Database Administrator II / Senior (Snowflake / Cloud / On-Prem)

Database Administrator II / Senior (Snowflake / Cloud / On-Prem)

Position Summary:

We are looking for a highly motivated, hands-on Principal Database Administrator to own the performance,

availability, security, and cost efficiency of our enterprise data platform and databases across Snowflake,

Azure, and on-premises SQL Server. This is a senior technical role responsible for administering our

Snowflake account end to end, tuning complex workloads, enforcing least-privilege access in a regulated

environment, and establishing the automation, security, documentation, and operational standards a growing

data organization depends on.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end Snowflake administration: account, warehouse, database, schema, and role

architecture.

• Design and maintain a scalable RBAC model with least-privilege enforcement and clean role

inheritance.

• Manage database and platform access requests, ensuring appropriate approvals, security controls, and

timely provisioning.

• Manage warehouse sizing, auto-suspend/resume, and multi-cluster configuration for workload

isolation.

• Monitor and optimize Snowflake credit consumption; implement resource monitors, cost center

reporting, and proactive spend alerting.

• Tune query and pipeline performance using Query Profile, clustering keys, micro-partition pruning,

materialized views, and Search Optimization.

• Administer Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, storage integrations, Secure Data Sharing, and cross-region

replication.

• Implement column-level security, dynamic data masking, row access policies, and data classification

tagging for sensitive data.

• Support administration, access, security, and integration patterns across Databricks and other cloud

data platforms.

• Partner closely with Security to identify, remediate, and prevent database and data-platform security

findings.

• Administer Azure SQL Database and Managed Instance, including geo-replication, auto-failover

groups, and backup/restore strategy.

• Administer on-premises SQL Server: patching, upgrades, Always On Availability Groups,

replication, and SQL Agent/SSIS jobs.

• Own and regularly test backup and recovery procedures against defined RTO/RPO targets across all

environments.

• Enforce database security and auditing controls sufficient to satisfy internal audit and regulatory

examination.

• Automate routine administration using Python, PowerShell, and/or Terraform to eliminate manual

toil.

• Manage database objects and permissions through source-controlled, peer-reviewed CI/CD

deployment.

• Support secure authentication and credential management, including key-pair authentication and

related configuration changes.

• Build monitoring, alerting, and observability for availability, performance, capacity, and cost.
• Participate in on-call rotation; lead incident response and root cause analysis for database-related

outages.

• Maintain runbooks, architecture documentation, and operational procedures so the team is not

dependent on any single person.

• Serve as the escalation point for complex database issues and mentor engineers on tuning and best

practices.

• Support onboarding and integration of new data and AI technologies, ensuring appropriate security,

access, and operational controls are in place.

• Partner with data engineering, architects, analytics, application development, security, accounting,

and business teams on architecture and operational decisions.

Core Competencies and Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Masters degree in CS, Engineering, or related technical field.
• 3 to 6 years of database administration experience, including 2+ years administering Snowflake in

production.

• Demonstrated expertise in Snowflake performance tuning and credit/cost optimization at enterprise

scale.

• Experience working across multiple cloud technologies and data platforms, with the ability to quickly

learn and adopt new technologies.

• Deep, hands-on SQL Server administration experience across on-premises and Azure (SQL Database

and/or Managed Instance).

• Expert-level SQL, including complex query authoring, execution plan analysis, and optimization.
• Proven experience designing and implementing RBAC and data security controls.
• Experience managing database/data-platform access and partnering with security teams to remediate

security findings.

• Hands-on high availability and disaster recovery experience with tested, documented recovery

procedures.

• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, PowerShell, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflow, source-controlled database change management, and deployment

processes.

• Strong incident response skills and comfort operating under production pressure.
• Write clean, well-documented code and procedures that can be easily maintained and extended by

the team.

• Provide support for critical production systems as needed.
• Strong problem-solving skills , Exceptional attention to detail and strong ownership of operational

accuracy and quality.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to explain technical trade-offs

to non-technical stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to build trusted partnerships across technical and business teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• SnowPro Advanced: Administrator or SnowPro Advanced: Architect certification.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate.
• Familiarity in Mortgage Space or another regulated financial services environment.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform) for database and warehouse provisioning.
• Familiarity with Airflow, or comparable transformation and orchestration tooling.
• Experience supporting analytics and machine learning workloads, not only transactional systems.
• Prior experience leading a database platform migration or major version upgrade.
• Experience with Databricks or other modern cloud data platforms.
• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms, tools, or integrations.
• Experience with cloud security, authentication, key management, and access governance.
• Experience supporting US-based stakeholders across multiple business and technology functions