Senior Snowflake Architect; Platform & Administration

Position: Senior Snowflake Architect (Platform & Administration)
At Zelis, we Get Stuff Done. So, let’s get to it!

Zelis is modernizing the healthcare financial experience across payers, providers, and healthcare consumers. We serve more than 750 payers, including the top five national health plans, regional health plans, TPAs and millions of healthcare providers and consumers across our platform of solutions. Zelis sees across the system to identify, optimize, and solve problems holistically with technology built by healthcare experts – driving real, measurable results for clients.
** A Little About You
** You bring a unique blend of personality and professional expertise to your work, inspiring others with your passion and dedication. Your career is a testament to your diverse experiences, community involvement, and the valuable lessons you've learned along the way. You are more than just your resume; you are a reflection of your achievements, the knowledge you've gained, and the personal interests that shape who you are.
** 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 Do### Architecture & 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 Git Hub
* Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure
* Strong troubleshooting, communication, and…