Fivetran/dbt Platform Administrator

Role: Fivetran & dbt Platform Administrator
Location: Onshore / Nearshore
 

Role Summary

We are looking for a hands-on Fivetran/dbt Platform Administrator responsible for operating, monitoring and maintaining enterprise data ingestion and transformation platforms.

The role will support the reliability of data pipelines from source systems through Fivetran into Snowflake, and transformation workloads managed through dbt.

Key Responsibilities

Fivetran

• Administer and maintain Fivetran environments, connectors and destinations.
• Configure and support source-to-Snowflake ingestion pipelines.
• Monitor connector health, synchronization status and failures.
• Troubleshoot connector, authentication, schema and data synchronization issues.
• Manage users, groups and access permissions.
• Monitor platform consumption and identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
• Coordinate connector configuration changes and new source onboarding.

Dbt

• Administer and support dbt environments and platform configuration.
• Manage user access, environments, jobs and schedules.
• Monitor scheduled dbt jobs and investigate failures.
• Support deployment and CI/CD processes for dbt projects.
• Troubleshoot connectivity and execution issues between dbt and Snowflake.
• Support environment promotion across development, test and production.
• Work with Data Engineers to maintain stable and reliable transformation pipelines.

Operations

• Monitor end-to-end pipeline health across Fivetran → Snowflake → dbt.
• Perform incident troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Maintain operational dashboards, alerts, runbooks and support documentation.
• Participate in production support, change management and release activities.
• Automate repetitive administration and monitoring activities where practical.

Must-Have Skills

• Hands-on experience with Fivetran administration/support.
• Hands-on experience with dbt / dbt Cloud administration or operations.
• Strong SQL knowledge.
• Good understanding of Snowflake.
• Experience troubleshooting ETL/ELT and data pipeline failures.
• Experience managing users, permissions and platform configurations.
• Understanding of Git and CI/CD concepts.
• Production support and incident management experience.

Good-to-Have

• Snowflake administration experience.
• Python or shell scripting.
• APIs and automation.
• Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tooling.
• Data observability experience.