Data Platform Administrator

Data Platform Administrator 

The Data Platform Administrator will play a critical role within the Data Platform team, responsible for supporting and evolving SharkNinja’s Snowflake-centric data ecosystem (Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Power BI). This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and governance of our data platform. You will play a key role in ensuring the data platform effectively supports the organization’s growing data, analytics, and AI needs. 

Key Reponsibilities 

• Manage platform performance and scalability, identifying opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, and scalability while troubleshooting and resolving system bottlenecks. 

• Implement and enforce role-based access control (RBAC) and data governance, security, and compliance policies across the data platform, including support for SOX controls, auditing, and access reviews. 

• Manage user and service account access across the data platform, including role provisioning, access requests, and lifecycle management in alignment with security and compliance requirements. 

• Support user access reviews (UAR) and audit processes by maintaining accurate role assignments, access controls, and supporting documentation. 

• Monitor and optimize Snowflake usage and costs, including warehouse utilization, workload and query performance optimization, and data lifecycle and storage optimization. 

• Support and monitor Snowflake AI capabilities, including Snowflake Intelligence and agent-based workflows, ensuring appropriate governance, performance, and cost controls are in place as these features are adopted. 

• Collaborate with Data Engineering, Data Analytics, and AI/ML teams to ensure the data platform supports and scales with their roadmap initiatives and the organization’s evolving data needs. 

• Contribute to documentation, standards, and operational best practices for platform usage and governance. 

• Support data platform operations, including incident response and ongoing system reliability. 

 Qualifications 

Must-Haves 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field. 

• 4+ years of experience working with modern data platforms, with 2+ years of hands-on experience in Snowflake. 

• Strong understanding of Snowflake Intelligence features. 

• Experience implementing and managing RBAC and data access controls. 

• Experience with dbt, including model development, testing, and deployment workflows. 

• Proven experience with cost monitoring and optimization in cloud data platforms. 

• Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of data warehousing concepts. 

• Ability to troubleshoot data platform issues and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 

Nice-to-Haves 

• Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification. 

• Experience supporting regulatory and data compliance frameworks (e.g., SOX, GDPR), including audit controls, access reviews, and data privacy considerations in cloud data platforms. 

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform. 

• Experience with data observability or monitoring tools. 

• Experience working in Agile environments and ticket-driven workflows, using tools such as Jira.gorustaidataanalyticsproductdesign