CloudHive ยท 3 days ago
Snowflake Administrator
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level
$90/hr - $100/hr
5+ years expCloudHive is a leading global investment management organization seeking an experienced Snowflake Administrator to optimize their enterprise-grade data platform. The role focuses on query performance tuning, workload optimization, and ensuring cost efficiency across analytics and data workloads.
Staffing & Recruiting
Responsibilities
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
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
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
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
Qualification
Required
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
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)
Company
CloudHive
CloudHive is your North America and LATAM Snowflake-focused staffing partner.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase