Application & Data Platform Specialist

THE PANTHER GROUP; Quincy (MA); Hybrid; USD 51,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

The Panther Group in Quincy, MA seeks an Application & Data Platform Specialist to support enterprise applications, data platforms, and reporting environments with a focus on Snowflake and Tableau administration. This hybrid role collaborates with architecture, development, database, infrastructure, security teams and business stakeholders to design, implement, and support scalable solutions.

The position emphasizes hands-on platform administration, application support, and technical analysis

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional IT experience in application development, systems analysis, database administration, platform administration, or production support.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into technical specifications, designs, and implementation plans.
• Develop and maintain technical designs, documentation, diagrams, and implementation artifacts.
• Administer and support Snowflake and Tableau environments for availability, security, performance and reliability.
• Support production deployments, incident resolution, and optimization.

Skills

Analytical skills

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/related field

Tools

Snowflake Administration

Tableau Administration

SQL

UNIX/Linux

AWS

Java

Shell scripting

Job description

Application & Data Platform Specialist We are hiring an Application & Data Platform Specialist to support enterprise applications, data platforms, and reporting environments. This role will have a strong focus on Snowflake and Tableau administration, while also providing technical support for enterprise applications, databases, integrations, infrastructure, and production environments. This is a hybrid position in the Quincy, MA, area. Candidates must be able to reliably commute to this location. Please note: No C2C, Subcontracting or Visa Sponsorship of any kind is available for this position. The Application & Data Platform Specialist will work closely with application and solutions architecture teams, developers, database administrators, infrastructure teams, security teams, and business stakeholders. The position combines hands-on platform administration with application support, technical analysis, troubleshooting, development support, and solution implementation.

What You’ll Do

Application Architecture & Technical Support

Support application and solutions architecture teams in evaluating, designing, documenting, and implementing application solutions and enhancements. Translate business requirements into technical specifications, designs, and implementation plans. Provide technical analysis and recommendations related to application architecture, databases, interfaces, middleware, infrastructure, and integrations. Develop and maintain technical designs, application documentation, diagrams, and implementation artifacts. Participate in technical reviews of application changes, database scripts, interfaces, and production releases. Support application modernization and enhancement initiatives. Serve as a technical resource to development, QA, infrastructure, operations, and business teams.

Application & Production Support

Develop and maintain a strong understanding of application components, databases, interfaces, middleware, operating systems, and supporting infrastructure. Support production and non-production application environments in collaboration with technical teams. Coordinate and support application installations, configurations, deployments, upgrades, and production releases. Troubleshoot complex application, database, interface, infrastructure, and batch-processing issues. Perform or support application database administration and UNIX/Linux administration activities. Maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, and application knowledge-base information. Support production operations and participate in on-call activities as required.

Snowflake & Tableau Administration

Administer and support enterprise Snowflake and Tableau environments, ensuring availability, security, performance, and reliability. Manage Snowflake databases, schemas, warehouses, users, roles, permissions, and platform configurations. Monitor Snowflake workloads, queries, storage, and compute utilization. Assist with Snowflake performance and cost optimization. Administer Tableau Server and/or Tableau Cloud, including users, groups, permissions, projects, data sources, dashboards, workbooks, extracts, schedules, and subscriptions. Monitor Tableau platform performance, extract refreshes, scheduled processes, and system utilization. Troubleshoot Snowflake and Tableau operational issues. Manage platform access controls in accordance with security and data-governance standards. Support Tableau connectivity to Snowflake and other enterprise data sources. Support platform upgrades, integrations, configuration changes, capacity planning, and lifecycle management. Maintain administration standards, operating procedures, and technical documentation for both platforms.

Data, Reporting & Development Support

Develop and support enterprise reports, queries, scripts, and data solutions. Support data reconciliation, database corrections, data archiving, query tuning, and performance optimization. Work with analysts and business stakeholders to translate reporting and data requirements into technical solutions. Support development and testing of application enhancements and technical fixes. Review database and production scripts for technical accuracy and operational readiness. Ensure batch processes and scheduled jobs are appropriately documented, monitored, and designed to operate efficiently with minimal manual intervention.

Collaboration & Customer Support

Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, database, data, architecture, and business teams. Proactively investigate and resolve application and customer issues, coordinating resolution across technical teams. Communicate task, project, and issue status clearly to management and stakeholders. Maintain current technical knowledge and share information and best practices with team members.

Required Skills & Experience

Experience with several of the following is preferred: Snowflake administration and performance optimization Tableau Server and/or Tableau Cloud administration Oracle, SQL Server, SQL, and PL/SQL Java and enterprise application development UNIX/Linux and shell scripting AWS and cloud environments Application interfaces and system integrations Database administration and query tuning Enterprise reporting and analytics XML/XSLT and service-oriented architecture HIPAA/HL7 environments Production application and batch-processing support

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience. 5+ years of professional IT experience in application development, systems analysis, database administration, platform administration, or production support. Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills. Ability to manage multiple technical assignments and work independently while collaborating with senior technical resources. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Strong customer-service and stakeholder-management skills.

Pay up to $61 / hour W2 #INDIT