Senior Snowflake Administrator/Engineer

Key Skills

Agile methodologies, AWS, Big Data Technology, Data Warehousing, Database, DevOps, Effective communication skills, Machine learning techniques, Optimization, Python Programming, Snowflake, SQL, Writing

Job Description

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in providing an environment that is open, collaborative, and entrepreneurial. We look for people who share our values, who push the pace of innovation while accelerating our growth and building a future for themselves. 

About the team:

Enterprise Big Data Solution provides FIS big Data capabilities including large scale data processing, analytics, fraud platforms, machine learning engineering, stream processing and data insights. Enterprise Big Data Solution help maintain and advance cloud data platforms and services to build data products powering our business services and customers. 

Job Summary:

Experienced Snowflake Cloud Data Platform Administrator, who will plan, design, develop and implement Snowflake cloud data platform that follows industry best practices.

Snowflake administrator will be integral part of team that is responsible for technical deployments for Snowflake working with internal and external customers.

Snowflake administrator with broad range of skills and experience ranging from security, performance analysis, observability, automation.

What you will be doing

• Work in a globally distributed team to provide robust enterprise data platform in Snowflake
• Design, optimize, document, and implement the operational aspects in supporting the snowflake cloud data platform. Including cost monitoring and optimizations, user security auditing
• Implement/support automation for production deployment in Snowflake
• Implement Snowflake standards and methodologies for DB security – both infrastructure and app level
• Implement/support automation for administering Snowflake - Accounts/Databases and access roles
• Implement data sharing /replication – cross cloud/cross region for internal/external clients
• Create Snowflake utilization and capacity plan
• Propose and implement DB / Snowflake query performance optimizations.
• Identify system bottlenecks and recommend solutions
• Implement Snowflake user /query log analysis and alerts
• Implement data encryption/decryption/masking policies to protect PII/PCI data
• Work as admin on Snowflake on AWS i.e., Configuration, Data migration and security

What you bring:

• Technical expertise in all aspects of Snowflake
• Experience in implementing Snowflake external functions
• Experience securing sensitive data PII/PCI data in snowflake
• Hands-on experience in administering Snowflake in AWS.
• Experience with AWS CLI and Networking
• Knowledge of security (SAML, SCIM, OAuth, OpenID, Kerberos, Policies, entitlements etc.)
• Experience with architecting and maintaining high availability production systems
• Experience with developing monitoring architecture and implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations, and alerts
• Knowledge of security controls for the public cloud (encryption of data in motion/rest and key management)
• Demonstrated proficiency of index design, query plan optimization and analysis required
• Hands-on experience in administration of relational Databases, Data Warehouse and Data marts.
• Demonstrated knowledge and hands-on experience with AWS alerting/monitoring tools
• Experience with Agile and DevOps concepts
• Strong development skills in Python or other scripting language
• Strong communication and written skills
• Experience working collaboratively with broad range of people across different lines of business
• Culture of continuous education to keep up to date on ever-evolving Snowflake product enhancement to be an authoritative resource for Snowflake
• Knowledge of financial industry practices, regulations and operations.

Experience & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5+ years of work experience (or) Master’s Degree and 3+ years of work experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, or another related field.
• Minimum 3+ years of related experience in Snowflake administration
• Minimum 5+ years of Database administration and data engineering
• Experience using AWS services
• Extensive hands-on experience with SQL
• Snowflake Pro certification

Added bonus if you have:

• AWS certification

What we offer you:

A career at FIS is more than just a job. It’s the change to shape the future of fintech. At FIS, we offer you:

• A voice in the future of fintech
• Always-on learning and development
• Collaborative work environment
• Opportunities to give back
• Competitive salary and benefits

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EEOC Statement

FIS is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetic information, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here supplement document available here

For positions located in the US, the following conditions apply. If you are made a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undergo a drug test. ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Sourcing Model

Recruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.