Platform Lead

Job Description

Role summary: Own Snowflake FinOps strategy and execution: cost visibility, optimization guardrails, budgeting/forecasting, and stakeholder alignment across engineering, ops, and business.

Key responsibilities
•Continuously monitor & analyze Snowflake spend (warehouses, credits, storage, QAS, result cache misses) and drive optimization (sizing, auto-suspend/resume, pruning, clustering/retention, query tuning).
•Decision authority on resource requests (warehouses, RBAC, data shares) using usage trends, concurrency, and SLA targets.
•Own the FinOps data mart & dashboards (cost by product/domain/user/warehouse; showback/chargeback).
•Build budgets & forecasts; publish monthly/quarterly outlooks and variance analyses; partner with Finance.
•Produce leadership reports and optimization backlogs; track realized savings.
•Align Snowflake admins, engineers, ops, and BUs to FinOps guardrails (tags/labels, RBAC, object lifecycl...