Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator

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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.

At Zelis, AI is woven into the fabric of how we work. Every associate is expected - and empowered - to partner with AI to challenge the status quo, accelerate innovation, and amplify their impact. This is a place for builders with a growth mindset who act with agility, embrace change, and use modern technology to shape smarter solutions, exceptional experiences, and the future of our industry for our clients, customers, and our culture.

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.

The Senior Snowflake Platform Administrator is the senior hands-on owner of the Snowflake platform that underpins the Zelis Data & AI Cloud (ZDC). As Zelis moves to an AI-Native model, our data fabrics, dashboards, and AI workloads all run on this Snowflake foundation — this role keeps it secure, governed, performant, and cost-efficient.

• Account & security administration — manage Snowflake accounts, databases, schemas, warehouses, users, roles, and resource monitors; design and maintain a clean RBAC model and least-privilege access; integrate identity via SSO / SCIM (Okta / Entra ).
• Governance & data protection — implement and maintain network policies, tag-based masking, row-/column-level access policies, tokenization, and encryption; leverage Snowflake Horizon for governance and monitoring; own PHI/DLP guardrails and support audit and compliance (HIPAA).
• Warehouse, compute & Fin Ops — size, tune, and optimize virtual warehouses (auto-suspend/resume, query tagging); manage resource monitors; drive cost management with chargeback/showback and unit-economics KPIs.
• Environment management & resilience — own dev/test/prod environments and cloning; design and operate Snowflake Data Sharing, external stages on AWS S3, Apache Iceberg tables, replication, Time Travel / Fail-safe, disaster-recovery / failover, and backup strategies.
• Performance, reliability & troubleshooting — query performance tuning, workload isolation, and capacity planning; diagnose and resolve Snowflake performance, pipeline, and access issues; partner with Data Operations on run-state issues.
• Platform automation & CI/CD — manage Snowflake objects as code (schema change / dbt / Terraform); build automation with Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, and Dynamic Tables; support deployment pipelines and release discipline.
• Documentation & runbooks — maintain platform documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.
• Standards, enablement & architecture partnership — document platform standards and guardrails; enable engineering and business-unit teams to build safely on the platform; partner with Data Platforms & Tooling on Snowflake architecture and solution design.
• Technical oversight — provide guidance and technical oversight to distributed / offshore Snowflake administration resources.

• 8+ years in data platform / data engineering roles, including 5+ years hands-on Snowflake administration in production.
• Deep RBAC / security design and data-governance experience (masking, access policies).
• Strong warehouse tuning, performance, and cost-optimization skills.
• Infrastructure-as-code, scripting, and CI/CD for Snowflake (Terraform, Bash/Python, schema change, dbt, Git Hub, or equivalent).
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