Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator

Empower•Greenwood Village, CO

7d•$119,700 - $173,625

About The Position

The Sr. Cloud Database Administrator (Snowflake Platform) designs, implements, secures, optimizes, and maintains the enterprise Snowflake platform in AWS cloud environments. The role is responsible for platform administration, security, governance, performance optimization, automation, and operational excellence, partnering with Data Engineering, Analytics, DevOps, and Security teams to deliver a scalable and secure cloud data platform. The position operates in a professional office environment. The employer describes a flexible work environment and fluid career paths, but does not specify this position's workplace type.

Requirements

At least 8 years of database administration experience, including 3 or more years administering enterprise Snowflake environments.
Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, virtual warehouses, storage, compute optimization, and platform administration.
Hands-on experience implementing Snowflake security, including RBAC, masking policies, row access policies, network policies, and secure data sharing.
Experience designing and optimizing Snowflake performance, workload management, and cost optimization strategies.
Experience with Snowflake native capabilities including Tasks, Streams, Dynamic Tables, Snowpipe, External Tables, Secure Views, and Stored Procedures.
Experience managing Snowflake across AWS cloud environments.
Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and modern cloud data platforms.
Experience using Git-based source control and CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake object deployments.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar automation tools.
Strong SQL skills and experience with Python or Shell scripting for platform automation.
Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional technical teams.

Nice To Haves

SnowPro Core Certification or SnowPro Advanced Certifications.
Experience with dbt, Apache Airflow, Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar DevOps platforms.
Experience implementing enterprise data governance and security frameworks.
Experience administering cloud data platforms within AWS.
Experience supporting enterprise analytics, AI/ML, and modern data platform initiatives.

Responsibilities

Administer and maintain Snowflake databases, schemas, warehouses, roles, users, resource monitors, and data-sharing capabilities.
Design and implement scalable Snowflake architectures for enterprise analytics, data engineering, and AI/ML workloads.
Develop and maintain RBAC, row-level security, masking and network policies, and data governance standards.
Optimize warehouse sizing, query performance, clustering strategies, storage utilization, and platform cost efficiency.
Design and implement secure data sharing, external stages, storage integrations, Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, Dynamic Tables, and other native Snowflake capabilities.
Develop backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies using Time Travel, Fail-safe, replication, and cross-region replication.
Automate Snowflake deployments using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
Develop and maintain version-controlled SQL objects, including databases, schemas, tables, views, stored procedures, tasks, streams, sequences, and security objects.
Monitor platform health, resource consumption, query performance, and security events using Snowflake capabilities and enterprise observability tools.
Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to support dbt, Airflow, ELT pipelines, and enterprise data integration initiatives.
Develop Python and SQL automation for administrative tasks, platform provisioning, monitoring, and operational processes.
Partner with Security, Architecture, and Governance teams to implement platform standards, compliance requirements, and operational best practices.
Mentor database administrators and data engineers on Snowflake administration, platform standards, and operational excellence.
Stay current with Snowflake features, cloud technologies, and industry best practices, and recommend platform improvements.
Document platform architecture, administration procedures, standards, and operational runbooks.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
401(k) plan with company matching contributions up to 6%, financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup.
Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year.
Generous paid time off upon hire, including a paid time off program, ten paid company holidays, and three floating holidays each calendar year.
Paid volunteer time of 16 hours per calendar year.
Leave programs including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA).
Bonus program opportunity for non-sales positions.

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