Senior Platform Engineer Data & Analytics Platforms

About usAt National Grid, we keep people connected and society moving. But it's so much more than that. National Grid supplies us with the environment to make it happen. As we generate momentum in the energy transition for all, we don't plan on leaving any of our customers in the dark. So, join us as a Senior Platform Engineer, and find your superpower. We need you!We want to find an innovative, adaptable, and results-oriented Senior Platform Engineer for our Data & Analytics Platform team. This position can be located in Waltham, MA, Brooklyn, NY, Hicksville, NY, or Syracuse, NY (candidates may also reside in either Connecticut, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, or Maine). If you yearn to be innovative, contribute new ideas, and play a critical part in our Technology & Innovation organization, we want to hear from you!About the role As Senior Platform Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, engineering, automating, and operating enterprise data and analytics platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and reliable data products, analytics solutions, and AI-enabled workloads.You'll provide broad platform engineering capability across National Grid's strategic data and analytics ecosystem, with emphasis on Snowflake engineering, Azure administration, platform automation, Microsoft Fabric enablement, governance, reliability, and operational support. You'll develop reusable patterns and self-service capabilities that improve consistency, reduce manual effort, and make platform services easier for teams to adopt and operate.What you'll do * Design, build, configure, and support enterprise data and analytics platform capabilities across Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Power BI, and associated services. * Engineer and administer Snowflake capabilities including databases, schemas, roles, grants, warehouses, resource monitors, tasks, streams, secure data sharing, marketplace patterns, workload management, and operational controls. * Develop reusable Snowflake patterns for onboarding, access management, data publication and consumption, workload isolation, environment configuration, and governed cross-business-unit data sharing. * Improve Snowflake performance and cost efficiency through query analysis, warehouse design, monitoring, resource management, usage analysis, and FinOps practices. * Build and maintain platform automation, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code, scripts, templates, and repeatable deployment patterns that reduce manual or ticket-driven administration. * Support Azure administration and platform integration, including identity, networking, private connectivity, monitoring, security alignment, and configuration of cloud services used by data platforms. * Support Microsoft Fabric and Power BI platform capabilities, including capacity and workspace administration, connectivity, governance controls, monitoring, operational readiness, and adoption patterns. * Embed governance, security, auditability, data quality, observability, and cost-management controls directly into platform capabilities and engineering patterns. * Support production services through monitoring, alerting, incident response, root cause analysis, runbooks, service ownership, resilience planning, and continuous improvement. * Partner with data engineering, architecture, security, cloud, governance, operations, product, and business-aligned teams to translate requirements into secure and supportable platform solutions. * Contribute to platform roadmaps and standards by identifying opportunities to modernize services, improve developer and consumer experience, enable governed self-service, and support advanced analytics and AI-enabled use cases.About you * Experience in platform engineering, data platform engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a DevOps-oriented role. * Hands-on experience engineering, administering, or operating Sno