Senior DBA - Snowflake & SQL Server Data Platform Lead

HL002 Hamilton Lane Advisors, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Tuition reimbursement

Volunteer time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Hamilton Lane Advisors, LLC seeks an experienced Database Administrator to join our data platform team. You will own Snowflake and SQL Server environments, optimize queries, manage ELT/ETL processes, and ensure security and resilience across cloud platforms in a fast-paced private markets environment.

We value autonomy, collaboration, and mentoring, supporting cross-team initiatives and platform upgrades with minimal downtime.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Database Administrator with 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake and SQL Server experience.
• Expert knowledge of Snowflake architecture, clustering, data sharing, and security features.
• Strong SQL/T-SQL skills and query optimization experience.
• Understanding of cloud data warehouse design patterns and data governance.
• Experience with backup/recovery, disaster recovery planning, and CI/CD for database changes.
• Familiarity with enterprise job schedulers like Tidal and data pipeline management.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary DBA for Snowflake, SQL Server, and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
• Monitor performance, query efficiency, and resource utilization; optimize slow queries and indexing.
• Manage user access, roles, and security policies.
• Establish backup, DR, high availability, and business continuity procedures.
• Oversee ELT/ETL loading and job scheduling; ensure data quality and integrity.
• Coordinate platform upgrades and apply patches with minimal downtime.
• Document schemas, configurations, standards, and procedures.
• Provide support to developers/analysts; mentor team on best practices.
• Monitor system alerts and incidents; maintain uptime SLAs.
• Partner with Cobalt team to support its data platform needs.

Skills

5+ years DBA experience

Snowflake architecture

T-SQL

Query optimization

Cloud infrastructure

Backup/DR planning

Security/compliance

Tools

Snowflake

SQL Server

Azure SQL Managed Instance

Tidal Scheduler

Job description

Hamilton Lane Advisors, LLC seeks an experienced Database Administrator to join our data platform team. You will own Snowflake and SQL Server environments, optimize queries, manage ELT/ETL processes, and ensure security and resilience across cloud platforms in a fast-paced private markets environment.

We value autonomy, collaboration, and mentoring, supporting cross-team initiatives and platform upgrades with minimal downtime.