Senior Snowflake Platform Architect

LE018 Zelis Healthcare, LLC; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with employer match

Flexible PTO

Holiday & parental leaves

Job summary

Zelis is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator to own the Snowflake foundation that underpins the Zelis Data & AI Cloud. You will secure, govern, and optimize Snowflake environments across development, testing, and production, focusing on IAM, network policies, and cost controls.

The role is hybrid with US offices. You will implement CI/CD pipelines and IaC, enable data sharing, support HIPAA governance, and collaborate with Data Operations to troubleshoot performance and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data platform / data engineering roles, including 5+ years hands-on Snowflake administration in production.
• Deep RBAC / security design and data-governance experience (masking, access policies).
• Strong warehouse tuning, performance, and cost-optimization skills.
• Infrastructure-as-code, scripting, and CI/CD for Snowflake (Terraform, Bash/Python, schemachange, dbt, GitHub, or equivalent).
• Advanced SQL (Python preferred) and strong data-warehousing / dimensional-modeling fundamentals.
• Experience running Snowflake on AWS (S3 external stages, storage integrations) and familiarity with core AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Account & security administration — manage Snowflake accounts, databases, schemas, warehouses, users, roles, and resource monitors; design and maintain a clean RBAC model and least-privilege access; integrate identity via SSO / SCIM (Okta / Entra ID).
• Governance & data protection — implement and maintain network policies, tag-based masking, row-/column-level access policies, tokenization, and encryption; leverage Snowflake Horizon for governance and monitoring; own PHI/DLP guardrails and support audit and compliance (HIPAA).
• Warehouse, compute & FinOps — size, tune, and optimize virtual warehouses (auto-suspend/resume, query tagging); manage resource monitors; drive cost management with chargeback/showback and unit-economics KPIs.
• Environment management & resilience — own dev/test/prod environments and cloning; design and operate Snowflake Data Sharing, external stages on AWS S3, Apache Iceberg tables, replication, Time Travel / Fail-safe, disaster-recovery / failover, and backup strategies.
• Performance, reliability & troubleshooting — query performance tuning, workload isolation, and capacity planning; diagnose and resolve Snowflake performance, pipeline, and access issues; partner with Data Operations on run-state issues.
• Platform automation & CI/CD — manage Snowflake objects as code (schemachange / dbt / Terraform); build automation with Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, and Dynamic Tables; support deployment pipelines and release discipline.
• Documentation & runbooks — maintain platform documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.
• Standards, enablement & architecture partnership — document platform standards and guardrails; enable engineering and business-unit teams to build safely on the platform; partner with Data Platforms & Tooling on Snowflake architecture and solution design.
• Technical oversight — provide guidance and technical oversight to distributed / offshore Snowflake administration resources.

Skills

Snowflake

RBAC security

Cost optimization

Terraform/dbt

CI/CD

AWS

SQL

Data governance

Tools

Terraform

dbt

GitHub

Snowflake

Job description

Zelis is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator to own the Snowflake foundation that underpins the Zelis Data & AI Cloud. You will secure, govern, and optimize Snowflake environments across development, testing, and production, focusing on IAM, network policies, and cost controls.

The role is hybrid with US offices. You will implement CI/CD pipelines and IaC, enable data sharing, support HIPAA governance, and collaborate with Data Operations to troubleshoot performance and