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# Snowflake Administrator / Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer

- **Company:** BCforward
- **Location:** Cincinnati, OH, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $239,200.0 - $243,360.0
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Computing Platforms, Computer Networks, Data Governance, Data Integration, Failover, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Role-Based Access Control, Shell Script, SQL Databases, Systems Integration, Scripting, Sql Optimization, System Availability, Snowflake, Caching, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform, Sql Tuning
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/4df200f8-91f3-4867-ab6f-7c39a20bec8b

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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.