Sr. Snowflake Admin with Databricks experience

Job Description:

Experience

·       8–12+ years overall data platform experience

·       5+ years administering Snowflake in enterprise environments

·       Strong experience in Financial Services / Banking domain

Job Summary

·       We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Snowflake Administrator to manage, optimize, and secure our cloud data platform supporting critical financial and banking workloads.

·       The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Snowflake administration and proven experience operating data platforms in regulated financial environments.

·       Exposure to Databricks administration is considered a plus.

Key Responsibilities

Snowflake Administration (Core)

·       Administer and manage Snowflake environments (Production, UAT, QA, Dev) in large-scale enterprise settings

·       Configure and manage warehouses, databases, schemas, roles, users, and resource monitors

·       Monitor and optimize performance, concurrency, and cost usage across Snowflake workloads

·       Implement and maintain data security controls, including RBAC, row-level security, column masking, and secure views

·       Manage data sharing, cloning, time travel, and fail-safe strategies

·       Perform capacity planning, usage forecasting, and cost optimization aligned with business needs

·       Troubleshoot performance issues, query bottlenecks, and system anomalies

Financial Services & Compliance

·       Support data platforms handling banking, financial reporting, risk, fraud, and regulatory workloads

·       Ensure adherence to financial regulations such as SOX, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and internal audit controls

·       Partner with security and compliance teams on audits, access reviews, and data governance initiatives

·       Maintain high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity standards

Automation & Operations

·       Automate administrative tasks using SQL, Python, Terraform, or CI/CD pipelines

·       Implement monitoring and alerting for platform health and performance

·       Support release management, environment migrations, and platform upgrades

·       Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and best practices

Collaboration & Leadership

·       Act as a technical advisor for Snowflake best practices

·       Mentor junior administrators and platform engineers

·       Collaborate with data engineers, architects, analysts, and business stakeholders

·       Participate in architectural reviews and platform roadmap planning

Required Qualifications

·       5+ years of hands-on Snowflake administration experience

·       Proven experience supporting financial or banking data platforms

·       Strong SQL skills and understanding of data warehousing concepts

·       Experience with cloud platforms (Azure)

·       Solid understanding of security, IAM, encryption, and compliance controls

Good-to-Have Qualifications

·       Experience with Databricks administration (workspaces, clusters, jobs, access controls)

·       Familiarity with Databricks–Snowflake integrations

·       Snowflake or Databricks certifications

·       Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

·       Exposure to data governance, metadata, and lineage tools