Snowflake Account Administrator

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Snowflake accounts across development, QA, UAT, production, and disaster recovery environments.
• Support environment consistency across Snowflake accounts, including configuration alignment, controlled access separation, and operational readiness.
• Manage Snowflake users, roles, privileges, grants, warehouses, resource monitors, and account-level settings.
• Provision, deprovision, and audit user access using least-privilege RBAC practices.
• Support SSO and MFA integration for Snowflake access, including coordination with Azure AD / Microsoft Entra ID where applicable.
• Monitor and support performance of Snowflake workloads that operate against very large tables, including identifying query, warehouse, and process-level issues that may impact reliability, cost, or runtime.
• Support data retention requirements by helping administer and monitor relevant Snowflake account, database, schema, and object-level configurations.
• Assist with account monitoring, warehouse usage, credit consumption visibility, resource monitors, and operational health checks.
• Maintain operational runbooks and documentation for onboarding, access changes, environment administration, incident response, and account recovery.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, data engineering, analytics, and application teams to support secure and reliable Snowflake operations.
• Provide general production support for Snowflake administrative and operational needs.

Required Experience

• Prior hands-on experience as a Snowflake administrator, Snowflake platform administrator, or Snowflake account administrator in a production environment.
• Experience administering Snowflake across multiple environments such as development, QA, UAT, production, and disaster recovery.
• Demonstrated experience managing Snowflake users, roles, grants, privileges, warehouses, resource monitors, and account-level configuration.
• Experience implementing and maintaining RBAC, least-privilege access, SSO, MFA, and access-control practices in Snowflake.
• Familiarity with Azure AD / Microsoft Entra ID integration concepts for authentication, identity, and access management.
• Experience supporting auditability through access reviews, user activity monitoring, administrative action tracking, and related operational controls.
• Familiarity with data retention concepts and the administrative controls needed to support retention requirements.
• Experience supporting large-scale Snowflake environments with very large data sets, including tables containing hundreds of billions to trillions of rows.
• Experience monitoring, troubleshooting, and supporting performance management for queries, pipelines, jobs, and operational processes that depend on very large Snowflake tables.
• Strong SQL skills and the ability to troubleshoot Snowflake operational, access, or configuration issues.
• Experience with account monitoring, query history, billing or consumption oversight, and usage governance.
• Ability to work cross-functionally with security, IAM, infrastructure, data engineering, analytics, and application teams.