Senior Snowflake Administrator – Financial Services

Introduction:

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.

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

Requirements:

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