Snowflake Administrator / Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Snowflake administration, SQL performance tuning, RBAC, and cost optimization and a proven ability to ensure a secure, reliable, and efficient enterprise data platform while resolving complex production issues., * Own day-to-day Snowflake administration, including user and role management, access controls, warehouse configuration, resource monitoring, and operational support.

• Analyze and optimize query performance, warehouse utilization, concurrency, and compute costs using Snowflake monitoring and account usage capabilities.
• Implement and maintain RBAC, least-privilege access, service accounts, authentication integrations, and data protection controls.
• Establish platform standards for warehouse sizing, auto-suspend and auto-resume, resource monitors, workload isolation, and cost management.
• Monitor platform health, investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures to improve reliability.
• Manage database objects and platform hygiene, including schemas, tables, views, retention settings, and obsolete resource cleanup.
• Support data integration and connectivity with AWS services such as S3 and IAM, and relevant ingestion and processing tools.
• Automate administrative tasks and operations using SQL, Python, scripting, and APIs.
• Develop operational dashboards, documentation, and procedures for monitoring, incident response, access reviews, and cost reporting.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, security, and business teams on platform architecture, upgrades, new capabilities, and enterprise data initiatives.

• Extensive hands-on experience administering and supporting Snowflake in a production enterprise environment.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, virtual warehouses, micro-partitions, caching, query execution, and resource consumption.
• Advanced SQL skills with demonstrated experience diagnosing and resolving query performance issues.
• Practical experience implementing Snowflake RBAC, role hierarchies, grants, access policies, and secure access patterns.
• Experience with warehouse sizing, workload management, cost monitoring, and compute optimization.
• Experience troubleshooting production incidents and improving platform reliability.
• Understanding of database administration, data governance, and enterprise security practices.
• Ability to work independently, communicate effectively, and produce clear technical documentation.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience integrating Snowflake with AWS S3, IAM, Glue, and enterprise data pipelines.
• Python or shell scripting for automation and administrative tasks.
• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Familiarity with Snowflake resource monitors, ACCOUNT_USAGE and ORGANIZATION_USAGE views, and query history analysis.
• Experience with masking policies, row access policies, network policies, and authentication integrations.
• Knowledge of workload management, multi-cluster warehouses, replication, failover, and business continuity.
• SnowPro Core or Advanced certification.
• Experience in financial services or other regulated enterprise environments.

• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Opportunities for growth with global clients.
• A supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and people.
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and projects.

BCforward is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity.