Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Empower is a financial services company focused on helping customers achieve financial freedom. The Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator will design, secure, optimize, automate, and maintain the enterprise Snowflake platform in AWS cloud environments while partnering with data, engineering, security, and governance teams.
Responsibilities
- Administer and maintain the Snowflake platform, including databases, schemas, warehouses, roles, users, resource monitors, and data-sharing capabilities
- Design and implement scalable Snowflake architectures to support enterprise analytics, data engineering, and AI/ML workloads
- Develop and maintain Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), row-level security, masking policies, network policies, and data governance standards
- Optimize warehouse sizing, query performance, clustering strategies, storage utilization, and overall 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 Snowflake Time Travel, Fail-safe, replication, and cross-region replication features
- Automate Snowflake deployments using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar technologies
- 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 monitoring 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 to simplify 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, recommending opportunities for platform improvements
- Document platform architecture, administration procedures, standards, and operational runbooks
Skills
- ***Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT.***
- * Minimum of **8 years of database administration experience**, including **3+ 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
- * 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
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
- Fluid career paths and internal mobility
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
- Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
- Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
- Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
- Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across the business and communities
- Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program
- Remote - Nationwide
- Other necessary computer equipment will be provided
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