Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer (Remote)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement 401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

Empower is seeking a Sr. Cloud Database Administrator to design, secure, optimize, and maintain the Snowflake platform within AWS. You will partner with Data Engineering, Analytics, DevOps, and Security teams to deliver a scalable cloud data platform with automation and runbooks.

The role emphasizes platform governance, performance optimization, and collaboration across cross-functional teams to ensure reliable, secure data services for analytics and AI workloads.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of database administration experience.
• 3+ years administering enterprise Snowflake environments.
• Strong Snowflake architecture, warehouses, storage, compute optimization.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain the Snowflake platform (databases, schemas, warehouses, roles, users).
• Design scalable Snowflake architectures for analytics, data engineering, AI/ML workloads.
• Develop RBAC, masking policies, network policies, and data governance standards.

Skills

Snowflake administration

AWS cloud environments

Security and governance

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

SQL skills

Git-based source control

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Snowflake

dbt

Apache Airflow

Job description

Empower is seeking a Sr. Cloud Database Administrator to design, secure, optimize, and maintain the Snowflake platform within AWS. You will partner with Data Engineering, Analytics, DevOps, and Security teams to deliver a scalable cloud data platform with automation and runbooks.

The role emphasizes platform governance, performance optimization, and collaboration across cross-functional teams to ensure reliable, secure data services for analytics and AI workloads.