Remote Senior Snowflake Platform Architect

Empower LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision and life

401(k) with generous match

Tuition reimbursement

Ample PTO and holidays

Volunteer time

Job summary

Empower LLC is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator to design, secure, and optimize the enterprise Snowflake platform within AWS cloud environments. You will administer Snowflake databases, schemas, warehouses, and data sharing while implementing RBAC, masking, and data governance standards.

You will collaborate with Data Engineering, Analytics, DevOps, and Security teams to enable scalable analytics, AI/ML workloads and efficient cost management.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of database administration experience.
• 3+ years administering enterprise Snowflake environments.
• Hands-on Snowflake security: RBAC, masking, row access policies, network policies.
• Experience with AWS cloud environments and data warehousing concepts.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Snowflake platform, including databases, schemas, warehouses, roles, users, and data sharing.
• Design scalable Snowflake architectures to support analytics, data engineering, and AI/ML workloads.
• Develop and maintain RBAC, masking, and data governance standards.
• Optimize warehouse sizing, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Automate Snowflake deployments using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor platform health, security events, and resource usage.
• Mentor junior DBAs and data engineers on Snowflake administration.

Skills

Snowflake administration

RBAC & data security

AWS cloud

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Python

SQL

Data governance

Performance optimization

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Empower LLC is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator to design, secure, and optimize the enterprise Snowflake platform within AWS cloud environments. You will administer Snowflake databases, schemas, warehouses, and data sharing while implementing RBAC, masking, and data governance standards.

You will collaborate with Data Engineering, Analytics, DevOps, and Security teams to enable scalable analytics, AI/ML workloads and efficient cost management.