Data Engineer - Snowflake Administrator
Zimmer Biomet2 months ago
Remote, ColombiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Administer Snowflake environments, including accounts, databases, schemas, warehouses, roles, users, and access structures.
- Grant, review, and revoke access while maintaining segregation-of-duties controls and documented approvals.
- Implement and maintain Snowflake security and governance capabilities such as role-based access control, row-level security, masking policies, tagging, metadata, and object ownership standards.
- Use Python and SQL to automate administrative tasks, validate configurations, support operational reporting, and improve platform reliability.
- Use GitHub and Pulumi for infrastructure-as-code, environment configuration, repeatable deployments, and change management.
- Support platform-adjacent services and servers used by orchestration tools such as Dagster.
- Partner with data engineering teams on platform standards, dbt enablement, and data-pipeline environment readiness.
- Maintain technical, administrative, PMO, access, runbook, status, and operational documentation.
- Support governance, audit, security, and privacy processes by producing evidence and participating in reviews.
- Monitor platform health, investigate incidents and access or configuration issues, and drive timely resolution.
- Recommend improvements to platform administration, governance, operational processes, and control effectiveness.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, Information Security, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in data-platform administration, database administration, cloud data engineering, or closely related technical roles.
- Hands-on experience administering Snowflake environments, including access management, role design, security controls, and governance setup.
- Strong Python and SQL experience for platform administration, automation, and operational controls.
- Experience with GitHub, change-control practices, and infrastructure-as-code approaches such as Pulumi.
- Experience supporting orchestration-platform environments such as Dagster is required or strongly preferred.
- Experience with OAuth setup and migration from key-pair authentication to OAuth-based connection models.
- Experience supporting integrations with Power BI, Openflow, and other third-party enterprise tools.
- Alteryx administration experience is preferred.
- Experience with dbt and modern data-platform ecosystems is preferred or a plus.
- Experience supporting audits, governance processes, documentation, and collaboration with security and privacy teams is preferred.
- Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, follow-through, risk-identification, documentation, and incident-handling skills.
- High English proficiency.
Benefits
- Flexible working environment.
- Employee resource groups and development opportunities.
- Location-specific competitive total rewards, wellness incentives, and recognition and performance awards.
- Up to 5% travel is expected.
About Zimmer Biomet
Zimmer Biomet designs and manufactures orthopedic implants, surgical instruments, and digital/robotic systems used by hospitals and surgeons for joint replacement and musculoskeletal care. It generates revenue by selling implants, consumables, and related software and services worldwide, including the ROSA robotic surgery platform. Founded in 1927 and headquartered in Warsaw, Indiana, the public company trades on the NYSE and sells in more than 100 countries.