Lead Analyst, Data Platform Engineering

United Rentals is seeking a Lead Analyst, Data Platform Engineering to administer and maintain its Snowflake platform and build reliable data pipelines and curated data layers. The role also enables AI applications and agents, develops semantic views, evaluates new Snowflake capabilities, and supports platform adoption across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as one of the Snowflake administrators for URI’s Discovery accounts; managing users, roles, warehouses, RBAC / RLS / CLS, security policies, and other account-level configurations
• Monitors platform health, performance and cost, tuning workloads as needed to meet business SLAs
• Audits and remediates security issues
• Manages availability between Snowflake accounts and partner platforms, whether cloud or on-prem
• Activates, tests, and evaluates Snowflake Private Preview capabilities (e.g., Agent / CoWork / Semantic enhancements, new ingestion or compute features, etc.) ahead of general availability, documenting findings and recommending adoption strategies
• Designs, builds, and maintains data pipelines that ingest data from a variety of internal and external sources using multiple techniques including CDC / mirror replication, API-based ingestion, custom scripts, and traditional batch and file-based loads
• Builds and maintains transformation workflows across the Foundation, Processed, and Curated layers of the enterprise data warehouse
• Monitors pipeline and job performance, troubleshoots failures, and resolves data quality or timeliness issues
• Partners with source system owners and corporate teams to onboard new data sources and define ingestion standards
• Documents pipeline design, dependencies, and data lineage to support governance and troubleshooting
• Supports enablement, testing, and rollout of AI applications and copilots (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT/Copilot, Snowflake Cortex Agents) across the analytics organization
• Helps set up, configure, and monitor agents (e.g., Executive Agent, BI Agent, Ontology Agent), including MCP server-based agent-to-agent integrations
• Partners with the broader data architecture team on context-layer efforts (ontology, knowledge graph) so agents can reliably query curated business data
• Builds and maintains curated data sets and business data models that feed dashboards, semantic views, and downstream agents
• Designs and maintains Semantic Views that support Cortex Analyst and other AI/BI consumption layers
• Partners with BI and analytics teams (Sigma, Tableau) to ensure the curated layer meets reporting and self-service needs
• Reviews data for accuracy and production-readiness prior to release to business users and agents
• Acts as a go-to resource across the Data & Analytics team for Snowflake capabilities, new feature adoption, and platform best practices
• Documents platform architecture, runbooks, and how-to guides for the team and business users
• Trains team members and business users on new tools, features, and capabilities relevant to their needs
• Translates business asks into clear priorities the team can act on
• Balances short-term demands with long-term priorities
• Knows when to escalate and when to resolve issues independently
• Embraces change and helps the team navigate ambiguity with confidence
• Takes initiative and accountability, following through on commitments
• Fosters a culture of continuous learning and improvement

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field
• 5+ years of experience in database/platform administration, data engineering, or business intelligence, including at least 1 year with hands-on experience administering Snowflake or a similar cloud data platform in a production environment
• 1+ years leading complex projects or initiatives
• Hands-on experience with a multi-account Snowflake architecture
• Strong SQL programming skills
• Experience with data ingestion and ETL/ELT tools, e.g. Fivetran/HVR, Matillion, dbt, Coalesce, Postman
• Familiarity with AI/LLM enablement and tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Github Copilot, Snowflake Cortex Code
• Familiarity with agile development practices
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with a focus on practical problem-solving within constraints
• Strong technical documentation skills
• Must have excellent oral and written communication skills to work collaboratively and cross-functionally with IT and business leads daily
• Master's Degree
• Experience with BI and visualization tools like Tableau or Sigma
• Understanding of agentic architectures, including MCP servers and agent-to-agent communication
• Snowflake certification (SnowPro Core or Advanced)