Snowflake Administration

The Snowflake Platform Administrator is responsible for managing, securing, and supporting the Snowflake data platform across multiple business domains. The role focuses on platform administration, access governance, integration enablement, and operational support to ensure reliable and compliant data ingestion and replication across enterprise systems.

Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, the administrator ensures seamless data flow across Snowflake and integrated platforms such as Kafka, Confluent Cloud, ADLS, and other downstream systems.

At a senior level, the role also contributes to platform optimization, performance tuning, cost efficiency, and governance enforcement, while supporting scalable and secure data platform operations in multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities

Act as Snowflake Platform Admin within client ecosystem

Own administration, governance, and operational stability of Snowflake platform

Enable data onboarding via standardized Snowflake integration patterns

Ensure compliance with RBAC, SSO, security, and audit controls

Support onboarding teams for connector creation, configuration, and validation

Close collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure secure, scalable, Snowflake platform architecture

Knowledge on Terraform (there are few terraform scripts used)

Ability to understand and write stored procedures

knowledge/understating of python /java scripts

knowledge on GITHub, Jira

Manage Snowflake account-level, database-level, schema-level, and object-level roles using RBAC model (roles, role hierarchy, grants)

Administer Azure AD / SSO group mappings (SCIM/OAuth integration) for automated user provisioning and access control

Maintain environment/domain-based role and database structure (DEV / QA / PROD segregation, domain schemas)

Govern access lifecycle (grant/revoke roles & privileges) via ServiceNow/request workflows and ensure compliance documentation updates

Support Snowflake object lifecycle management (databases, schemas, tables, views, stages, tasks, streams)

Support data platform onboarding and integration enablement (schema setup, access provisioning, initial environment configuration)

Manage data access and sharing configurations (secure data sharing, external integrations, role-based access segregation)

Enforce RBAC policies across account, database, schema, and object levels ensuring domain-based access segregation

Work with Security teams for Firewall rules, VPN approvals, Access governance

Data Validation & Quality Assurance

Monitoring, Incident & Support

Prepare and Maintain Snowflake SOLD (Solution Design Documents), Integration templates and Knowledge base articles for access and onboarding

Technical requirements

Strong experience with Snowflake platform administration

Own day-to-day administration of Snowflake environments (databases, schemas, warehouses)

Manage compute warehouses (scaling, performance, cost optimization)

Ensure platform stability, availability, and operational efficiency

Handle incident management, troubleshooting, and RCA

Experience with Snowflake (schemas, RBAC, permissions), Azure (ADLS, PrivateLink, networking)

Understanding of Data mesh / domain-driven architecture

Experience with VPN, Proxy, SSH tunnels, Static IP configurations

Co-ordination with Infra and Networking teams

Monitoring & troubleshooting data pipelines

Incident and Change Management

Experience working with Snowflake and Confluent Kafka is a strong advantage.

Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance standards.

Experience in Agile environments and CI/CD practices.

Familiarity with SNOW workflows.

Exposure to Data.world and Manta.

Additional responsibilities

Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation.

With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.

“All aspects of employment at Infosys are based on merit, competence and performance. We are committed to embracing diversity and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Infosys is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.”

Education

Bachelor of Engineering