Lead Data Platform Engineer, Snowflake

Overview

Who we are Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like  one of the world’s most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We’re looking for talented team members who want to Dream.

Do. Grow. with us. An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world‑changing company—delivering on Toyota's vision to move people beyond what's possible. At TFS, you will help create best‑in‑class customer experience in an innovative, collaborative environment.

To save time applying, Toyota does not offer sponsorship of job applicants for employment‑based visas or any other work authorization for this position.

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Data Platform Engineer, Snowflake to design, maintain, secure, and optimize our Snowflake data platform and analytical ecosystem that supports it. This role will be responsible for platform administration, user onboarding, governance, observability, audit readiness, and the establishment of Snowflake best practices across warehouses, databases, schemas, and access controls. The ideal candidate will also help build a Center of Excellence and evaluate new Snowflake capabilities such as Cortex and emerging agentic AI use cases.

• Design, implement, and maintain a secure, scalable, and reliable Snowflake platform across multiple environments
• Manage Snowflake warehouses, databases, schemas, roles, and access controls following enterprise best practices
• Develop and enforce standards for performance optimization, cost management, workload management, and platform usage
• Administer platform security including role‑based access control, least‑privilege access, masking policies, row access policies, and audit controls
• Lead user onboarding activities including provisioning, access setup, role assignments, documentation, and enablement support
• Build and document best practices for Snowflake platform design, operations, governance, security, and support
• Monitor platform performance, cost, access activity, and usage trends through observability and audit capabilities
• Establish logging, auditing, and monitoring standards to improve operational visibility and compliance readiness
• Partner with data engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure teams to support adoption and platform maturity
• Contribute as a core team member in setting up a Snowflake Center of Excellence to drive standards, reusable patterns, governance, and training
• Evaluate and recommend adoption of new Snowflake features including Cortex and other agentic or AI‑enabled capabilities
• Troubleshoot platform issues related to performance, configuration, security, access, and operational stability

Success means being the person others trust to keep Snowflake stable, secure, and ready for growth while helping the organization adopt better practices and innovative features.

• 8 or more years of experience designing, administering, and supporting Snowflake in an enterprise environment
• Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture including virtual warehouses, databases, schemas, storage, cloning, time travel, and secure data sharing
• Hands‑on experience with Snowflake security models including masking policies, row‑level security, and governance controls
• Experience with observability, audit logging, usage monitoring, and cost optimization for cloud data platforms
• Ability to document standards, operational procedures, governance controls, and best practices clearly and effectively
• Experience onboarding users and supporting cross‑functional teams in a shared data platform environment
• Hands‑on experience with AWS cloud services and solutions
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem‑solving skills
• Experience establishing or contributing to a Data Platform or Snowflake Center of Excellence (bonus)
• Experience with…