Who are we

Fulcrum Digital is an agile and next-generation digital accelerating company providing digital transformation and technology services right from ideation to implementation. These services have applicability across a variety of industries, including banking & financial services, insurance, retail, higher education, food, healthcare, and manufacturing.

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Position Summary

Seeking an Intermediate to Advanced Snowflake Administrator to
manage, support, and optimize our Snowflake environment with a strong focus on stability,
security, performance, and operational excellence. This role requires
hands-on expertise in account-level administration, RBAC and
permission management, incident response, and platform governance,
while ensuring changes are implemented without service disruption and in
alignment with uptime SLAs.

The ideal candidate is technically solid, highly detail-oriented,
and an effective communicator who can work across technical and business teams.
They will be expected to proactively maintain platform health, quickly
troubleshoot outages, document administrative processes thoroughly, and stay
current with Snowflake releases and feature impacts.

Key Responsibilities

Snowflake Platform Administration

- Administer and support
the Snowflake platform across environments, including production and
non-production.

- Perform account-level
configuration and administrative changes with careful planning,
validation, and change control to avoid service interruptions.

- Manage core Snowflake
administrative functions such as:

- Users
and roles

- Warehouses

- Resource
monitors

- Network
policies

- Integrations

- Account
parameters

- Security
and access controls

- Monitor platform usage,
availability, and performance to ensure service reliability and adherence
to uptime SLAs.

- Identify opportunities
to improve operational efficiency, stability, and governance within the
Snowflake environment.

Access Management and Security

- Design, implement, and
maintain role-based access control (RBAC) according to best
practices and least-privilege principles.

- Manage permissions for
databases, schemas, tables, views, stages, warehouses, and other Snowflake
objects.

- Review and remediate
access issues in a timely and controlled manner.

- Partner with security,
infrastructure, and data teams to ensure administrative practices align
with internal controls and compliance expectations.

- Conduct periodic audits
of access, roles, grants, and inherited permissions.





Incident Management and Operational Support

- Respond to production
issues, outages, and service degradation events with urgency and
precision.

- Quickly identify root
cause, scope of impact, and resolution steps for Snowflake-related
incidents.

- Coordinate recovery
efforts while minimizing business disruption.

- Communicate incident
status, business impact, estimated restoration timelines, and
post-resolution updates clearly to both technical and non-technical
stakeholders.

- Support on-call or
after-hours administration as required for critical incidents or planned
maintenance activities.

Change Management and Documentation

- Plan and execute
platform changes with detailed risk assessment, rollback planning,
testing, and stakeholder communication.

- Maintain accurate and
comprehensive documentation for:

- Administrative
procedures

- Environment
configurations

- Role
hierarchies and permission models

- Incident
response steps

- Operational
runbooks

- Change
records

- Ensure all work reflects
strong attention to detail and disciplined operational practices.

Release and Feature Readiness

- Stay current on Snowflake
releases, new features, deprecations, and administrative impacts.

- Evaluate upcoming
Snowflake capabilities for operational readiness, configuration needs,
support requirements, and risks.

- Recommend and implement
administrative best practices based on platform evolution.

- Partner with
engineering, architecture, and governance teams to assess release impacts
before adoption.

Collaboration and Communication

- Work effectively with
data engineering, analytics, application teams, security, infrastructure,
and business stakeholders.

- Translate technical
issues and administrative decisions into clear business-friendly
communication.

- Provide guidance on
platform administration standards, access models, and operational best
practices.

- Support audits,
governance reviews, and cross-functional initiatives involving Snowflake.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in
Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or
equivalent practical experience.





- Several years of
experience administering Snowflake in a large-scale production
enterprise environment.

- Strong experience with Snowflake
account administration, including security, user management, warehouse
management, and platform configuration.

- Demonstrated experience
managing RBAC, permissions, and access governance at scale.

- Strong understanding of
Snowflake architecture and administrative best practices.

- Experience supporting
highly available data platforms with uptime and SLA expectations.

- Proven ability to
troubleshoot platform incidents, determine root cause, and drive timely
resolution.

- Experience with change
management processes that minimize risk and avoid service interruption.

- Excellent written and
verbal communication skills.

- Strong organizational
skills with exceptional attention to detail and documentation discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with
infrastructure, cloud platforms, and enterprise data ecosystems supporting
Snowflake.

- Familiarity with
scripting or automation using SQL, Python, Shell, or similar tools.

- Experience integrating
Snowflake administration with monitoring, alerting, and ticketing
processes.

- Understanding of data
security, audit controls, and compliance considerations in cloud data
platforms.

- Snowflake certifications
or other relevant cloud/data platform certifications.

- Experience supporting
regulated or mission-critical business environments.

Key Skills

- Snowflake administration

- Account-level
configuration management

- RBAC and access
governance

- Security administration

- Incident response and
root cause analysis

- Change management

- Platform monitoring and
uptime support

- Documentation and
operational runbooks

- Cross-functional
communication

- Risk assessment and
mitigation

- Attention to detail

- Release review and
feature readiness

Success Profile

A successful candidate in this role will:

- Make administrative
changes safely and confidently without disrupting service.

- Maintain strong uptime
and operational reliability in line with SLA expectations.

- Resolve incidents
quickly and communicate clearly throughout the process.

- Build and maintain a
clean, scalable, and secure RBAC model.

- Produce high-quality
documentation and carefully planned change records.

- Stay ahead of Snowflake
platform changes and ensure the environment remains well-supported and
current.

📌 Senior Snowflake administrator (Marunji)
🏢 Important Group
📍 Marunji