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Principal System Engineer
@ BoehringerPRD
Canada
Overview
BoehringerPRD is hiring a Principal System Engineer to operate, secure and evolve one of its largest enterprise data platforms built on Snowflake and AWS. The role combines Snowflake administration, cloud engineering, automation and subject-matter expertise for global teams.
Responsibilities:
- Administer and optimize the enterprise Snowflake platform
- Manage Snowflake security, roles and governance controls
- Build automation for provisioning, monitoring and operations
- Troubleshoot platform incidents and performance issues
- Support CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code practices
Requirements summary:
- Strong hands-on Snowflake administration in enterprise environments
- Knowledge of AWS services such as IAM, Lambda and ECS
- Strong Python, Java and SQL development skills
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation
- Fluent English, written and spoken
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-07
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-10
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Job details
| Seniority | Lead |
| Department | IT |
| Work setting | Office, Home |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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BoehringerPRD
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Full company description
Our people are our strength. And together with over 54,000 colleagues, we're creating the next breakthrough in the world of healthcare and innovation for both humans and animals. Are you ready to join us? #LifeForward Privacy Notice: https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/privacy-notice Imprint: https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/imprint
- LinkedIn followers
- 2,250,548
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 46,750
- Reported office locations
- Binger Straße, Ingelheim am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate 55218, DE
- 813, Cours du 3ème Millénaire, Saint-Priest, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 69800, FR
- 900 Ridgebury Rd, Ridgefield, CT 06877, US
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- The Hyde Building 4th Floor, The Park Carrickmines, Dublin, Dublin 18, IE
- 5180 S Service Rd, Burlington, ON L7L 5H4, CA
- 3239 Satellite Blvd NW, Duluth, GA 30096, US
- 300 Beach Rd, Singapore, Singapore 199555, SG
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- Leof. Andrea Syngrou 340, Kallithea, Attica 176 73, GR
- Avenida de Pádua, Lisbon, Lisbon 1800-294, PT
- Avenue Ariane, St-Lambrechts-Woluwe, Brussels Region 1200, BE
- Strødamvej 52, Copenhagen, Capital Region 2100, DK
- Tammasaarenkatu 5, Helsinki, Southern Finland 00180, FI
- Hagaløkkveien 26, Asker, Akershus 1383, NO
- Hammarby allé 29, Stockholm, Stockholm County 120 61, SE
- 100-104, Avenue de France, Paris, Île-de-France 75013, FR
- 4, Rue Pierre Hadot, Reims, Grand Est 51100, FR
- 29, Avenue Tony Garnier, Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 69007, FR
- 4, Chemin du Calquet, Toulouse, Occitanie 31100, FR
- 805, Allée des Cyprès, Saint-Vulbas, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 01150, FR
- 1, Chemin de Cruzols, Lentilly, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 69210, FR
- Dr. Boehringer-Gasse 5-11, Vienna, 1120, AT
- 6701 Kaiser Dr, Fremont, California 94555, US
- Pudong New Area, Shanghai, 201203, CN
- Business categories
- Health Diagnostics
- Health Care
- Alternative Medicine
- Biotechnology
- Medical
- Pharmaceutical
- Other recorded names
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- BoehringerPRD
- Specialties
- Pharmaceuticals
- Animal Health
- Innovation
- Research
- Health Care
- Improve Health
- Biopharmaceuticals
- and Contract Manufacturing
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 0
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Our people are our strength. And together with over 54,000 colleagues, we're creating the next breakthrough in the world of healthcare and innovation for both humans and animals. Are you ready to join us? #LifeForward Privacy Notice: https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/privacy-notice Imprint: https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/imprint
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Pharmaceutical Manufacturing |
| Company size | 10,001+ employees |
| Headquarters | Ingelheim am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Specialties | PharmaceuticalsAnimal HealthInnovationResearchHealth CareImprove HealthBiopharmaceuticalsand Contract Manufacturing |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 42 |
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The Position
At Boehringer Ingelheim, data is a strategic asset that helps accelerate innovation and improve outcomes for patients around the world. Our global Data Platforms team provides the foundation that enables thousands of users, applications, and analytics solutions to access trusted and scalable data products.
As a Snowflake Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in operating, securing, and evolving one of the company's largest enterprise data platforms. Working with modern cloud technologies such as Snowflake and AWS, you will help deliver a reliable, scalable, and automated data ecosystem that empowers business functions and IT teams globally. Beyond platform operations and engineering, you will serve as a Snowflake subject matter expert, helping teams adopt best practices, solve complex challenges, and maximize the value of the platform.
This is an opportunity to combine deep Snowflake expertise with cloud engineering, automation, technical consulting, platform enablement, and modern software engineering practices while influencing the future direction of our data platform landscape.
Tasks and responsibilities
- Administer, operate, and continuously improve the enterprise Snowflake platform and its automations and integrated components, while helping engineering teams maximize platform adoption and value realization.
- Manage Snowflake security, roles, access controls, authentication, and governance controls.
- Monitor platform health, performance, availability, and cost efficiency.
- Support platform scalability, reliability, and operational excellence across global environments.
- Design and implement automation for platform provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and operational processes.
- Troubleshoot and resolve Snowflake platform incidents and performance issues.
- Collaborate with data engineering teams to optimize workloads, data pipelines, and data consumption patterns.
- Support CI/CD processes and Infrastructure-as-Code practices for platform deployment and management.
- Contribute to platform architecture and roadmap activities, and best-practice recommendations for Snowflake and AWS services.
- Implement and maintain platform observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards.
- Support event-driven and data integration patterns that enable scalable data movement.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, standards, and operational procedures.
- Contribute to continuous platform improvements, automation initiatives, and engineering best practices.
Requirements
Snowflake Expertise (Primary Requirement)
- Strong hands-on experience administering and operating Snowflake in enterprise environments.
- Deep understanding of Snowflake architecture, including:
- Virtual Warehouses;
- Storage & Compute Architecture;
- Resource Monitors;
- Security & RBAC;
- Data Sharing;
- Streams & Tasks;
- Snowpipe;
- Performance Optimization;
- Cost Management.
- Experience implementing Snowflake security and governance controls.
- Experience troubleshooting platform, security, and performance issues.
- Snowflake certification is highly desirable.
Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and architecture.
- Experience with:
- IAM Roles and Policies;
- Lambda;
- SQS;
- EventBridge;
- API Gateway;
- ECS.
- Understanding of cloud security principles and platform operations.
- Experience integrating Snowflake with cloud-native services.
Software Engineering & Automation
- Strong Python, Java and SQL development skills.
- Experience building automation and operational tooling.
- Understanding of software engineering best practices:
- Version Control (Git);
- Code Reviews;
- Testing;
- Maintainable Design.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and platform automation.
- Familiarity with event-driven and streaming architectures.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ownership mindset with a focus on operational excellence.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with globally distributed teams.
- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Continuous improvement mindset and passion for automation.
- Fluent English, written and spoken.
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