Role summary: Own Snowflake FinOps strategy and execution: cost visibility, optimization guardrails, budgeting/forecasting, and stakeholder alignment across engineering, ops, and business.

Key responsibilities
    •    Continuously monitor & analyze Snowflake spend (warehouses, credits, storage, QAS, result cache misses) and drive optimization (sizing, auto-suspend/resume, pruning, clustering/retention, query tuning).
    •    Decision authority on resource requests (warehouses, RBAC, data shares) using usage trends, concurrency, and SLA targets.
    •    Own the FinOps data mart & dashboards (cost by product/domain/user/warehouse; showback/chargeback).
    •    Build budgets & forecasts; publish monthly/quarterly outlooks and variance analyses; partner with Finance.
    •    Produce leadership reports and optimization backlogs; track realized savings.
    •    Align Snowflake admins, engineers, ops, and BUs to FinOps guardrails (tags/labels, RBAC, object lifecycles).
    •    Evangelize best practices (schema design, file sizing, micro-partitions, caching) and run office hours.

Requirements
    •    7+ yrs in data/platform; 3+ yrs hands-on with Snowflake cost levers & performance.
    •    Strong SQL, query profiling (QUERY_HISTORY), WAREHOUSE tuning, RBAC, Resource Monitors, Tags, Tasks/Streams, Time Travel/Fail-safe tuning.
    •    FinOps mindset; comfortable with budgets/forecasts and executive storytelling.

KPIs
    •    Credits per query/domain ↓, % auto-suspend compliance ↑, warehouse right-sizing rate ↑, forecast accuracy ±5–10%, $ savings realized vs plan, % workloads covered by showback/chargeback.

Tooling
    •    Snowflake (ACCOUNT_USAGE/ORGANIZATION_USAGE), Snowsight, dbt/Dataform, Python, Looker/Power BI, Git, Terraform (snowflake provider).