Senior Snowflake Platform Lead for AI Cloud

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

Benefits offered by this job

401k with employer match

Health benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience with a Snowflake-powered Data & AI Cloud. The Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator owns and secures the Snowflake foundation that underpins our D&A workloads, ensuring governance, performance, and cost-efficiency across development, testing, and production environments.

As we move to an AI-native model, you will manage security, data protection, and platform automation, partnering with Data Operations and offshore resources to deliver

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 administration

RBAC security design

Warehousetuning

Infrastructure as code

Scripting (Bash/Python)

Terraform

dbt

GitHub

SQL proficiency

Tools

Snowflake

Terraform

dbt

GitHub

Job description

Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience with a Snowflake-powered Data & AI Cloud. The Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator owns and secures the Snowflake foundation that underpins our D&A workloads, ensuring governance, performance, and cost-efficiency across development, testing, and production environments.

As we move to an AI-native model, you will manage security, data protection, and platform automation, partnering with Data Operations and offshore resources to deliver