Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $114k - $165.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 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

• Administer and maintain the Snowflake platform, including databases, schemas, warehouses, roles, users, resource monitors, and data-sharing capabilities. • Design and implement scalable Snowflake architectures to support enterprise analytics, data engineering, and AI/ML workloads. • Develop and maintain Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), row-level security, masking policies, network policies, and data governance standards. • Optimize warehouse sizing, query performance, clustering strategies, storage utilization, and overall platform cost efficiency. • Design and implement secure data sharing, external stages, storage integrations, Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, Dynamic Tables, and other native Snowflake capabilities. • Develop backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies using Snowflake Time Travel, Fail-safe, replication, and cross-region replication features. • Automate Snowflake deployments using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Terraform, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar technologies. • Develop and maintain version-controlled SQL objects, including databases, schemas, tables, views, stored procedures, tasks, streams, sequences, and security objects. • Monitor platform health, resource consumption, query performance, and security events using Snowflake monitoring capabilities and enterprise observability tools. • Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to support dbt, Airflow, ELT pipelines, and enterprise data integration initiatives. • Develop Python and SQL automation to simplify administrative tasks, platform provisioning, monitoring, and operational processes. • Partner with Security, Architecture, and Governance teams to implement platform standards, compliance requirements, and operational best practices. • Mentor database administrators and data engineers on Snowflake administration, platform standards, and operational excellence. • Stay current with Snowflake features, cloud technologies, and industry best practices, recommending opportunities for platform improvements. • Document platform architecture, administration procedures, standards, and operational runbooks.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of database administration experience , including 3+ years administering enterprise Snowflake environments. • Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, virtual warehouses, storage, compute optimization, and platform administration. • Hands-on experience implementing Snowflake security, including RBAC, masking policies, row access policies, network policies, and secure data sharing. • Experience designing and optimizing Snowflake performance, workload management, and cost optimization strategies. • Experience with Snowflake native capabilities, including Tasks, Streams, Dynamic Tables, Snowpipe, External Tables, Secure Views, and Stored Procedures. • Experience managing Snowflake across AWS cloud environments. • Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and modern cloud data platforms. • Experience using Git-based source control and CI/CD pipelines for Snowflake object deployments. • Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar automation tools. • Strong SQL skills and experience with Python or Shell scripting for platform automation. • Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills. • Strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional technical teams.

🏖️ 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.