Senior Snowflake Administrator Financial Services (Only W2)

Title Senior Snowflake Administrator Financial Services

Location NYC (3 days onsite)

In-person interview is required.

Job Summary :

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Snowflake Administrator to lead the management, optimization, and security of our cloud data platform supporting core banking, financial reporting, risk management, and regulatory compliance workloads. The successful candidate will possess deep expertise in Snowflake administration within enterprise, regulated environments, and demonstrate a strong grasp of data governance, security, and performance tuning. Exposure to Databricks administration is considered advantageous.

Key Responsibilities :

Snowflake Administration & Operations

• Administer and manage all Snowflake environments (Production, UAT, QA, Development) across large-scale enterprise setups.
• Configure, optimize, and maintain warehouses, databases, schemas, roles, users, and resource monitors.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance, concurrency, and cost metrics.
• Implement and oversee security controls including RBAC, row-level security, column masking, and secure views.
• Manage data sharing, cloning, time travel, and fail-safe features to support operational needs.
• Conduct capacity planning, usage forecasting, and cost management aligned with business priorities.
• Resolve performance bottlenecks, query issues, and system anomalies efficiently.

Financial & Regulatory Compliance

• Support data platforms managing banking, financial reporting, risk analytics, fraud detection, and regulatory reporting.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations such as SOX, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and internal audit standards.
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams during audits, access reviews, and data governance initiatives.
• Maintain high levels of system availability, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity.

Automation & Platform Operations

• Automate routine administrative and operational tasks utilizing SQL, Python, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines.
• Support platform monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
• Oversee platform upgrades, environment migrations, and release management.
• Maintain comprehensive operational documentation, runbooks, and best practice guidelines.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a technical advisor on Snowflake best practices and architecture.
• Mentor and guide junior administrators and platform engineers.
• Engage with data engineers, architects, analysts, and business stakeholders to optimize data platform operations.
• Contribute to architectural reviews and future platform roadmap planning.

Qualifications :

Required

• 5+ years of hands-on Snowflake administration experience in enterprise environments.
• Strong background supporting financial or banking data platforms.
• Advanced SQL proficiency and comprehensive understanding of data warehousing concepts.
• Experience working on Azure cloud platform.
• Deep understanding of security, IAM, encryption, and compliance controls.

Preferred / Good-to-Have

• Experience with Databricks administration(workspaces, clusters, jobs, access controls).
• Familiarity with Databricks Snowflake integrations.
• Relevant Snowflake or Databricks certifications.
• Skills with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Exposure to data governance, metadata management, and lineage tools.