Snowflake Admin

Role Overview

Seeking Senior Snowflake Admin with 7+ years of experience in cloud data platforms, security, cost optimization, and performance tuning. Expertise across AWS‐based Snowflake deployments, role‐based access control, and operational automation

Key Responsibilities

• Administered and supported enterprise Snowflake environments across development, QA, and production
• Designed and enforced RBAC security models, reducing unauthorized data access risks
• Configure and maintain Talend Administration Center (TAC) / Management Console
• Optimized warehouse configurations and auto suspend policies, achieving 30–40% cost reduction
• Monitored query performance and identified long running or inefficient queries using QUERY_HISTORY
• Implemented Streams and Tasks for incremental data processing
• Configured and maintained Snowpipe for near ‐real ‐time data ingestion
• Supported data engineers and analysts with issue resolution and performance troubleshooting
• Managed data sharing with internal and external consumers securely
• Support backup, recovery, and DR strategies
• Proven ability to manage enterprise scale Snowflake environments, enforce governance, optimize compute/storage usage, and support analytics and data engineering teams.
• Reduced infrastructure provisioning time from weeks to hours through automation and best practices

Required Skills

• Snowflake, Medallion architecture, Data platforms, ETL / ELT, Talend or similar tools
• Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Query history, load errors, resource usage
• ETL & Data Integration: Snowpipe, COPY, Streams & Tasks
• Automation: SQL scripting, task scheduling
• Compliance: Data access auditing, best practices enforcement
• Strong leadership, team management, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Leadership experience managing teams or complex projects.

• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
• Ability to influence architecture decisions and drive platform strategy.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, mission critical environments.