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# Global Snowflake Platform Lead

- **Company:** Investigo Limited
- **Location:** Egham, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £90,000.0 - £95,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, DevOps, Github, Cloud Platform System, Snowflake
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2842881564-global-snowflake-platform-lead

## About the Role

* Strong commercial experience with Snowflake within a data engineering or platform environment.
 * Good understanding of AWS and cloud-based data platforms, alongside experience with dbt.
 * Experience with DevOps, GitHub and CI/CD-based development and deployment practices.
 * Experience working across global teams, multiple business units and/or federated technology environments.
 * Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to remain hands-on while operating strategically.

## Description

A Global Snowflake Platform Lead is required to join a leading international organisation that is continuing to develop and scale its global data platform. This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of a strategic Snowflake environment already adopted across multiple countries, combining hands-on technical delivery with platform leadership, stakeholder management and third-party vendor management.

Working across a global data and technology function, you'll help evolve the Snowflake platform, support further international rollouts and enable data teams to adopt consistent, scalable and well-governed data engineering practices., * Own and evolve the global Snowflake platform, supporting its continued development and international rollout.

 * Balance hands-on Snowflake engineering with technical leadership, platform strategy and stakeholder engagement.
 * Define and implement standards across development, deployment, security, governance and platform operations.
 * Work closely with global data teams across the UK, US and Europe to enable adoption and deliver consistent platform capabilities.
 * Manage and technically oversee third-party vendors and delivery partners.


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