Senior Snowflake Administrator

Kontoor Brands, Inc.; India; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Kontoor Brands, Inc. in India is seeking a Senior Snowflake Administrator to manage Snowflake environments, ensuring security, performance, and cost efficiency within our EDW and analytics stack.

You will work with Data Engineering, BI, Security, and Cloud Infra to align with enterprise standards, governance, and business requirements; strong knowledge of Snowflake features, security, disaster recovery, and monitoring is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or related field.
• SnowPro Advanced Administrator certification preferred.
• Strong command of English, written and verbal.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office suite.

Responsibilities

• Manage Snowflake accounts, users and access.
• Optimize performance and manage compute resources.
• Ensure security, privacy and compliance.
• Monitor, alert, and troubleshoot Snowflake environments.
• Oversee cost management and optimization.
• Collaborate with ETL, BI, Security and Cloud Infra teams.
• Manage backup, disaster recovery and readiness.
• Maintain documentation and enablement.

Skills

Snowflake Admin

Performance Tuning

Security Compliance

Cost Management

Disaster Recovery

Education

Bachelor's degree

SnowPro Advanced Administrator (preferred)

Tools

Matillion ETL

HVR

Job description

Senior Snowflake Administrator is responsible for managing, configuring, and maintaining Snowflake environments to ensure they are secure, scalable, performant, and cost-efficient in support of Kontoor’s Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and analytics platforms.

This role focuses on Snowflake platform administration and operations, including account configuration, user and role management, security and compliance, performance optimization, monitoring, cost management, and disaster recovery. The individual will work closely with Data Engineering, BI, Security, and Cloud Infrastructure teams to ensure Snowflake aligns with enterprise architecture standards, governance policies, and business requirements.

Job Description:

• Manage Account, User & Access Management
• Performance Optimization & Resource Management
• Security, Privacy & Compliance
• Monitoring, Alerting & Troubleshooting
• Cost Management & Optimization
• Integration, Automation & Native Snowflake Features
• Manage Backup, Recovery & Disaster Readiness
• Keep Documentation, Reporting & Enablement

Preferred Experience

• Working knowledge of Matillion ETL from a platform support and integration perspective (job orchestration, scheduling dependencies, Snowflake workload impact).
• Experience supporting HVR or similar data replication tools, including understanding of
• CDC patterns
• Source-to-Snowflake replication behavior.
• Impact on Snowflake performance and credit consumption
• Ability to collaborate with ETL teams to troubleshoot pipeline-related performance, concurrency, or cost issues in Snowflake.

EDUCATION AND/OR CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Min Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline, computer science, or other relevant discipline required.
• SnowPro Advanced Administrator certification (preferred).
• Demonstrates strong command of the English language both written and verbal
• Must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, and Power Point. Must have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office software suite.