Sr. Snowflake Administrator | About You As a Sr. Snowflake Administrator, you are responsible for the reliability, security, scalability, and cost governance of an enterprise Snowflake data platform hosted on AWS. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in owning production platforms end to end and operating as the technical authority for Snowflake administration and governance. You are comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy, influencing architecture, standards, and roadmap decisions, and partnering closely with engineering, security, and cloud platform teams. A security-first mindset, strong operational discipline, and an ability to balance performance, cost, and governance are essential. You take pride in building data platforms that are trusted, well-governed, and built to scale.
Sr. Snowflake Administrator | Day-to-Day - Own and administer enterprise Snowflake environments across development, test, and production.
- Define and enforce platform standards, including access models, naming conventions, and operating procedures.
- Design and maintain Snowflake security and governance controls, including RBAC, data masking, access policies, audit logging, and data classification.
- Optimize platform performance, scalability, and availability through warehouse sizing strategies, clustering, and query optimization.
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis for Snowflake platform issues, driving long-term remediation.
- Own Snowflake cost governance, including resource monitors, usage policies, forecasting, and executive-level cost reporting.
Sr. Snowflake Administrator | Skills & Experience - 7+ years of experience in data platform, database, or cloud data administration roles.
- Hands-on Snowflake administration experience in enterprise or production environments.
- Strong expertise in SQL, data warehousing concepts, and cloud-based data platforms.
- Deep experience with AWS services, including S3, IAM, networking, and security integrations.
- Proven experience owning production platforms with accountability for reliability, security, and cost.
- Experience partnering with Security, Risk, Compliance, and Cloud Platform teams in regulated or enterprise environments.
- Snowflake SnowPro Core or Advanced (Admin or Architect) certification is a plus.
