Snowflake Administration Technical Lead

Quantum Technologies LLC; Austin (TX); Vor Ort; USD 97.000 - 138.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Quantum Technologies. LLC is seeking a Snowflake Administration Technical Lead to own the enterprise Snowflake platform across development, test and production environments in Austin, TX.

The role requires strong hands-on Snowflake expertise, security controls, and cost governance. You will lead incident resolution, drive platform hardening, and collaborate with data engineering and cloud teams to ensure scalable, secure services.

Qualifikationen

• Strong hands-on experience administering enterprise Snowflake environments across development test and production accounts.
• Expertise in Snowflake account setup and administration including roles and RBAC, users, warehouses, databases, schemas, objects, network policies, and monitors.
• Knowledge of Snowflake security controls: SSO, SAML, OAuth, SCIM provisioning, MFA, masking policies, row access policies, secure views, least privilege.
• Experience with performance tuning and workload optimization using query profiles, history, sizing, multi-cluster warehouses, caching, and SQL tuning.
• Snowflake FinOps and cost optimization: credits, governance, autosuspend/resume, chargeback/showback, anomaly handling.
• Operational monitoring, incident management, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, SLAs-driven production support.
• Snowflake data loading and integration: stages, file formats, COPY, Snowpipe, streams, tasks, dynamic tables, secure data sharing.
• Backup and recovery: Time Travel, Failsafe, zero-copy cloning, replication, failover groups, BC/DR planning.
• Snowflake upgrades, release impact, platform hardening, vulnerability remediation, audit/compliance support.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Azure or AWS, and integration with cloud storage, identity, networking, secrets management, monitoring.
• Ability to lead the Snowflake administration function, coordinate onshore/offshore support, review changes, enforce standards, primary contact for issues.

Aufgaben

• Own day-to-day Snowflake platform administration, availability, security, performance, cost governance, compliance and production support.
• Lead incident resolution, root-cause analysis, problem management, change implementation, upgrades, patching and disaster-recovery exercises.
• Partner with data engineering, application cybersecurity, cloud, network and vendor teams to deliver stable and secure platform services.
• Drive automation of access requests, monitoring, operational checks, housekeeping, deployment and recurring support processes.
• Provide technical leadership to offshore administration team, review work quality, maintain runbooks and ensure adherence to SLAs and enterprise standards.

Kenntnisse

Snowflake Administration

Informatica Administration

Azure/AWS cloud integration

Tools

Informatica PowerCenter

Informatica IDM/CI/ICS

Jobbeschreibung

US Citizen, Green Card, H-1B, OPT-EAD, CPT, Other

Job Title: Snowflake Administration Technical Lead

Location: Austin, TX

Duration: 12 Months + Extension

Bill Rate: $85/hour (C2C)

Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job Description:

Technical Skills Primary Snowflake Administration

Strong handson experience administering enterprise Snowflake environments across development test and production accounts

Expertise in Snowflake account setup and administration including roles and RBAC users warehouses databases schemas objects network policies resource monitors and account parameters

Strong knowledge of Snowflake security controls including SSOSAML OAuth SCIM provisioning MFA keypair authentication masking policies row access policies secure views and leastprivilege access

Experience with performance tuning and workload optimization using query profiles query history warehouse sizing and scaling multicluster warehouses clustering search optimization caching and effective SQL tuning

Proven experience in Snowflake FinOps and cost optimization including creditconsumption analysis warehouse governance autosuspendautoresume resource monitoring storage optimization chargebackshowback and cost anomaly handling

Handson experience with operational monitoring incident management rootcause analysis capacity planning platform health checks and SLAdriven production support

Experience managing Snowflake data loading and integration capabilities including stages file formats COPY commands Snowpipe streams tasks dynamic tables and secure data sharing

Strong understanding of backup and recovery capabilities including Time Travel Failsafe zerocopy cloning replication failover groups and business continuitydisaster recovery planning

Experience in Snowflake upgrades and feature enablement releaseimpact assessment platform hardening vulnerability remediation and auditcompliance support

Experience with cloud platforms preferably Microsoft Azure or AWS and integration with cloud storage identity networking secrets management and monitoring services

Ability to lead the Snowflake administration function coordinate onshoreoffshore support review technical changes enforce standards and act as the primary point of contact for businesscritical issues

Technical Skills Secondary Informatica Administration

Handson experience administering Informatica PowerCenter andor Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud IDMCIICS environments

Experience with Informatica domain repository integration services nodes grids Secure Agents runtime environments connections schedules users roles and licenses

Experience monitoring workflows jobs services and Secure Agents troubleshooting failures connectivity issues resource bottlenecks and platform availability incidents

Experience working with application ETL database infrastructure network and vendor teams to resolve crossplatform production issues

Technical Skills Additional Nice to Have

Experience with ServiceNow ITILbased incidentchangeproblem management Git CICD pipelines and infrastructure or configuration automation

Exposure to Snowflake Cortex Snowpark Native Apps Marketplace Horizon Catalog and modern data governanceobservability capabilities

Knowledge of Tableau Cognos Power BI Oracle or other enterprise data and reporting platforms

Experience in the Insurance or Financial Services domain and in regulated enterprise environments

Key Responsibilities

Own daytoday Snowflake platform administration availability security performance cost governance compliance and productionsupport activities

Lead incident resolution rootcause analysis problem management change implementation upgrades patching and disasterrecovery exercises

Partner with data engineering application cybersecurity cloud network and vendor teams to deliver stable and secure platform services

Drive automation of access requests monitoring operational checks housekeeping deployment and recurring support processes

Provide technical leadership to the offshore administration team review work quality maintain runbooks and ensure adherence to SLAs and enterprise standards

We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.