Administer and modernize cloud-Financial platforms (Azure and Snowflake) with secondary support for on-premises SQL Server, focusing on centralized, automated deployments, secure operations, performance/availability, and continuous improvement through automation.
Responsibilities:
Administer and support cloud-Financial platforms, including Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Database/Managed Instance, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Snowflake.
Provide support for on-premises SQL Server, centralize and standardize deployments for SQL Server related components, including SQL code, SQL Agent jobs, SSIS packages, SSAS models, SSRS reports, and BI/analytics tools.
Design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and release processes for databases, pipelines, and analytics artifacts across environments.
Build and operate deployment automation and administrative tooling using scripting and programming, enabling self-service and reducing manual effort.
Monitor, tune, and optimize database and warehouse performance across platforms, ensuring capacity planning, cost/performance efficiency, and stable SLAs.
Implement and validate backup/restore, high availability and disaster recovery, replication, and data protection controls for on-prem and cloud environments.
Operate and govern data ingestion/integration pipelines, ensuring reliability, lineage, and deployable, version-controlled models.
Manage security, access controls, secrets, and auditing across data platforms and tooling; ensure proper handling of highly sensitive PHI in compliance with HIPAA.
Lead incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and problem management for production and critical environments; participate in on-call support as required.
Drive continuous improvement using an automation-first, AI-enabled approach by applying standardization, templates, and intelligent tooling.
Requirements:
Cloud Data Platform Administration (Azure & Snowflake) – Expert
Database Release Engineering & CI/CD (DevOps for Data Platforms) – Advanced
Database Reliability, Performance & DR (SQL Server & Cloud) – Advanced
Preferred Skills:
8 to 10 years administering and supporting enterprise data platforms, with primary focus on cloud services and support for on-premises SQL Server.
5 years building and operating standardized release processes and CI/CD pipelines for database, ETL/ELT, and analytics artifacts.
Proven experience operating mission-critical data systems, including performance tuning, monitoring/alerting, capacity planning, and resilient backup/restore and DR practices.
Experience implementing access controls, auditing, and secure configuration across data platforms, partnering with security/compliance stakeholders, and supporting HIPAA-regulated environments.
