Lead Snowflake Platform Administrator

Machine Learning Technologies, LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 97,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Machine Learning Technologies, LLC seeks an experienced Snowflake Administration Technical Lead in Austin, TX, for a 12-month plus extension engagement. The role requires hands-on Snowflake platform management, security, performance tuning, FinOps, and cross-team collaboration to ensure enterprise-grade data services.

The candidate will lead onshore/offshore teams, drive automation, and coordinate incident response while aligning with governance and compliance requirements.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering enterprise Snowflake environments across development, test and production accounts.
• Expertise in Snowflake account setup and administration including roles, RBAC, users, warehouses, databases, schemas, objects, network policies and account parameters.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake security controls including SSO/SAML, OAuth, SCIM provisioning, MFA, masking policies, row access policies, secure views and least-privilege access.
• Experience with performance tuning and workload optimization using query profiles, query history, warehouse sizing and scaling, multi-cluster warehouses, clustering, caching and SQL tuning.
• Proven Snowflake FinOps and cost optimization including credit consumption analysis, governance, autosuspend/autoresume, resource monitoring, storage optimization and chargeback/showback.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day Snowflake platform administration, availability, security, performance, cost governance, and production support.
• Lead incident resolution, root-cause analysis, problem management, change implementation, upgrades, patching, and disaster-recovery exercises.
• Partner with data engineering, application cybersecurity, cloud, network and vendor teams to deliver stable and secure platform services.
• Drive automation of access requests, monitoring operational checks, housekeeping, deployment and recurring support processes.
• Provide technical leadership to the offshore administration team, review work quality, maintain runbooks and ensure adherence to SLAs and enterprise standards.

Skills

Snowflake Administration

Informatica Administration

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Tools

Informatica PowerCenter

Informatica IDM/ICS

Job description

Machine Learning Technologies, LLC seeks an experienced Snowflake Administration Technical Lead in Austin, TX, for a 12-month plus extension engagement. The role requires hands-on Snowflake platform management, security, performance tuning, FinOps, and cross-team collaboration to ensure enterprise-grade data services.

The candidate will lead onshore/offshore teams, drive automation, and coordinate incident response while aligning with governance and compliance requirements.