Senior Snowflake Architect (Platform & Administration)

Position Overview

We are seeking a Senior Snowflake Architect to design, build, and operate our Snowflake data platform. This role blends hands-on architecture with platform administration, ensuring Snowflake is secure, scalable, performant, and cost-efficient.
This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role with technical ownership and matrix leadership responsibilities, partnering closely with data engineering, analytics, and cloud teams to enable reliable, high-impact data solutions.

What You’ll DoArchitecture & Engineering

• Design and implement scalable Snowflake architectures supporting data warehouse, data lake, and data sharing use cases.

• Lead Snowflake solution design, including:

• • Dimensional and analytical data models

  • Batch and near real-time ELT/ETL pipelines

  • Data integration and Snowflake Data Sharing

  • End-to-end data layers (Bronze / Silver / Gold), semantic views, and analytics-ready datasets

  • Advanced Snowflake capabilities including Cortex AI and data agents

• Define and implement governance features such as Snowflake Horizon, masking, and encryption.

• Collaborate with data engineers, analytics teams, and product partners to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Evaluate new Snowflake features and recommend adoption to improve performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.

• Enable advanced analytics use cases in Snowflake, including predictive modeling and anomaly detection using Cortex AI.

Platform Administration & Operations

• Own day-to-day administration of Snowflake environments across development, test, and production.

• Manage Snowflake configuration including warehouses, databases, schemas, users, roles, and resource monitors.

• Monitor and optimize platform performance, availability, and cost usage.

• Implement and maintain Snowflake security controls, including:

• • Role-based access control (RBAC)

  • Masking and row access policies

  • Governance and monitoring features

• Troubleshoot and resolve Snowflake performance, pipeline, and access issues.

• Design and implement data sharing, replication, disaster recovery/failover, and backup strategies.

• Maintain platform documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.

• Ensure adherence to enterprise privacy, security, and data governance standards.

• Provide guidance and technical oversight to distributed or offshore Snowflake administration resources.

What You’ll Bring

• 8–10+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or data platform roles

• 4–5+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience spanning architecture and administration

• Strong expertise in:

• • Snowflake architecture, performance tuning, and cost optimization

  • Data warehousing concepts and dimensional modeling

  • Advanced SQL; Python experience preferred

• Experience designing and operating ELT/ETL pipelines

• Working knowledge of Snowflake security and governance features

• Scripting and automation experience (e.g., Bash, Terraform, or similar tools)

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub

• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure

• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills

• Snowflake SnowPro Core certification preferred

Why Join Us

You’ll play a critical role in shaping a modern, enterprise-scale data platform — working hands-on with Snowflake’s latest capabilities while partnering with talented engineering and analytics teams to deliver meaningful business impact.

Base Salary Range

$139,000.00 - $186,000.00

At Zelis we are committed to providing fair and equitable compensation packages. The base salary range allows us to make an offer that considers multiple individualized factors, including experience, education, qualifications, as well as job-related and industry-related knowledge and skills, etc. Base pay is just one part of our Total Rewards package, which may also include discretionary bonus plans, commissions, or other incentives depending on the role.

Zelis’ full-time associates are eligible for a highly competitive benefits package as well, which demonstrates our commitment to our employees’ health, well-being, and financial protection. The US-based benefits include a 401k plan with employer match, flexible paid time off, holidays, parental leaves, life and disability insurance, and health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug coverage.

Equal Employment Opportunity  
Zelis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. 
 
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications for the role. We believe in the value of diverse perspectives and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive workplace for all. 

Accessibility Support 
We are dedicated to ensuring our application process is accessible to all candidates. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require a reasonable accommodation with any part of the application and/or interview process, please email [email protected]. 

  

Disclaimer 

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities, duties, and skills from time to time.