Snowflake
Senior Director, Analytics Engineering, Data Analytics & AI
$292K–$383K
US-CA-Menlo Park · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 19, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years; includes second-line leadership experience managing managers or senior individual contributors across multiple teams.
About the job
Leads Snowflake’s Analytics Engineering organization and its governed data pipelines, internal analytics agents, and AI-ready data foundation.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow a team of 20+ Analytics Engineers through team leads and managers, setting priorities and technical strategy.
- Build and maintain analytics agents, semantic layers, and AI-ready data foundations; drive AI-assisted engineering workflows.
- Partner with business, Product, Engineering, and go-to-market teams on roadmaps, customer conversations, and data transformation.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in analytics engineering, data engineering, or data architecture, including second-line leadership managing managers or senior individual contributors across multiple teams.
- Deep expertise in Snowflake, including data modeling, governance, and its broader feature set; expert-level dbt skills.
- Hands-on experience with Airflow or similar orchestration platforms.
- Track record owning finance- or revenue-critical data pipelines and driving large-scale data transformation initiatives.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with GTM and sales analytics; experience with downstream BI tools such as Streamlit, Sigma, or Tableau.
- Advanced adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools such as Cortex Code, Claude Code, or similar agent frameworks.
Pay
$292,000 – $383,250 USD base salary; equity and bonus offered, amounts not stated.
Tools
Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Dynamic Tables, Streams, Tasks, Horizon, Cortex
AI focus
Create an AI-ready data foundation and own internal analytics agents; adopt Cortex Code-based agentic workflows and AI-assisted engineering tools, including agentic skill development and prompt engineering.
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