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If you'd like the chance to make your mark with the world's largest equipment rental provider, come build your future with United Rentals. The Senior Analyst, Data Platform Engineering serves as the team's primary Snowflake administrator and data pipeline engineer, responsible for the day-to-day security, performance, and reliability of United Rentals' Snowflake platform. This role designs and builds data pipelines that ingest data from a wide variety of sources, and develops the curated, agent-ready data layers that power the enterprise's BI and AI ecosystem.

The Senior Analyst plays a lead role in enabling AI applications such as Claude and ChatGPT across the organization, including configuring and monitoring AI agents, building semantic views, and managing data shares between Snowflake accounts. This person is also responsible for activating and testing Snowflake Private Preview capabilities, helping the team stay ahead of platform innovation and bringing new capabilities into production. **The ideal candidate would be able to support the Pacific Time Zone or be located in Scottsdale, AZ, La Porte, TX, Boise ID** What you'll do: Snowflake Platform Administration Serves as the primary Snowflake administrator 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. Data Pipeline & Ingestion Engineering 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.

AI & Agent Enablement 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

Curate Data & Semantic Views 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. Organizational Support & Enablement 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. Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, with a Master's Degree preferred 5+ years of experience in data engineering, database/platform administration, or business intelligence, including at least 1 year with hands-on experience administering Snowflake or a similar cloud data platform in a production environment 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 Experience with BI and visualization tools like Tableau or Sigma is a plus Understanding of agentic architectures, including MCP servers and agent-to-agent communication, is a plus Snowflake certification (SnowPro Core or Advanced) a strong plus 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 Why join us

We don't just "talk the talk!" We're an award-winning company (recently named a Glassdoor Best Place to Work in 2026) that truly cares about our people - That's why we offer best-in-class benefits and perks that will support you and your family. In addition to our health and financial plans, we also offer: Paid Parental Leave United Compassion Fund Employee Discount Program Career Development & Promotional Opportunities Additional Vacation Buy Up Program (US Only) Early Wage Access through Payactiv (US Hourly Only) Paid Sick Leave An inclusive and welcoming culture Explore our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings For Canadian benefits, click here United Rentals, Inc

is an Equal Opportunity Employer and makes employment decisions regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or any other status protected by law. If you need a reasonable accommodation at any point of the application process, please email careers@ur.com for assistance. At United Rentals, we proudly hire active duty members, veterans, reservists, and their families

The values that define your service-leadership, discipline, integrity, and teamwork-are the same values that drive our success. With many veterans already part of our team, we're ready to help you transition into a rewarding career. United Rentals consists of a wide variety of roles with different duties and responsibilities.

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