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Great people. Great opportunities.\nIf you’d like the chance to make your mark with the world’s largest equipment rental provider, come build your future with United Rentals!\n\nThe Lead Analyst, Data Platform Engineering serves as one the team’s Snowflake administrators and data pipeline engineers, 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 Lead Analyst plays a crucial 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.\n\nWhat you'll do:\nSnowflake Platform Administration\nServes 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.\n\nMonitors platform health, performance and cost, tuning workloads as needed to meet business SLAs.\n\nAudits and remediates security issues.\n\nManages availability between Snowflake accounts and partner platforms, whether cloud or on-prem.\n\nActivates, 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.\n\nData Pipeline & Ingestion Engineering\nDesigns, builds, and 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including MCP server-based agent-to-agent integrations.\n\nPartners with the broader data architecture team on context-layer efforts (ontology, knowledge graph) so agents can reliably query curated business data.\n\nCurate Data & Semantic Views\nBuilds and maintains curated data sets and business data models that feed dashboards, semantic views, and downstream agents.\n\nDesigns and maintains Semantic Views that support Cortex Analyst and other AI/BI consumption layers.\n\nPartners with BI and analytics teams (Sigma, Tableau) to ensure the curated layer meets reporting and self-service needs.\n\nReviews data for accuracy and production-readiness prior to release to business users and agents.\n\nOrganizational Support & Enablement\nActs as a go-to resource across the Data & Analytics team for Snowflake capabilities, new feature adoption, and platform best practices.\n\nDocuments platform architecture, runbooks, and how-to guides for the team and business users.\n\nTrains team members and business users on new tools, features, and capabilities relevant to their needs.\n\nStrategic Prioritization & Ownership\nTranslates business asks into clear priorities the team can act on.\n\nBalances short-term demands with long-term priorities.\n\nKnows when to escalate and when to resolve issues independently.\n\nEmbraces change and helps the team navigate ambiguity with confidence.\n\nTakes initiative and accountability, following through on commitments.\n\nFosters a culture of continuous learning and improvement.\n\nRequirements:\nBachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, with a Master’s Degree preferred\n\n5+ 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.\n\n1+ years leading complex projects or initiatives\n\nHands-on experience with a multi-account Snowflake architecture\n\nStrong SQL programming skills\n\nExperience with data ingestion and ETL/ELT tools, e.g. Fivetran/HVR, Matillion, dbt, Coalesce, Postman\n\nFamiliarity with AI/LLM enablement and tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Github Copilot, Snowflake Cortex Code\n\nExperience with BI and visualization tools like Tableau or Sigma is a plus\n\nUnderstanding of agentic architectures, including MCP servers and agent-to-agent communication, is a plus\n\nSnowflake certification (SnowPro Core or Advanced) a strong plus\n\nFamiliarity with agile development practices\n\nStrong analytical and critical thinking skills with a focus on practical problem-solving within constraints\n\nStrong technical documentation skills\n\nMust have excellent oral and written communication skills to work collaboratively and cross-functionally with IT and business leads daily\n\nWhy 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:\n\nPaid Parental Leave\n\nUnited Compassion Fund\n\nEmployee Discount Program\n\nCareer Development & Promotional Opportunities\n\nAdditional Vacation Buy Up Program (US Only)\n\nEarly Wage Access through Payactiv (US Hourly Only)\n\nPaid Sick Leave\n\nAn inclusive and welcoming culture\n\nExplore our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings\nFor Canadian benefits, click here\nUnited 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 for assistance.\nAt 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.\nUnited Rentals consists of a wide variety of roles with different duties and responsibilities. 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