What are the responsibilities and job description for the Snowflake Platform Admin position at Amtex Enterprises?
Snowflake Platform Admin
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Hybrid- Onsite
- Chicago, Illinois (primary)
- Atlanta, GA (secondary)
- Minneapolis, MN considered
- San Francisco, CA may be considered for exceptional candidates
Candidate Profile
Manager specifically noted they are NOT looking for:
- Pure Snowflake developers
- Candidates focused only on ETL work
- Candidates limited to Snowflake administration
Ideal candidates will have:
- Enterprise platform engineering mindset
- Infrastructure and architecture experience
- Ability to build scalable frameworks for enterprise adoption
- Experience working with large cloud/data ecosystems
Additional Notes
- Manager prefers targeted submissions directly through vendor relationship before opening requisition publicly
- Strong urgency around finding the right candidate quickly
- Potential for additional future openings across the manager’s other platform teams once this role is filled
Hiring Manager Overview
Hiring manager leads multiple platform engineering teams within client's Data Architecture organization (“Data Arc”). Team responsibilities include:
- Enterprise Snowflake platform engineering
- Internal open-source data platforms
- Azure-based enterprise data lake initiatives
- Databricks connector platform development
- Enterprise Landing Zone / Data Lake support
- Large-scale data products including Customer 360, Financial Crimes, and DTR
Current environment includes:
- Snowflake
- Azure
- AWS
- Databricks
- Spark
- Airflow
- Scala
- Python
- Terraform
- Open-source data engineering stack
The immediate priority is standing up Snowflake on Azure as an enterprise offering.
Project Overview
Client is launching an enterprise Snowflake platform on Azure. Snowflake already exists within AWS environments at the client, but this team will own and scale the Azure implementation and eventually support broader enterprise adoption.
The initial focus is:
- Standing up Snowflake on Azure
- Supporting MVP use cases
- Building scalable enterprise architecture
- Creating reusable deployment patterns
- Enabling future enterprise tenant onboarding
This is considered a high-urgency initiative with aggressive timelines.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and support enterprise Snowflake architecture on Azure
- Build scalable and reusable Terraform deployments
- Support enterprise platform engineering initiatives
- Assist with Snowflake account setup and architecture
- Partner with networking and infrastructure teams
- Help define inbound/outbound Snowflake connectivity patterns
- Support private networking and security configurations
- Collaborate with Databricks and enterprise data platform teams
- Potentially assist with Scrum leadership responsibilities
Required Skills
Must-Have
- Snowflake platform engineering experience (not just development/admin)
- Azure cloud experience
- Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
- DevOps engineering background
- Enterprise-scale platform architecture experience
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration
Preferred
- Multi-cloud experience (Azure AWS)
- Networking knowledge:
- Private Link
- Firewall rules
- Secure cloud connectivity
- Databricks exposure
- Scrum Master / Agile leadership experience