Senior Snowflake Platform Admin — Data & Security Lead

Empower; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision and life_insu

401(k) plan with company matching

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Empower is seeking a Sr. Cloud Database Administrator to own Snowflake platform administration across enterprise analytics, data engineering, and AI/ML workloads.

You will design scalable architectures, implement RBAC, data sharing, and security policies while optimizing cost and performance. In this role you will automate deployments with Terraform and CI/CD, partner with security and governance teams, mentor juniors, and stay current with Snowflake features and cloud technologies to drive

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of database administration experience, including 3+ years administering enterprise Snowflake environments.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, virtual warehouses, storage, compute optimization, and platform administration.
• Hands-on experience implementing Snowflake security, including RBAC, masking policies, row access policies, network policies, and secure data sharing.
• Experience designing and optimizing Snowflake performance, workload management, and cost optimization strategies.
• Experience with Terraform or similar automation tools and Git-based source control and CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake deployments.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain the Snowflake platform across databases and warehouses.
• Design scalable Snowflake architectures to support analytics and AI workloads.
• Develop and maintain RBAC, row-level security, masking policies, and data governance standards.
• Automate deployments using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor platform health and security events with enterprise observability tools.
• Collaborate with Data Engineering teams on dbt, Airflow, and ELT pipelines.

Skills

SQL skills

Python scripting

Analytical skills

Troubleshooting

Communication skills

Tools

Snowflake

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Empower is seeking a Sr. Cloud Database Administrator to own Snowflake platform administration across enterprise analytics, data engineering, and AI/ML workloads.

You will design scalable architectures, implement RBAC, data sharing, and security policies while optimizing cost and performance. In this role you will automate deployments with Terraform and CI/CD, partner with security and governance teams, mentor juniors, and stay current with Snowflake features and cloud technologies to drive