Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers through technology-driven solutions. The Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator will own the Snowflake platform supporting Zelis’s data and AI workloads, ensuring security, governance, performance, resilience, and cost efficiency. The role also covers platform automation, troubleshooting, documentation, architecture partnership, and technical oversight of administration resources.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Please note at this time we are unable to proceed with candidates who require visa sponsorship now or in the future
- 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
- While location expectations vary by role, candidates within approximately 50 miles of a U.S. office are generally preferred to support collaboration when needed
Benefits
- 401k plan with employer match
- Flexible paid time off
- Holidays
- Parental leaves
- Life and disability insurance
- Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible hybrid work arrangement with in-office presence guided by team and business needs
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