Senior Administrator - Snowflake & SQL

2000 Montefiore Health System, Inc.; City of Yonkers (NY); On-site; USD 144,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Montefiore Health System, Inc. in Yonkers, NY is seeking an experienced Snowflake Database Administrator to manage and optimize our enterprise Snowflake platforms and AI-ready data lakehouse.

The role emphasizes high availability, security, performance tuning, and cost management across Snowflake on AWS, enabling scalable analytics for healthcare operations. You will collaborate with data engineering, security, and AI teams to ensure reliable data delivery, governance, and prompt insights that

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in database administration or data platform operations.
• 4+ years of hands-on Snowflake administration experience in enterprise environments.
• Proven experience managing production-grade, highly available data platforms.
• Experience designing and implementing DR and business continuity strategies.
• Solid experience administering Microsoft SQL Server.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Experience with security, compliance, and data governance best practices.
• Snowflake Advanced Administration Certification.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Responsibilities

• Snowflake Platform Administration for multi-account, multi-region environments.
• Manage virtual warehouses, resource monitors, roles, and access controls.
• Ensure 24/7 operational readiness and platform stability.
• Monitor performance, storage, compute usage, and cost.
• Work with AWS cloud foundations and data engineering teams to meet SLAs.
• Support data ingestion pipelines and Epic Cogito stack integration.
• Operate RBAC and access policies; ensure security and governance.
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to support Cortex AI capabilities.

Skills

Snowflake administration

SQL & performance tuning

AWS

Security & governance

Disaster recovery planning

Microsoft SQL Server

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Snowflake Advanced Administration Certification

Tools

Snowflake

Microsoft SQL Server

AWS

Job description

City/State: Yonkers, New York | Grant Funded: No | Department: D&A - Data & Analytics | Work Shift: Day | Work Days: Mon-Fri | Scheduled Hours: 8:30 AM-5 PM | Scheduled Daily Hours: 7.5 HOURS | Pay Range: $144,000.00-$180,000.00

Montefiore is ranked among the top hospitals nationally and regionally by U.S. News & World Report. For more than 100 years we have been innovating new treatments, procedures, and approaches to patient care, producing stellar outcomes and raising the bar for academic medical centers in the region and around the world. Our work to improve health outcomes in underserved communities is unparalleled in the United States. Our workforce is among the most diverse in the US: Montefiore associates speak 60+ languages. As Montefiore has built paths to deliver lifesaving health outcomes to underserved communities, we are looking to the future of being a data driven organization and tech-enabled care delivery to create better experiences for patients, providers, and operations teams. Montefiore is actively investing in its data & analytics driven solutions as a new system-level priority, and we are seeking data experts who are excited to create a tangible impact with the healthcare system.

We are seeking an experienced Snowflake Database Administrator (DBA) with strong expertise in Snowflake to manage, optimize, and support our enterprise data platforms. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring high availability, performance, security, and scalability of the Snowflake and AWS based SQL Server data platforms, with a strong focus on Snowflake advanced administration. This role will be responsible for administrating Montefiore’s AI‑ready data Lakehouse in Snowflake that houses complex data solutions supporting Montefiore’s business functions. This role is also critical to scaling our data and insights capabilities, empowering teams with actionable insights, and supporting our mission to improve Patient healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Snowflake Platform Administration
  • Administer and manage Snowflake enterprise environments (multi-account, multiregion).
  • Configure and manage virtual warehouses, resource monitors, roles, users, and access controls.
  • Perform environment provisioning, cloning, replication, and lifecycle management.
  • Monitor upgrades, feature enablement, and account-level configurations.
• Operational Excellence & Reliability
  • Ensure 24/7 operational readiness and platform stability.
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for performance, storage, and compute usage.
  • Establish operational runbooks, SOPs, and incident response processes.
  • Partner with Montefiore AWS cloud foundations team and data engineering teams to ensure platform SLAs and reliability targets are met.
  • Support root cause analysis and incident resolution for platform-related issues.
  • Define RTO/RPO objectives and ensure compliance with enterprise resiliency standards.
  • Conduct periodic failover testing and recovery drills.
• Security, Performance Optimization & Cost Management
  • Monitor and tune query performance, warehouse sizing, clustering, and data organization.
  • Optimize storage strategies including micro-partitioning and pruning.
  • Drive cost optimization through warehouse right-sizing, auto-suspend/resume strategies, and usage analytics.
  • Provide usage and performance reports as needed
  • Implement and manage role-based access control (RBAC) and fine‑grained access policies.
  • Support audit, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
  • Collaborate with security teams to maintain enterprise data protection standards.
  • Stay current with Snowflake releases and emerging capabilities.
  • Recommend improvements to enhance platform reliability, security, and performance.
• Helix Snowflake Lakehouse Data Integration & Ecosystem Support
  • Support data ingestion pipelines across disparate internal and external data sources primarily Epic Cogito stack.
  • Collaborate with the Helix Data Engineering team to ensure optimal data loading and transformation patterns.
  • Support external tables and integration with AWS cloud storage.
  • Support enablement and operationalization of Snowflake Cortex AI capabilities.
  • Ensure data readiness, governance, and security for AI-driven use cases.
  • Optimize compute resources to support AI workloads.
  • Partner with AI/ML teams to maintain a high‑performance platform for model development and inference.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in database administration or data platform operations
• 4+ years of hands‑on Snowflake administration experience in enterprise environments.
• Proven experience managing production‑grade, highly available data platforms.
• Experience designing and implementing DR and business continuity strategies.
• Solid experience administering Microsoft SQL Server.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Experience with security, compliance, and data governance best practices.
• Experience with AWS cloud platform is a plus
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced, mission‑critical environment.
• Snowflake Advanced Administration Certification
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in health systems database administration
• Experience in Epic Cogito stack administration
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and DevOps practices.

Competencies

• Ability to think strategically and drive structured execution
• Structured, linear thinker that can conduct business outcome diagnostics and identify highest value business opportunities
• Strong facilitation skills to help business leaders identify their most important business questions
• Exhibits excellent judgment, especially when working with ambiguity.
• Sets stretch goals and works to exceed goals with a focus for results.
• Has the innate ability to gain the confidence of and build strong relationships with executives, peers, management and subordinates alike.
• Excellent business-facing presentation skill

Montefiore Health System, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer. Montefiore Health System, Inc. will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to their race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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