Senior Snowflake Platform Lead – Data & AI Cloud

Zelis Healthcare, LLC; Morristown (NJ); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 177,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with employer match

Non-traditional PTO

Health benefits

Job summary

Zelis is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator to own and secure the Snowflake foundation powering Zelis Data & AI Cloud. You will govern accounts, enforce RBAC, and optimize warehouses while driving cost efficiency and reliability in a hybrid, US-based environment.

The role emphasizes IAM, data governance, and platform automation with Terraform, dbt, and Snowflake features to support AI workloads and governance needs.

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.

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.

Job description

Zelis is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator to own and secure the Snowflake foundation powering Zelis Data & AI Cloud. You will govern accounts, enforce RBAC, and optimize warehouses while driving cost efficiency and reliability in a hybrid, US-based environment.

The role emphasizes IAM, data governance, and platform automation with Terraform, dbt, and Snowflake features to support AI workloads and governance needs.