Snowflake Administrator / Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer
Cincinnati, OHContract$115–117/hrSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago
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BCforward seeks a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer to administer and support an enterprise Snowflake platform. The role focuses on performance tuning, access controls, cost optimization, reliability, and production issue resolution. The engineer will also support AWS integrations, automate administrative operations, and collaborate with engineering, architecture, security, and business teams on platform initiatives.
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Job Title: Snowflake Administrator / Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer Location: Cincinnati OH Duration: Contract - 2 months Pay Range: $115/hr to $117/hr (W2) Job ID: 411273 About BCforward BCforward is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity. Job Description We are seeking a Senior Snowflake Platform Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Snowflake administration, SQL performance tuning, RBAC, and cost optimization and a proven ability to ensure a secure, reliable, and efficient enterprise data platform while resolving complex production issues. Responsibilities: * Own day-to-day Snowflake administration, including user and role management, access controls, warehouse configuration, resource monitoring, and operational support. * Analyze and optimize query performance, warehouse utilization, concurrency, and compute costs using Snowflake monitoring and account usage capabilities. * Implement and maintain RBAC, least-privilege access, service accounts, authentication integrations, and data protection controls. * Establish platform standards for warehouse sizing, auto-suspend and auto-resume, resource monitors, workload isolation, and cost management. * Monitor platform health, investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventative measures to improve reliability. * Manage database objects and platform hygiene, including schemas, tables, views, retention settings, and obsolete resource cleanup. * Support data integration and connectivity with AWS services such as S3 and IAM, and relevant ingestion and processing tools. * Automate administrative tasks and operations using SQL, Python, scripting, and APIs. * Develop operational dashboards, documentation, and procedures for monitoring, incident response, access reviews, and cost reporting. * Collaborate with engineering, architecture, security, and business teams on platform architecture, upgrades, new capabilities, and enterprise data initiatives. Required Skills & Qualifications: * Extensive hands-on experience administering and supporting Snowflake in a production enterprise environment. * Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, virtual warehouses, micro-partitions, caching, query execution, and resource consumption. * Advanced SQL skills with demonstrated experience diagnosing and resolving query performance issues. * Practical experience implementing Snowflake RBAC, role hierarchies, grants, access policies, and secure access patterns. * Experience with warehouse sizing, workload management, cost monitoring, and compute optimization. * Experience troubleshooting production incidents and improving platform reliability. * Understanding of database administration, data governance, and enterprise security practices. * Ability to work independently, communicate effectively, and produce clear technical documentation. Preferred Skills: * Experience integrating Snowflak
How this job compares
Set against the 4,278 open Platform Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$115–117/hr
- US median$65–77/hr58 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $116/hr, is 63% above the US median midpoint ($71/hr) — in the top quarter of Platform Engineer hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 89 open Platform Engineer jobs in Ohio and 4,278 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
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- Education
- 1,319 of the 4,278 open Platform Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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