Data Platform Administrator

SharkNinja

7h

About The Position

The Data Platform Administrator will play a critical role within the Data Platform team, responsible for supporting and evolving SharkNinja’s Snowflake-centric data ecosystem (Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Power BI). This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and governance of our data platform. You will play a key role in ensuring the data platform effectively supports the organization’s growing data, analytics, and AI needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience working with modern data platforms, with 2+ years of hands-on experience in Snowflake.
• Strong understanding of Snowflake Intelligence features.
• Experience implementing and managing RBAC and data access controls.
• Experience with dbt, including model development, testing, and deployment workflows.
• Proven experience with cost monitoring and optimization in cloud data platforms.
• Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of data warehousing concepts.
• Ability to troubleshoot data platform issues and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification.
• Experience supporting regulatory and data compliance frameworks (e.g., SOX, GDPR), including audit controls, access reviews, and data privacy considerations in cloud data platforms.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with data observability or monitoring tools.
• Experience working in Agile environments and ticket-driven workflows, using tools such as Jira.

Responsibilities

• Manage platform performance and scalability, identifying opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, and scalability while troubleshooting and resolving system bottlenecks.
• Implement and enforce role-based access control (RBAC) and data governance, security, and compliance policies across the data platform, including support for SOX controls, auditing, and access reviews.
• Manage user and service account access across the data platform, including role provisioning, access requests, and lifecycle management in alignment with security and compliance requirements.
• Support user access reviews (UAR) and audit processes by maintaining accurate role assignments, access controls, and supporting documentation.
• Monitor and optimize Snowflake usage and costs, including warehouse utilization, workload and query performance optimization, and data lifecycle and storage optimization.
• Support and monitor Snowflake AI capabilities, including Snowflake Intelligence and agent-based workflows, ensuring appropriate governance, performance, and cost controls are in place as these features are adopted.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering, Data Analytics, and AI/ML teams to ensure the data platform supports and scales with their roadmap initiatives and the organization’s evolving data needs.
• Contribute to documentation, standards, and operational best practices for platform usage and governance.
• Support data platform operations, including incident response and ongoing system reliability.

Benefits

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• flexible spending accounts
• health savings accounts (HSA) with company contribution
• 401(k) retirement plan with matching
• employee stock purchase program
• life insurance
• AD&D
• short-term disability insurance
• long-term disability insurance
• generous paid time off
• company holidays
• parental leave
• identity theft protection
• pet insurance
• pre-paid legal insurance
• back-up child and eldercare days
• product discounts
• referral bonus program
• wellness programs
• high impact Learning Programs featuring bold voices redefining what’s possible

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees