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Platform Engineering Manager roles attract strong H-1B visa and O-1 visa sponsorship because employers treat infrastructure leadership as a specialty occupation requiring a degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field. Most openings are at mid-to-large tech companies with established immigration programs. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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Great company. Great people. Great opportunities.
If you’d like the chance to make your mark with the world’s largest equipment rental provider, come build your future with United Rentals!
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Senior Analyst, Data Platform Engineering serves as the team’s primary Snowflake administrator and data pipeline engineer, 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 Senior Analyst plays a lead 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.
What you'll do:
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Snowflake Platform Administration
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Serves as the primary Snowflake administrator for URI’s Discovery accounts; managing users, roles, warehouses, RBAC / RLS / CLS, security policies, and other account-level configurations.
- Monitors platform health, performance and cost, tuning workloads as needed to meet business SLAs.
- Audits and remediates security issues.
- Manages availability between Snowflake accounts and partner platforms, whether cloud or on-prem.
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Activates, 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.
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Data Pipeline & Ingestion Engineering
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Designs, builds, and maintains data pipelines that ingest data from a variety of internal and external sources using multiple techniques including CDC / mirror replication, API-based ingestion, custom scripts, and traditional batch and file-based loads.
- Builds and maintains transformation workflows across the Foundation, Processed, and Curated layers of the enterprise data warehouse.
- Monitors pipeline and job performance, troubleshoots failures, and resolves data quality or timeliness issues.
- Partners with source system owners and corporate teams to onboard new data sources and define ingestion standards.
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Documents pipeline design, dependencies, and data lineage to support governance and troubleshooting.
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AI & Agent Enablement
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Supports enablement, testing, and rollout of AI applications and copilots (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT/Copilot, Snowflake Cortex Agents) across the analytics organization.
- Helps set up, configure, and monitor agents (e.g., Executive Agent, BI Agent, Ontology Agent), including MCP server-based agent-to-agent integrations.
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Partners with the broader data architecture team on context-layer efforts (ontology, knowledge graph) so agents can reliably query curated business data.
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Curate Data & Semantic Views
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Builds and maintains curated data sets and business data models that feed dashboards, semantic views, and downstream agents.
- Designs and maintains Semantic Views that support Cortex Analyst and other AI/BI consumption layers.
- Partners with BI and analytics teams (Sigma, Tableau) to ensure the curated layer meets reporting and self-service needs.
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Reviews data for accuracy and production-readiness prior to release to business users and agents.
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Organizational Support & Enablement
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Acts as a go-to resource across the Data & Analytics team for Snowflake capabilities, new feature adoption, and platform best practices.
- Documents platform architecture, runbooks, and how-to guides for the team and business users.
- Trains team members and business users on new tools, features, and capabilities relevant to their needs.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, with a Master’s Degree preferred
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, database/platform administration, or business intelligence, including at least 1 year with hands-on experience administering Snowflake or a similar cloud data platform in a production environment
- Hands-on experience with a multi-account Snowflake architecture
- Strong SQL programming skills
- Experience with data ingestion and ETL/ELT tools, e.g. Fivetran/HVR, Matillion, dbt, Coalesce, Postman
- Familiarity with AI/LLM enablement and tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Github Copilot, Snowflake Cortex Code
- Experience with BI and visualization tools like Tableau or Sigma is a plus
- Understanding of agentic architectures, including MCP servers and agent-to-agent communication, is a plus
- Snowflake certification (SnowPro Core or Advanced) a strong plus
- Familiarity with agile development practices
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with a focus on practical problem-solving within constraints
- Strong technical documentation skills
- Must have excellent oral and written communication skills to work collaboratively and cross-functionally with IT and business leads daily
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Why 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:
- Paid Parental Leave
- United Compassion Fund
- Employee Discount Program
- Career Development & Promotional Opportunities
- Additional Vacation Buy Up Program (US Only)
- Early Wage Access through Payactiv (US Hourly Only)
- Paid Sick Leave
- An inclusive and welcoming culture
Explore our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings
For Canadian benefits, click here
United 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 careers@ur.com for assistance.
At 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.
United Rentals consists of a wide variety of roles with different duties and responsibilities. The actual pay rate offered to candidates varies depending upon a wide range of factors including specific position, location, education, training, experience, skills, and ability.
INTRODUCTION
Great company. Great people. Great opportunities.
If you’d like the chance to make your mark with the world’s largest equipment rental provider, come build your future with United Rentals!
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Senior Analyst, Data Platform Engineering serves as the team’s primary Snowflake administrator and data pipeline engineer, 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 Senior Analyst plays a lead 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.
What you'll do:
-
Snowflake Platform Administration
-
Serves as the primary Snowflake administrator for URI’s Discovery accounts; managing users, roles, warehouses, RBAC / RLS / CLS, security policies, and other account-level configurations.
- Monitors platform health, performance and cost, tuning workloads as needed to meet business SLAs.
- Audits and remediates security issues.
- Manages availability between Snowflake accounts and partner platforms, whether cloud or on-prem.
-
Activates, 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.
-
Data Pipeline & Ingestion Engineering
-
Designs, builds, and maintains data pipelines that ingest data from a variety of internal and external sources using multiple techniques including CDC / mirror replication, API-based ingestion, custom scripts, and traditional batch and file-based loads.
- Builds and maintains transformation workflows across the Foundation, Processed, and Curated layers of the enterprise data warehouse.
- Monitors pipeline and job performance, troubleshoots failures, and resolves data quality or timeliness issues.
- Partners with source system owners and corporate teams to onboard new data sources and define ingestion standards.
-
Documents pipeline design, dependencies, and data lineage to support governance and troubleshooting.
-
AI & Agent Enablement
-
Supports enablement, testing, and rollout of AI applications and copilots (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT/Copilot, Snowflake Cortex Agents) across the analytics organization.
- Helps set up, configure, and monitor agents (e.g., Executive Agent, BI Agent, Ontology Agent), including MCP server-based agent-to-agent integrations.
-
Partners with the broader data architecture team on context-layer efforts (ontology, knowledge graph) so agents can reliably query curated business data.
-
Curate Data & Semantic Views
-
Builds and maintains curated data sets and business data models that feed dashboards, semantic views, and downstream agents.
- Designs and maintains Semantic Views that support Cortex Analyst and other AI/BI consumption layers.
- Partners with BI and analytics teams (Sigma, Tableau) to ensure the curated layer meets reporting and self-service needs.
-
Reviews data for accuracy and production-readiness prior to release to business users and agents.
-
Organizational Support & Enablement
-
Acts as a go-to resource across the Data & Analytics team for Snowflake capabilities, new feature adoption, and platform best practices.
- Documents platform architecture, runbooks, and how-to guides for the team and business users.
- Trains team members and business users on new tools, features, and capabilities relevant to their needs.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, with a Master’s Degree preferred
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, database/platform administration, or business intelligence, including at least 1 year with hands-on experience administering Snowflake or a similar cloud data platform in a production environment
- Hands-on experience with a multi-account Snowflake architecture
- Strong SQL programming skills
- Experience with data ingestion and ETL/ELT tools, e.g. Fivetran/HVR, Matillion, dbt, Coalesce, Postman
- Familiarity with AI/LLM enablement and tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Github Copilot, Snowflake Cortex Code
- Experience with BI and visualization tools like Tableau or Sigma is a plus
- Understanding of agentic architectures, including MCP servers and agent-to-agent communication, is a plus
- Snowflake certification (SnowPro Core or Advanced) a strong plus
- Familiarity with agile development practices
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with a focus on practical problem-solving within constraints
- Strong technical documentation skills
- Must have excellent oral and written communication skills to work collaboratively and cross-functionally with IT and business leads daily
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Why 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:
- Paid Parental Leave
- United Compassion Fund
- Employee Discount Program
- Career Development & Promotional Opportunities
- Additional Vacation Buy Up Program (US Only)
- Early Wage Access through Payactiv (US Hourly Only)
- Paid Sick Leave
- An inclusive and welcoming culture
Explore our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings
For Canadian benefits, click here
United 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 careers@ur.com for assistance.
At 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.
United Rentals consists of a wide variety of roles with different duties and responsibilities. The actual pay rate offered to candidates varies depending upon a wide range of factors including specific position, location, education, training, experience, skills, and ability.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Platform Engineering Manager
Target companies with dedicated immigration counsel
Large tech firms and well-funded scaleups typically have in-house immigration teams or retained law firms, which makes H-1B sponsorship faster and more reliable. Smaller companies often lack the infrastructure to sponsor management-level engineering roles.
Frame your degree as directly relevant to the role
USCIS approves Platform Engineering Manager petitions most cleanly when your degree is in computer science, software engineering, or information systems. A general business degree paired with strong engineering experience is harder to defend during a Request for Evidence.
Document your team leadership and technical scope
Sponsoring employers must show the role qualifies as a specialty occupation. Concrete evidence of platform ownership, headcount managed, and infrastructure decisions strengthens the petition and reduces the chance of USCIS questioning the management-to-technical ratio.
Ask about cap-exempt sponsorship if you're in academia or research
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and government-affiliated organizations are exempt from the H-1B annual cap. Platform engineering leadership roles at these organizations can be filed any time of year without waiting for the lottery.
Consider the O-1A if you have a strong professional track record
Platform Engineering Managers with patents, published work, speaking engagements at major conferences, or recognized contributions to open-source infrastructure may qualify for the O-1A, which has no cap and no lottery requirement.
Use Migrate Mate to filter for verified sponsoring employers
Not every job posting that mentions visa sponsorship will actually follow through for a management-level engineering hire. Migrate Mate surfaces roles from employers with documented sponsorship history, saving significant time during your search.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Platform Engineering Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, in most cases. USCIS evaluates whether the position normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific technical field. Platform Engineering Manager roles typically require a degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline, and that direct connection is what satisfies the specialty occupation standard. Hybrid roles that lean heavily toward general people management with minimal technical scope carry more risk during adjudication.
What degree do I need for an employer to sponsor my H-1B as a Platform Engineering Manager?
A bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a closely related field is the strongest foundation. Degrees in unrelated fields create complications even if you have years of hands-on platform experience. If your degree field doesn't match, three years of specialized work experience can substitute for each year of missing education, but this pathway requires more documentation and attorney support.
Are Platform Engineering Manager roles common among H-1B sponsoring employers?
Yes. Infrastructure and platform leadership is consistently among the more actively sponsored engineering management categories, particularly at cloud-native companies, enterprise software firms, and large-scale SaaS businesses. These employers file high volumes of H-1B visa petitions annually and typically have established processes. Migrate Mate lists Platform Engineering Manager openings specifically from employers with verified sponsorship history, which narrows your search considerably.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new Platform Engineering Manager role mid-cycle?
Yes. H-1B portability allows you to change employers and begin working for the new company as soon as they file a transfer petition, without waiting for approval, as long as your previous H-1B was approved and you've maintained valid status. The new employer still needs to file a fresh Labor Condition Application and I-129 petition. The specialty occupation analysis restarts, so the new role needs to meet the same technical degree requirements.
Does my seniority as a manager reduce my chances of H-1B approval compared to an individual contributor engineer?
Not inherently, but the risk profile is different. USCIS scrutinizes management roles more carefully to confirm that day-to-day duties require a specialized degree rather than general administrative oversight. Platform Engineering Managers whose work involves hands-on architecture decisions, technical roadmaps, and direct systems ownership fare better than those whose role is primarily headcount and budget management. Clear job duty documentation from the employer is critical.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Platform Engineering Manager jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.