Job Description
One of our clients, is looking for a Data Engineering Manager (Snowflake/dbt)
Location: Charlotte, NC
Position Type: Full Time
Seeking a Data Engineering Manager to own our enterprise Snowflake data platform and lead a high-performing data engineering team. In this hands-on leadership role, you will set the technical vision, enforce standards and best practices, and build the Central Data Platform from ingestion through consumption. You will combine deep Snowflake expertise with strong people leadership mentoring engineers, driving architectural decisions, and partnering cross-functionally to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-efficient data solutions. This is a high-impact position where you will shape our data strategy and influence tools, patterns, and capabilities across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Required:
Location: Charlotte, NC
Position Type: Full Time
Seeking a Data Engineering Manager to own our enterprise Snowflake data platform and lead a high-performing data engineering team. In this hands-on leadership role, you will set the technical vision, enforce standards and best practices, and build the Central Data Platform from ingestion through consumption. You will combine deep Snowflake expertise with strong people leadership mentoring engineers, driving architectural decisions, and partnering cross-functionally to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-efficient data solutions. This is a high-impact position where you will shape our data strategy and influence tools, patterns, and capabilities across the organization.
Key Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership & Team Management: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of data engineers and architects. Provide hands-on guidance through code reviews, architecture sessions, workshops, and 1:1s. Foster a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Platform Ownership: Own end-to-end architecture, design, implementation, and stewardship of the Snowflake platform (administration, data modeling, performance, cost optimization, security). Establish and evangelize enterprise standards for RBAC, row-level security, data sharing, lifecycle management, cloning, and AI features.
- Design Patterns & Integrations: Define and document scalable implementation patterns for ingestion (Fivetran), transformation and consumption layers using (dbt). Evaluate and drive adoption of new Snowflake capabilities and third-party tools.
- Performance, Reliability & Cost Optimization: Oversee monitoring, tuning (warehouse sizing, clustering, materializations), troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis to ensure reliability and efficiency at scale.
- Security & Compliance: Partner with InfoSec to implement and maintain advanced security controls (dynamic masking, encryption, auditing, RLS) while meeting regulatory requirements.
- Strategic Planning & Collaboration: Work with data, analytics, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to align the platform roadmap with enterprise priorities. Contribute to long-term strategy around cloud data platforms, AI, and analytics.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify and drive process, tooling, and platform enhancements that deliver measurable efficiency gains.
Qualifications:
Required:
- Proven leadership experience: 3 years directly leading and mentoring data engineering teams (or equivalent technical leadership in large-scale platforms).
- 5 years hands-on Snowflake and dbt experience (architecture, administration, engineering, data modeling).
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
- Deep expertise in SQL/SnowSQL and core Snowflake capabilities (Time Travel, Streams, Tasks, Snowpipe, data sharing, RBAC, RLS, Zero-Copy Cloning, etc.).
- Power BI architecture and optimization against Snowflake.
- End-to-end data warehouse / data lake delivery (medallion architecture, star/snowflake schemas, 3NF).
- Performance tuning, cost optimization, troubleshooting complex issues, and implementing preventative controls.
- Tooling: Fivetran, dbt, Informatica IDMC, DevOps (CI/CD, Git), and cloud platforms.
- Communication & influence: Able to translate technical concepts for both executive and technical audiences.
- Snowflake certifications (SnowPro Core Advanced Architect strongly preferred).
- Regulated industries experience (GDPR, HIPAA).
- Python or Java for automation and scripting.
- Large-scale data platform migrations or modernizations.
- Leadership presence and ability to influence at all levels.
- Collaborative team player who thrives in fast-paced environments.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and comfortable balancing strategic vision with hands-on delivery.
- Customer-focused with a passion for delivering high-quality, reliable data platforms.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Charlotte, NC |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $165,000–$175,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1984 |
| Website | https://www.mitchellmartin.com |
About Company
OUR FOCUS IS GROWTH
It’s not just about filling job openings. It’s about enabling growth and inspiring success. That’s what we do.
Mitchell Martin is one of the nation’s largest staffing companies, with offices throughout the US as well as in India and the Philippines. We help drive success for both people and companies by helping them achieve positive growth. We do this by building strong relationships and developing a deep understanding of the people we work with, in order to facilitate the best matches for both sides of the equation.
Skills
- Architectural Designunmatched
- Architectural Servicesunmatched
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
- Auditingunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Cloningunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Code Reviewsunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Continuous Integrationunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Cryptographyunmatched
- Customer Relationsunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- Data Lakeunmatched
- Data Migrationunmatched
- Data Modelingunmatched
- Data Warehousingunmatched
- Design Patterns Programming Methodologiesunmatched
- DevOpsunmatched
- Engineering Managementunmatched
- Gitunmatched
- HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)unmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Informaticaunmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
- Javaunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Machine Toolunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Performance Modelingunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Power BIunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Regulatory Requirementsunmatched
- Root Cause Analysisunmatched
- SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
- Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
- Snowflake Schemaunmatched
- Star Schemaunmatched
- Stewardshipunmatched
- Strategic Planningunmatched
- Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical Leadershipunmatched
- Warehousingunmatched
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