Snowflake Administrator

🕒 6 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $105.7k - $149.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🖥️ Administration

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Empower

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10,000+ employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

Finance • Fintech • B2C

Empower is a leading provider of financial services focused on helping individuals and organizations achieve financial freedom through retirement planning and investment management. Serving over 19 million Americans, Empower offers a comprehensive suite of finance-related services, including smart planning and investment advice, and tools like the Empower Personal Dashboard™ for a complete financial view. The company is renowned as a top retirement plan provider and works closely with personal investors, workplace plan savers, plan sponsors, and financial professionals. Empower is also recognized for initiatives in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and has a social commitment that bolsters community impact.

📋 Description

• Lead the design and implementation of robust and secure Snowflake platforms and pipelines, spanning a wide range of technologies and complexity • Stand up and manage Snowflake accounts/environments (dev/test/prod), databases, schemas, virtual warehouses, and resource monitors; enable auto-suspend/auto-resume and multi-cluster where needed • Implement and operate ingestion and orchestration patterns using Streams/Tasks, Snowpipe/Kafka Connector, and external stages (S3) • Enforce security, compliance, and access governance, including RBAC role hierarchies, tag-based masking, row access policies, network policies, and session parameters (SSO/SCIM with Okta/Entra ID) • Manage Snowflake objects and configurations as code (Terraform Snowflake provider and/or Snowflake CLI) and build Git-based promotion workflows with pre-merge checks (grant diffs, policy linting, contract tests) • Build observability dashboards and alerts for utilization, query performance, task/pipe health, failures, and data freshness/volume anomalies; tune performance and drive SLOs for latency, concurrency, and reliability • Implement cost optimization guardrails including warehouse rightsizing, auto-suspend targets, query tagging, and chargeback/showback with unit-economics KPIs and variance reviews • Operate secure integrations with AWS (S3, IAM/KMS, PrivateLink/VPC endpoints), catalogs (Collibra), and BI tools (Tableau/Qlik/BOBJ) • Provide Level-3 support, lead incident response and postmortems with clear RCAs and fixes, and maintain/validate resiliency strategies and runbooks (including game days) • Work independently on assignments in a GitOps-driven environment, collaborating with development teams to automate processes and increase productivity.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience) • At least 5 years of experience in platform or systems engineering, including designing, building, and operating large-scale applications • 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake administration operating in cloud environments (AWS preferred) • Snowflake expertise across RBAC design, masking and row access policies, object tags, Streams/Tasks, Snowpipe/Kafka Connector, search optimization, materialized views, and replication/failover • Expert understanding of AWS infrastructure components, including EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, VPC, and others • Production experience managing Infrastructure as Code frameworks such as Terraform and CloudFormation • Proficiency with CI/CD tooling (GitHub and/or Azure DevOps), Git-based workflows, SQL, and one scripting language (Python, Go, Bash, or shell) for automation • Strong grasp of Internet and cloud fundamentals (DNS, TLS, routing, SSH, HTTP/S), Linux/Windows administration basics, and IAM/KMS • Expert knowledge in one or more DevOps disciplines such as code, CI, CD, operations, infrastructure, etc. • AWS, Kubernetes, or relevant certifications.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance • Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year • Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans • Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year • Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year • Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) • Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.