. Okta, Azure AD). \n
- Available to start within 1 month (maximum notice period). \n
Highly Desirable
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- SnowPro certification. \n
- Snowpark, Dynamic Tables, Data Sharing, or Clean Rooms. \n
- Python automation. \n
- dbt, Fivetran, Matillion, Alation, or Collibra. \n
- Experience within regulated environments. \n
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