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Senior Snowflake Administrator

Brillio

Virginia, United States (On-site)

Senior Snowflake Administrator

1 Month ago • 8 Years + • Administartive • $125,000 PA - $140,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Brillio is seeking an experienced Snowflake Administrator to manage and optimize their Snowflake environment, ensuring high performance, security, and reliability. The role involves collaboration with data engineering, BI, and infrastructure teams. Key responsibilities include administering and maintaining the Snowflake data platform, monitoring system performance, implementing features like Snowpipes and Streams, handling data replication, automating tasks, ensuring compliance with data governance and security standards, troubleshooting issues, and supporting ETL/ELT pipelines. The administrator will also provide technical guidance to teams using Snowflake.

Must have:

8+ years of experience as Snowflake Administrator
Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture, security, and administration
Strong SQL and performance tuning skills
Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Solid understanding of data governance, security policies, and compliance requirements
Strong communication and collaboration skills

Good to have:

Familiarity with data integration tools (e.g., Fivetran)
Experience in managing Snowflake accounts, warehouses, and multi-cluster configurations
Snowflake certification (preferred but not mandatory)
Experience in CI/CD for data infrastructure
Exposure to BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau
Experience working in Agile environments

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Job Details

About Brillio:

Brillio is one of the fastest growing digital technology service providers and a partner of choice for many Fortune 1000 companies seeking to turn disruption into a competitive advantage through innovative digital adoption. Brillio, renowned for its world-class professionals, referred to as "Brillians", distinguishes itself through their capacity to seamlessly integrate cutting-edge digital and design thinking skills with an unwavering dedication to client satisfaction.

Brillio takes pride in its status as an employer of choice, consistently attracting the most exceptional and talented individuals due to its unwavering emphasis on contemporary, groundbreaking technologies, and exclusive digital projects. Brillio's relentless commitment to providing an exceptional experience to its Brillians and nurturing their full potential consistently garners them the Great Place to Work® certification year after year.

Lead Data Engineer (Snowflake Admin)

Primary Skills

ETL Fundamentals, SQL, SQL (Basic + Advanced), Data Warehousing, Time Travel and Fail Safe, Snowpipe, SnowSQL, Modern Data Platform Fundamentals, PLSQL, T-SQL, Stored Procedures

Job requirements

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced Snowflake Administrator to join our team in Virginia Beach, VA. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing and optimizing our Snowflake environment, ensuring high performance, security, and reliability. This role involves collaboration with data engineering, BI, and infrastructure teams to support data-driven initiatives across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain the Snowflake data platform, including user access, roles, resource monitors, and security policies.

• Monitor system performance, usage, and storage; tune and optimize Snowflake performance.

• Implement and manage Snowflake features such as Snow pipes, Streams, Tasks, and Materialized Views.

• Handle data replication, sharing, and integration across environments and external systems.

• Automate routine maintenance tasks and monitor alerts using scripting or orchestration tools.

• Coordinate with DevOps and Infrastructure teams for patching, upgrades, and performance tuning.

• Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy, and security standards.

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Snowflake and data access.

• Support ETL/ELT pipelines and collaborate with data engineering teams for efficient data workflows.

• Provide technical guidance and support to development and analytics teams using Snowflake.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience as a Snowflake Administrator or in a similar role.

• Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture, security, and administration.

• Strong in SQL and performance tuning.

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Familiarity with data integration tools (e.g., Fivetran) is a plus.

• Experience in managing Snowflake accounts, warehouses, and multi-cluster configurations.

• Solid understanding of data governance, security policies, and compliance requirements.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Snowflake certification (preferred but not mandatory).

Nice to Have:

• Experience in CI/CD for data infrastructure.

• Exposure to BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau.

• Experience working in Agile environments.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Declaration

Brillio is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, colour, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.

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