Snowflake Admin Lead-6months-London
Kirtana consulting is looking for Snowflake Admin Lead for 6months rolling contract in London.
Job description:
Role Title: Snowflake Admin Lead
Minimum years of experience: 18+ years
Job Description
The Snowflake Platform Administrator/Lead 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.
Your role
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
Responsibilities
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 life cycle (grant/revoke roles & privileges) via ServiceNow/request workflows and ensure compliance documentation updates
Support Snowflake object life cycle 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
Required
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
Preferred (Good to Have)
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.
Personal
Besides the professional qualifications of the candidates, we place great importance in addition to various forms personality profile. These include:
High analytical skills
A high degree of initiative and flexibility
High customer orientation
High quality awareness
Excellent verbal and written communication skills