Snowflake Platform Lead | Data & AI Cloud Architect

Zelis; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

Zelis, headquartered in the United States, is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator to own the Snowflake platform underpinning the Zelis Data & AI Cloud. This role ensures security, governance, performance, and cost efficiency across data fabrics, dashboards, and AI workloads.

You will manage accounts, implement data protection, tune warehouses, automate deployments with schema change tools, and partner with engineering teams to scale a compliant, AI-ready data platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data platform / data engineering roles with 5+ years Snowflake admin in production.
• Deep RBAC / security design and data-governance experience.
• Strong warehouse tuning, performance, and cost-optimization skills.
• Infrastructure-as-code, scripting, and CI/CD for Snowflake (Terraform, Bash/Python, schemachange, dbt, GitHub).
• Advanced SQL and strong data warehousing fundamentals.
• Experience running Snowflake on AWS (S3, storage integrations).

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.
• Governance & data protection — implement network policies, masking, access policies, tokenization, encryption; use Snowflake Horizon for governance and monitoring; support HIPAA compliance.
• Warehouse, compute & FinOps — size, tune, and optimize virtual warehouses; manage resource monitors; drive cost management with chargeback/showback.
• Environment management & resilience — own dev/test/prod environments; manage Snowflake Data Sharing, external stages on AWS S3, and Time Travel / Fail-safe; plan backup strategies.
• Performance, reliability & troubleshooting — tune queries, isolate workloads, plan capacity; diagnose and resolve issues; collaborate with Data Operations.
• Platform automation & CI/CD — manage Snowflake objects as code; build automation with Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks; support deployment pipelines.
• Documentation & runbooks — maintain platform docs and architectural diagrams.
• Standards & architecture partnership — define platform standards; enable teams to build safely; collaborate with Data Platforms & Tooling.
• Technical oversight — provide guidance to distributed/offshore Snowflake admins.

Skills

Snowflake administration

RBAC / security design

Warehouse tuning and cost optimization

Infrastructure-as-code / CI/CD forSnow

Advanced SQL (Python) / data warehous

AWS Snowflake / S3 storage

Education

SnowPro Core certification (preferred)

HIPAA/PHI data handling knowledge (preferred)

Tools

Terraform

dbt

GitHub

Schemacange

Python/Bash scripting

Snowpipe / Streams / Tasks

Job description

Zelis, headquartered in the United States, is seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator to own the Snowflake platform underpinning the Zelis Data & AI Cloud. This role ensures security, governance, performance, and cost efficiency across data fabrics, dashboards, and AI workloads.

You will manage accounts, implement data protection, tune warehouses, automate deployments with schema change tools, and partner with engineering teams to scale a compliant, AI-ready data platform.