Snowflake Administrator - DataOps

Tiger Analytics Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tiger Analytics Inc. is seeking a Senior Snowflake Administrator - DataOps with deep expertise in Snowflake administration and DataOps within enterprise environments. You will manage security, provisioning, tuning, and automation to ensure reliable data platforms supporting large-scale workloads.

The role focuses on building CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake objects, optimizing resource usage, and supporting production data pipelines with strong Python/SQL scripting skills.

Qualifications

• 12–15 years of IT experience with enterprise data platforms.
• Hands-on Snowflake administration and platform support.
• Experience with DataOps and DevOps in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake RBAC, security, and access controls.
• Ability to develop CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake objects and deployments.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support Snowflake environments including accounts, databases, schemas, warehouses, roles, users, and access controls.
• Manage Snowflake security and access, including RBAC and authentication.
• Monitor and optimize Snowflake performance, warehouses, queries, and credits.
• Support Snowflake upgrades, configurations, maintenance, and production releases.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake objects and deployments.
• Automate administrative activities using Python, SQL, or Shell scripting.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for Snowflake environments.
• Support data ingestion and integration processes across enterprise data pipelines.

Skills

CI/CD for Snowflake

DataOps practices

DevOps collaboration

Performance tuning

RBAC/security

Cloud data warehousing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related

Tools

Snowflake

Python

SQL

Shell scripting

Job description

Tiger Analytics is a global leader in AI and advanced analytics consulting, empowering Fortune 1000 companies to solve their toughest business challenges. We are on a mission to push the boundaries of what AI can do, providing data-driven certainty for a better tomorrow. Our diverse team of over 6,000 technologists and consultants operates across five continents, building cutting-edge ML and data solutions at scale. Join us to do great work and shape the future of enterprise AI.

Tiger Analytics looking for a Snowflake Administrator - DataOps with 12–15 years of overall IT experience and strong hands‑on experience supporting Snowflake administration, DataOps, and DevOps in enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing and supporting the Snowflake platform, ensuring its availability, security, performance, scalability, and operational stability, while also supporting automation, deployment, monitoring, and DataOps processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise Snowflake environments, including accounts, databases, schemas, warehouses, roles, users, and access controls.

• Manage Snowflake security and access, including RBAC, role hierarchy, user provisioning, authentication, and data access policies.

• Monitor and optimize Snowflake performance and resource utilization, including virtual warehouses, queries, workloads, and credit consumption.

• Support Snowflake upgrades, configuration changes, maintenance, and production releases.

• Troubleshoot and resolve Snowflake platform, connectivity, performance, and data pipeline issues.

• Support DataOps and DevOps processes for Snowflake-based data platforms.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake database objects, code, configurations, and deployments.

• Automate administrative and operational activities using Python, SQL, Shell scripting, or similar technologies.

• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational dashboards for Snowflake environments.

• Support data ingestion and integration processes and troubleshoot failures across enterprise data pipelines.

• 12–15 years of overall IT experience with strong experience in enterprise data platforms.

• Extensive hands‑on experience in Snowflake administration and platform support.

• Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture and cloud data warehousing.

• Experience with Snowflake RBAC, security, user/role management, and access controls.

• Strong knowledge of Snowflake warehouses, databases, schemas, stages, file formats, streams, tasks, and Snowpipe.

• Experience with Snowflake performance monitoring and optimization.

• Experience supporting production Snowflake environments and resolving critical operational issues.

• Hands‑hand?

Significant career development opportunities exist as the company grows. The position offers a unique opportunity to be part of a small, fast-growing, challenging and entrepreneurial environment, with a high degree of individual responsibility.

Tiger Analytics provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.