Senior Expert Snowflake (x|f|m) 

Join our Data Platforms team as a Senior Expert Snowflake (x|f|m) and help shape the future of our enterprise data landscape while supporting our mission of Simplifying Progress. You act as key interface between business stakeholders, architects and engineering teams to advance scalable data platforms, strengthen data governance and enable data-driven decision-making across the organization. Through collaboration across functions and regions, the role contributes to platform excellence, continuous improvement and sustainable business value that supports better health for more people.
Based in Göttingen or Madrid with the possibility to work some days in a week remotely.

Grow With Us – Your Responsibilities

• Define and further develop the Snowflake platform roadmap in alignment with enterprise data strategy and business priorities

• Establish the platform vision and manage priorities, demand intake and business requirements to maximize business value and support strategic objectives

• Drive data management initiatives to ensure data quality, consistency and compliance with enterprise data governance principles

• Define standards for data modeling, security, data quality and platform usage while promoting best practices across Snowflake development and operations

• Drive the adoption of enterprise data products, self-service analytics capabilities and modern data practices across business functions

• Establish ownership models for data products, business domains and platform capabilities to strengthen accountability and sustainable governance

• Identify opportunities to optimize data-related processes, improve operational efficiency and support continuous improvement initiatives

• Analyze complex datasets and derive actionable insights to support business decision-making and platform adoption

• Collaborate with Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, Operations, HR, IT and other stakeholders to develop business-oriented data solutions and support successful platform initiatives

• Coordinate activities across data engineers, architects and business users while managing dependencies with Azure Data Platform, SAP BW, SAP Datasphere and related enterprise systems

What Will Convince Us

• Academic degree in Data Science, Information Management, Business Analytics, Computer Science or a related field

• Significant experience in data management, data platforms, process optimization and project delivery within complex organizational environments

• Extensive experience designing, implementing and evolving modern data platforms based on Snowflake, Microsoft Azure and related cloud technologies

• Strong knowledge of enterprise data warehousing, data lakes, data products, data modeling, data quality, master data management and data governance principles

• Expertise in data integration, ETL/ELT processes, data pipelines, SQL, Python and modern DataOps and CI/CD practices

• Experience analyzing complex datasets and translating findings into actionable business recommendations

• Strong understanding of continuous improvement principles and the ability to enhance processes and operational efficiency through data-driven approaches

• Experience working in agile environments and collaborating effectively with business stakeholders, architecture teams and engineering functions

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to convey complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities combined with a structured, proactive and solution-oriented mindset

• Fluency in English

What We Offer

As a growing global life science company, stock listed on the MDAX and TecDAX, Sartorius offers a wide range of Benefits:

• Personal and Professional Development: Mentoring, leadership programs, Talent Talks, internal seminar offerings

• Work Life Balance: Remote options, flextime, flexible work schedules

• Attractive Compensation: Vacation and holiday bonuses including pension benefits and 30 vacation days

• Making An Impact Right From The Start: Comprehensive onboarding, including a virtual online platform even before joining, Welcome Workshops, "buddy" as point of contact

• Travel Benefits: car leasing, bike leasing, large free parking garage, good bus connections

• Welcoming Culture: Mutual support, teamspirit and international collaboration; communities on numerous topics, such as coaching, agile working and business women network

• This position is filled within the Sartorius Corporate Administration GmbH

We promote diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from people of all nationalities, genders, sexual orientations, religions, age groups, disabilities, and cultural backgrounds.

About Sartorius 

Sartorius is part of the solution in the fight against cancer, dementia, and many other diseases. Our technologies help translate scientific discoveries into real-world medicine faster, so that new therapeutics can reach patients worldwide. 

We look for ambitious team players and creative minds, who want to contribute to this goal and advance their careers in a dynamic global environment.

Join our global team and become part of the solution. We are looking forward to receiving your application. 
www.sartorius.com/careers