Snowflake Administrator

12 Jan 2024

Vacancy expired!

Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 157 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.Job Purpose and ImpactTransform how we manage data and digital platforms at Cargill as we move towards fully implementing, managing and creating governance globally for our Data Platform using Snowflake.We are looking for a Snowflake Administrator who will take the lead in building the foundation for modern business applications in the company. In this role, you will apply your in depth knowledge of modern infrastructure and cloud software engineering practices to build, secure and maintain the core capabilities used by our data and application teams to drive business value. You will also coach and mentor junior engineers to deliver highly scalable and resilient systems using infrastructure as code across our data centers and cloud environments.Key Accountabilities

Build the platforms, systems and infrastructure using in depth knowledge of software development and infrastructure as code practices.

Take the lead to design, develop, test, deploy, support and enhance the complex and varied automated infrastructure and platform components.

Take the lead to drive large efforts, stories and tasks to completion.

Participate in the engineering community to maintain and share relevant technical approaches and modern skills and present best code practices.

Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.

Create guardrails to keep Snowflake costs in check.

Review Snowflake best practices & considerations for managing load operations and performance to the user community.

Enable data governance in Snowflake, including row/column-level data security using secure views and dynamic data masking features.

Implement advanced techniques for Snowflake performance-tuning methodologies.

Design and develop secure access to objects in Snowflake with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).

Recommend the Snowflake best practices for management, monitoring, and optimization.

Manage and allocate compute and storage resources.

Manage multiple accounts across the Organization.

Employ recovery methods and agile development with Time Travel & Cloning.

Use data replication for data sharing across accounts and for failover scenarios.

Share data securely both internally and externally our organization.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Experience implementing Snowflake in large global organizations

Experience with Python

Familiarity and experience with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS or Azure)

Experience managing and allocating compute and storage resources

Experience managing multiple accounts across a large highly matrixed organization

Experience with recovery methods and agile development with time travel & cloning

Experience sharing data securely both internally and externally in an organization.

Minnesota Sick and Safe LeaveMinnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.At Cargill, everyone matters and everyone counts. Cargill is committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. As such and in alignment with our Guiding Principles, Cargill's long-standing equal employment opportunity policy prohibits discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant based on race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, marital status, family status, citizenship status, veteran status, military status, union affiliation, or any other status protected by law.Cargill also complies with all applicable national and local laws and regulations pertaining to non-discrimination and employment.Notice to Recruiters and Staffing Agencies: Cargill, Inc. and subsidiaries (“Cargill”) have an internal recruiting department. Please review this notice.US Employment Resources: Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

Full-time
  • ID: #50858371
  • State: Minnesota Wayzata 55391 Wayzata USA
  • City: Wayzata
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Showed: 2024-01-12
  • Deadline: 2024-03-13
  • Category: Et cetera