Snowflake Administrator

We are seeking a skilled Snowflake Administrator to manage, secure, optimize, and support our Snowflake data platform. This role will partner with data engineering, analytics, security, and application teams to ensure a reliable, scalable, and cost-effective environment.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Snowflake administration, role-based access control, performance tuning, monitoring, data security, and cloud data warehouse operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer Snowflake accounts, databases, schemas, warehouses, users, roles, and privileges.
• Implement and maintain role-based access controls, least-privilege access, and security policies.
• Monitor Snowflake usage, performance, storage, and credit consumption.
• Optimize virtual warehouses, queries, workloads, and resource utilization.
• Configure and manage integrations with cloud platforms, ETL tools, BI tools, and data pipelines.
• Support data loading, replication, cloning, time travel, fail-safe, and disaster recovery activities.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, auditing, and operational procedures.
• Troubleshoot access, performance, connectivity, and data processing issues.
• Partner with data engineers and analysts to support development, testing, and production environments.
• Assist with Snowflake upgrades, releases, migrations, and environment refreshes.
• Develop and maintain administrative documentation, runbooks, and support procedures.
• Promote automation using SQL, Python, Terraform, or other approved tools.
• Support compliance, governance, and audit requirements related to the data platform.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience administering Snowflake in an enterprise environment.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, security, RBAC, warehouses, databases, schemas, and resource monitors.
• Experience with SQL and Snowflake performance optimization.
• Experience managing users, roles, grants, authentication, and access governance.
• Knowledge of data loading and integration patterns using tools such as Fivetran, Informatica, dbt, Matillion, or similar.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, incident management, and production support processes.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• SnowPro Core or Snowflake Administrator certification.
• Experience with Terraform, Git, CI/CD, or infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Python or scripting experience for administrative automation.
• Knowledge of Snowflake governance, masking policies, row access policies, tagging, and sensitive-data controls.
• Experience with Snowflake replication, failover/failback, and disaster recovery.
• Familiarity with tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Airflow, dbt, or cloud-native services.
• Experience supporting regulated or highly controlled environments.

Success Measures

• Stable and reliable Snowflake platform operations.
• Timely resolution of access, performance, and data platform issues.
• Effective control of Snowflake compute and storage costs.
• Consistent application of security and governance standards.
• Well-documented administrative processes and operational runbooks.
• Successful transition from contract to long-term employment, based on business need