Snowflake Platform Administrator

Skills & Experience

• 3+ years of hands-on Snowflake administration experience within an enterprise environment, including platform configuration, SQL, Snowsight, warehouse management, performance monitoring, and cost optimization.
• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake Horizon Catalog, metadata management, data discovery, object tagging, automated classification, and enterprise data governance capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake security and access management, including RBAC, role hierarchies, masking, row-access policies, sensitive-data protection, identity management, and least-privilege access models.
• Experience configuring semantic views and Snowflake Cortex capabilities, including Cortex Analyst, Cortex Search, and governed data access for analytics and AI use cases.
• Experience implementing data quality monitoring, lineage, governed data sharing, Snowflake Marketplace, metadata reporting, and audit-ready governance controls; familiarity with DAMA-DMBOK principles is advantageous.
• Familiarity with APIs, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, cloud security, identity management, and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP; SnowPro certifications are preferred.