Snowflake Administration

About the Role

• Act as Snowflake Platform Admin within client ecosystem
• Own administration, governance, and operational stability of Snowflake platform
• Enable data onboarding via standardized Snowflake integration patterns
• Ensure compliance with RBAC, SSO, security, and audit controls
• Support onboarding teams for connector creation, configuration, and validation
• Close collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure secure, scalable, Snowflake platform architecture
• Prepare and Maintain Snowflake SOLD (Solution Design Documents), Integration templates and Knowledge base articles for access and onboarding

Key Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day administration of Snowflake environments (databases, schemas, warehouses)
• Manage compute warehouses (scaling, performance, cost optimization)
• Ensure platform stability, availability, and operational efficiency
• Handle incident management, troubleshooting, and RCA
• Monitor & troubleshooting data pipelines
• Incident and Change Management
• Manage Snowflake account-level, database-level, schema-level, and object-level roles using RBAC model (roles, role hierarchy, grants)
• Administer Azure AD / SSO group mappings (SCIM/OAuth integration) for automated user provisioning and access control
• Maintain environment/domain-based role and database structure (DEV / QA / PROD segregation, domain schemas)
• Govern access lifecycle (grant/revoke roles & privileges) via ServiceNow/request workflows and ensure compliance documentation updates
• Support Snowflake object lifecycle management (databases, schemas, tables, views, stages, tasks, streams)
• Support data platform onboarding and integration enablement (schema setup, access provisioning, initial environment configuration)
• Manage data access and sharing configurations (secure data sharing, external integrations, role-based access segregation)
• Enforce RBAC policies across account, database, schema, and object levels ensuring domain-based access segregation
• Work with Security teams for Firewall rules, VPN approvals, Access governance
• Data Validation & Quality Assurance
• Monitoring, Incident & Support

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong experience with Snowflake platform administration
• Experience with Snowflake (schemas, RBAC, permissions), Azure (ADLS, PrivateLink, networking)
• Understanding of Data mesh / domain-driven architecture
• Experience with VPN, Proxy, SSH tunnels, Static IP configurations
• Co-ordination with Infra and Networking teams
• Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance standards
• Experience in Agile environments and CI/CD practices
• Familiarity with SNOW workflows
• Exposure to Data.world and Manta
• Knowledge on Terraform
• Ability to understand and write stored procedures
• Knowledge/understanding of python / java scripts
• Knowledge on GITHub, Jira

Qualifications

• Experience working with Snowflake and Confluent Kafka is a strong advantage.