The Role
Owns the enterprise Snowflake data platform end to end, including architecture, ingestion, transformation, security, governance, reliability, performance, cost optimization, and AI enablement. Establishes engineering standards, reviews architecture, resolves complex production issues, mentors data professionals, and leads cross-functional adoption of scalable, governed analytics capabilities. The role provides senior technical influence without direct people management and supports secure MCP-based AI integrations.
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Our Story:
Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc. (CPI) is the worldwide leader in evidence‑based de‑escalation and crisis prevention training and dementia care services. Our programs teach professionals the skills to recognize, prevent, and respond to crises in the workplace. Since 1980, we’ve helped train more than 17 million people across service‑oriented industries including education, health care, behavioral health, long‑term care, human services, security, corporate, and retail.
At CPI, we are dedicated to changing behaviors and reducing conflict for the Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security of everyone. We believe empathy, meaningful connections, personal safety, and security are the antidotes to fear and anxiety. This philosophy is central to everything we do and traces back to our beginning.
As a member of the team, you can expect to:
The Role:
The Principal Analytics Engineer is the organization’s most senior individual contributor for the enterprise data platform and serves as the end-to-end technical owner of Snowflake and its supporting ecosystem. This role is accountable for platform architecture, ingestion, data transformation, performance, reliability, security, governance, cost optimization, and operational excellence. The position reviews and guides architectural decisions across the data team, establishes engineering standards, and enables trusted analytics and AI capabilities, including secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) configurations and governed access to enterprise data. Working closely across the entire data team and with technology, security, AI, and business partners, this role is critical to driving successful, scalable Snowflake adoption across the enterprise.
What You Get to Do Every Day:
Crisis Prevention Institute, Inc. (CPI) is the worldwide leader in evidence‑based de‑escalation and crisis prevention training and dementia care services. Our programs teach professionals the skills to recognize, prevent, and respond to crises in the workplace. Since 1980, we’ve helped train more than 17 million people across service‑oriented industries including education, health care, behavioral health, long‑term care, human services, security, corporate, and retail.
At CPI, we are dedicated to changing behaviors and reducing conflict for the Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security of everyone. We believe empathy, meaningful connections, personal safety, and security are the antidotes to fear and anxiety. This philosophy is central to everything we do and traces back to our beginning.
As a member of the team, you can expect to:
- Make a difference through your work — You’ll be proud to tell your family and friends what you do.
- Gain significant career experience within a fast‑growing organization — From entry‑level roles to executive leadership.
- Feel fulfilled and have fun — We work hard but make time to build meaningful relationships and celebrate wins.
The Role:
The Principal Analytics Engineer is the organization’s most senior individual contributor for the enterprise data platform and serves as the end-to-end technical owner of Snowflake and its supporting ecosystem. This role is accountable for platform architecture, ingestion, data transformation, performance, reliability, security, governance, cost optimization, and operational excellence. The position reviews and guides architectural decisions across the data team, establishes engineering standards, and enables trusted analytics and AI capabilities, including secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) configurations and governed access to enterprise data. Working closely across the entire data team and with technology, security, AI, and business partners, this role is critical to driving successful, scalable Snowflake adoption across the enterprise.
What You Get to Do Every Day:
- Own the strategy, architecture, administration, reliability, and continuous evolution of the enterprise Snowflake platform and its supporting data ecosystem.
- Design and oversee scalable ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data-serving patterns across Snowflake, Fivetran, Power BI, and complementary technologies.
- Set and enforce platform standards for performance, workload management, reliability, observability, testing, deployment, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
- Own the technical implementation of Snowflake security, including roles and access controls, authentication, network policies, data protection, auditing, privacy, and secure data sharing in partnership with Information Security.
- Serve as the senior architecture authority for the data platform by reviewing major designs, challenging tradeoffs, reducing unnecessary complexity, and ensuring decisions align with enterprise architecture, governance, and long-term maintainability.
- Lead the technical enablement of AI use cases on governed enterprise data, including secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and client configurations, tool access patterns, data interfaces, and controls for AI-assisted workflows and agents.
- Establish reusable engineering patterns, reference architectures, coding practices, documentation expectations, and review processes that improve quality and delivery across the data team.
- Partner closely with analytics engineers, BI professionals, AI teams, application teams, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to deliver trusted platform capabilities and accelerate enterprise adoption.
- Diagnose and resolve the most complex production, performance, integration, and security issues; lead root-cause analysis and drive durable remediation.
- Provide deep technical mentorship and influence across the data team without direct people-management responsibility, raising engineering capability and guiding critical decisions.
- Define and monitor platform health, adoption, service levels, cost, and value metrics; maintain a prioritized technical roadmap that supports successful Snowflake adoption across the enterprise.
- Bachelor's Degree
- At least 10 years of progressive experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, data platform engineering, cloud data architecture, or a closely related field, including ownership of business-critical production data platforms.
- Extensive hands-on experience architecting, administering, securing, optimizing, and operating Snowflake in an enterprise environment.
- Demonstrated experience designing and owning production ingestion, transformation, orchestration, observability, and data-serving patterns across a modern cloud data stack.
- Demonstrated success serving as a senior technical authority, reviewing architecture, influencing cross-functional decisions, mentoring experienced engineers, and leading resolution of complex platform issues.
- Experience partnering with security, infrastructure, application, analytics, AI, and business teams to deliver secure, governed, highly adopted enterprise data capabilities.
- Expert-level Snowflake knowledge spanning architecture, administration, virtual warehouses, workload management, performance tuning, cost governance, data sharing, replication, recovery, security, monitoring, and operational support.
- Expert SQL and deep knowledge of data modeling, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, testing, observability, version control, release automation, and production engineering practices.
- Deep understanding of enterprise security and governance patterns, including least-privilege access, role design, authentication, network controls, encryption, secrets management, auditing, privacy, lineage, and data lifecycle management.
- Strong knowledge of AI-enablement patterns for enterprise data, including secure MCP configuration, governed data access, retrieval and tool-integration patterns, and controls for AI-assisted applications and agents.
- Exceptional architecture judgment and the ability to evaluate tradeoffs across simplicity, scalability, security, performance, cost, governance, resilience, and maintainability.
- Ability to lead through technical influence, conduct rigorous design and code reviews, mentor experienced practitioners, establish standards, and build alignment across teams without relying on formal authority.
- Strong communication, consulting, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to explain complex platform decisions to technical and executive audiences and connect engineering choices to business outcomes.
- Demonstrated ownership, sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to operate independently across high-impact priorities while partnering closely across the data team and enterprise.
- Deep experience with Snowflake-native capabilities, ingestion technologies such as Fivetran, cloud services, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and enterprise business intelligence platforms such as Power BI.
- Experience designing secure AI-ready data architectures, including retrieval patterns, agent or tool integrations, natural-language analytics, vector or unstructured data capabilities, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) configurations.
- Experience designing enterprise semantic layers, governed metrics, metadata, lineage, data quality, privacy controls, and self-service analytics capabilities.
- Experience simplifying or modernizing complex data platforms and leading enterprise-scale platform adoption or migration initiatives.
- Relevant Snowflake, cloud architecture, security, data engineering, or Power BI certifications are beneficial but not required.
- Comprehensive compensation package
- Comprehensive benefits package
- 401k
- PTO
- Health & Wellness Days
- Paid Volunteer Time Off
- Continuing education and training
- Hybrid / Remote work schedule
- Paid Parental Leave
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- At least 10 years of progressive experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, data platform engineering, cloud data architecture, or a related field
- Experience owning business-critical production data platforms
- Extensive experience architecting, administering, securing, optimizing, and operating Snowflake in an enterprise environment
- Experience designing and owning production ingestion, transformation, orchestration, observability, and data-serving patterns
- Experience serving as a senior technical authority, reviewing architecture, influencing decisions, mentoring engineers, and resolving complex platform issues
- Experience partnering with security, infrastructure, application, analytics, AI, and business teams
- Expert-level Snowflake knowledge, including architecture, administration, workload management, performance tuning, cost governance, data sharing, recovery, security, monitoring, and operational support
- Expert SQL and deep knowledge of data modeling, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, testing, observability, version control, release automation, and production engineering
- Deep understanding of enterprise security and governance patterns
- Strong knowledge of AI enablement patterns, secure MCP configuration, governed data access, retrieval, and tool integration
- Exceptional architecture judgment and ability to evaluate scalability, security, performance, cost, governance, resilience, and maintainability tradeoffs
- Ability to lead through technical influence, conduct design and code reviews, mentor practitioners, and establish standards
- Strong communication, consulting, and stakeholder-management skills
- Ownership, sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, and ability to operate independently
- Experience with Snowflake-native capabilities, Fivetran, cloud services, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and Power BI
- Experience designing secure AI-ready data architectures, semantic layers, governed metrics, metadata, lineage, data quality, privacy controls, and self-service analytics
- Experience modernizing complex data platforms or leading enterprise-scale adoption and migration initiatives
- Relevant Snowflake, cloud architecture, security, data engineering, or Power BI certifications
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The Company
What We Do
Since 1980, the Crisis Prevention Institute has helped millions of individuals begin a journey of positive, supportive, and empathic caring for people of all ages. • We believe in the power of empathy, compassion, and meaningful connections. • We consider personal safety and security the antidotes to fear and anxiety; and that listening leads to understanding. • We know when those who care for others feel prepared and confident in their abilities, they can make the world a better place. CPI’s crisis prevention training gives professionals the confidence to prevent and respond to workplace violence. With a focus on healthcare, education, human services, and dementia care, CPI sets the standard for best practices in evidence-based workplace violence prevention. Our training is designed to support the safety and well-being of both staff and those in their care. We teach the skills that help professionals de-escalate verbal and physical crises in the workplace, with an array of solutions that address the full spectrum of risk levels. Solutions Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® Training: Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training focuses on verbal de-escalation and early intervention, giving staff an effective framework for decision making and problem solving, as well as teaching safe disengagements and physical interventions that can be implemented with the least use of force, providing the safest environment for all parties involved. Verbal Intervention™ Training: This program is ideal for organizations that have a hands-off policy, and for staff members who don’t experience higher risk situations requiring physical interventions, instilling the confidence and skills to verbally respond to disruptive behaviors, and prevent further escalation. To learn more about CPI and our full offering of industry-leading solutions, visit us today at crisisprevention.com.
