Job Description

Snowflake Administrator – Performance & Optimization Focus

• Locations: Southern California or Austin, TX
• Work Model: Hybrid (3–4 days per week on-site)

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Snowflake Administrator to support and optimize a highly scaled, enterprise-grade data platform within a leading global investment management organization. This role is heavily focused on query performance tuning, workload optimization, and cost efficiency , supporting analytics and data workloads used across investment, risk, and business teams.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Snowflake administration, a strong background in SQL optimization, and a proactive approach to improving performance and scalability in complex, high-demand environments.

Snowflake Performance & Optimization

• Drive query performance tuning initiatives, including optimization of complex analytical SQL, joins, subqueries, and aggregations.
• Analyze execution plans, query profiles, and system metrics to identify performance bottlenecks.
• Optimize warehouse sizing, multi-cluster strategies, concurrency management, and workload isolation.
• Apply best practices around clustering, micro-partition pruning, caching, and data access patterns.

Platform Administration & Operations

• Administer Snowflake environments across development, test, and production.
• Manage users, roles, access controls, resource monitors, and security configurations.
• Ensure platform reliability, availability, and operational excellence.
• Partner with data and analytics engineering teams to improve data models and query design.

Cost & Resource Governance

• Monitor and optimize Snowflake usage and spend across teams and workloads.
• Establish usage reporting, performance dashboards, and optimization standards.
• Recommend architectural improvements to balance scalability, performance, and cost.

Collaboration & Enablement

• Serve as a Snowflake subject matter expert, advising teams on performance best practices.
• Collaborate with engineers and analysts to improve query patterns and platform efficiency.
• Support enablement efforts through documentation, standards, and guidance.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with cloud data platforms, including significant hands-on Snowflake administration .
• Expert-level SQL skills with demonstrated experience in query optimization and performance tuning.
• Strong understanding of Snowflake architecture (warehouses, micro-partitions, caching, clustering).
• Experience supporting high-concurrency, large-scale analytical workloads.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve performance issues in production environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in financial services, asset management, or other data-intensive, regulated industries.
• Familiarity with modern analytics and BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker).
• Experience working alongside data engineering teams and transformation frameworks such as dbt.
• Exposure to major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

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