Hybrid Snowflake Administrator — Scale Data Solutions

Cognizant; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Snowflake Administrator to manage enterprise-scale Snowflake environments, ensuring security, scalability, and high performance. You will collaborate with data engineers, architects, developers, and business stakeholders to support analytics, reporting, and operations.

This hybrid role requires 8+ years in data warehousing and 4+ years Snowflake administration, with strong SQL/PLSQL and cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure/GCP). Hartford, CT office attendance is expected.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Data Warehousing, Database Administration, or Data Platform Support.
• 4+ years of hands-on Snowflake Administration experience in enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in Snowflake administration, including security, RBAC, virtual warehouses, resource monitors, streams, tasks, cloning, replication, and data sharing.
• Advanced SQL and PL/SQL programming skills with experience supporting large-scale data workloads.
• Experience with ETL/ELT technologies and enterprise scheduling/orchestration platforms.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Snowflake environments, ensuring security, availability, scalability, and optimal platform performance.
• Monitor and optimize Snowflake workloads, virtual warehouses, storage, and query performance to improve efficiency and control costs.
• Support data warehousing and ETL/ELT initiatives by enabling reliable data integration, transformation, and processing across multiple source systems.
• Implement and manage security controls, including user access, roles, privileges, network policies, and governance standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot production issues, support platform enhancements, and implement new Snowflake capabilities.

Skills

Snowflake Admin

Advanced SQL

ETL/ELT

Cloud platforms

Security & RBAC

Performance tuning

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Snowflake Administrator to manage enterprise-scale Snowflake environments, ensuring security, scalability, and high performance. You will collaborate with data engineers, architects, developers, and business stakeholders to support analytics, reporting, and operations.

This hybrid role requires 8+ years in data warehousing and 4+ years Snowflake administration, with strong SQL/PLSQL and cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure/GCP). Hartford, CT office attendance is expected.