Position Overview
The Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator is the senior hands-on owner of the Snowflake platform that underpins the Zelis Data & AI Cloud (ZDC). As Zelis moves to an AI-Native model, our data fabrics, dashboards, and AI workloads all run on this Snowflake foundation - this role keeps it secure, governed, performant, and cost-efficient.

What You'll Do:

• Account & security administration - manage Snowflake accounts, databases, schemas, warehouses, users, roles, and resource monitors; design and maintain a clean RBAC model and least-privilege access; integrate identity via SSO / SCIM (Okta / Entra ID).

• Governance & data protection - implement and maintain network policies, tag-based masking, row-/column-level access policies, tokenization, and encryption; leverage Snowflake Horizon for governance and monitoring; own PHI/DLP guardrails and support audit and compliance (HIPAA).

• Warehouse, compute & FinOps - size, tune, and optimize virtual warehouses (auto-suspend/resume, query tagging); manage resource monitors; drive cost management with chargeback/showback and unit-economics KPIs.

• Environment management & resilience - own dev/test/prod environments and cloning; design and operate Snowflake Data Sharing, external stages on AWS S3, Apache Iceberg tables, replication, Time Travel / Fail-safe, disaster-recovery / failover, and backup strategies.

• Performance, reliability & troubleshooting - query performance tuning, workload isolation, and capacity planning; diagnose and resolve Snowflake performance, pipeline, and access issues; partner with Data Operations on run-state issues.

• Platform automation & CI/CD - manage Snowflake objects as code (schemachange / dbt / Terraform); build automation with Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, and Dynamic Tables; support deployment pipelines and release discipline.

• Documentation & runbooks - maintain platform documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.

• Standards, enablement & architecture partnership - document platform standards and guardrails; enable engineering and business-unit teams to build safely on the platform; partner with Data Platforms & Tooling on Snowflake architecture and solution design.

• Technical oversight - provide guidance and technical oversight to distributed / offshore Snowflake administration resources.

What You'll Bring to Zelis:

• 8+ years in data platform / data engineering roles, including 5+ years hands-on Snowflake administration in production.

• Deep RBAC / security design and data-governance experience (masking, access policies).

• Strong warehouse tuning, performance, and cost-optimization skills.

• Infrastructure-as-code, scripting, and CI/CD for Snowflake (Terraform, Bash/Python, schemachange, dbt, GitHub, or equivalent).

• Advanced SQL (Python preferred) and strong data-warehousing / dimensional-modeling fundamentals.

• Experience running Snowflake on AWS (S3 external stages, storage integrations) and familiarity with core AWS services.

Preferred qualifications

• SnowPro Core certification (SnowPro Advanced: Administrator a plus).

• Healthcare data experience; working knowledge of HIPAA / PHI controls and DLP.

• Experience protecting sensitive data at scale (tokenization, dynamic data masking).

• Familiarity with Sigma, dbt, OpenFlow ingestion, and the medallion architecture.

• Exposure to Snowflake Cortex / AI workloads and their governance implications.

Please note at this time we are unable to proceed with candidates who require visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Location and Workplace Flexibility

Zelis is headquartered in the U.S., with multiple locations across the country and in Hyderabad, India. Check out our locations to learn more about our offices. All employee work locations are based on the needs of the position and are determined by the Leadership team. In-office work and activities vary based on work and team objectives in accordance with Company policies.

While location expectations vary by role, candidates within approximately 50 miles of a U.S. office are generally preferred to support collaboration when needed. Our hybrid approach is flexible, and in-office presence is guided by team and business needs rather than a fixed weekly schedule.

Base Salary Range
$139,000.00 - $176,700.00

At Zelis we are committed to providing fair and equitable compensation packages. The base salary range allows us to make an offer that considers multiple individualized factors, including experience, education, qualifications, as well as job-related and industry-related knowledge and skills, etc. Base pay is just one part of our Total Rewards package, which may also include discretionary bonus plans, commissions, or other incentives depending on the role.

Zelis' full-time associates are eligible for a highly competitive benefits package as well, which demonstrates our commitment to our employees' health, well-being, and financial protection. The US-based benefits include a 401k plan with employer match, flexible paid time off, holidays, parental leaves, life and disability insurance, and health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.