Lead Database Engineer

DTCC Digital Assets•Dallas, TX

34d•Hybrid

About The Position

As an Associate Director of Database Engineering for Snowflake, you will lead with strategic vision to strengthen our data foundation, enhance performance, and drive innovation across the enterprise. By aligning technology initiatives with business objectives you will enable scale, secure high-impact data solutions that accelerate decision making, empower teams, and advance our data strategy with Snowflake in the data cloud ecosystem.

Requirements

Minimum of 6 years of related experience
Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

Snowflake admin expertise; SnowPro Core certification preferred
SQL programming & RDBMS experience (Snowflake, Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
Proficiency in Python & Bash on Linux
Basic Terraform/Ansible skills
CI/CD experience (GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins)
Basic AWS IaaS skills (Azure/GCP acceptable)
Familiarity with Agile/Scrum & JIRA
Knowledge of ITSM processes & ServiceNow

Responsibilities

Integrate Snowflake with IAM (Azure AD, Hashicorp Vault)
Integrate Snowflake monitoring to observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, Dynatrace)
Work with Linux batch scheduling (Autosys or equivalent)
Apply FinOps concepts for cost/performance optimization
Administer Snowpark containers, Snowpipe streaming, and Cortex AI services
Package new Snowflake features for enterprise use
Validate non-functional requirements (DR, backup)
Collaborate with app teams for seamless integration
Use CI/CD tools (GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins)
Perform Snowflake & AWS admin via Terraform/Ansible
Provide escalated support and consulting
Develop documentation, training, and job aids
Support DR and operational rotation activities
Report defects and coordinate fixes with Snowflake

Benefits

Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
Pension / Retirement benefits
Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

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