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Senior Database Administrator

Rocket Mortgage
Chennai, IND
Full-time
Senior · 5+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 1 months ago
SnowflakeSQLAWSAzureGCPTerraform

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About the Role

Own end-to-end Snowflake platform administration including virtual warehouses, resource monitors, databases, shares, and storage integrations across environments

Implement, audit, and continuously refine Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), row/column-level security, and data masking policies to maintain enterprise-grade security and governance

Monitor query history, identify performance bottlenecks, tune slow-running queries, and track credit consumption to systematically reduce cloud spend

Configure and maintain cross-region replication, failover strategies, disaster recovery plans, and time-travel/fail-safe retention policies for comprehensive data protection

Partner with data engineers and CI/CD pipelines to support schema evolutions, code deployments, and database migrations with minimal disruption

Establish best practices, runbooks, and operational standards for Snowflake administration across the organization

Proactively identify risks, capacity constraints, and optimization opportunities before they impact production workloads

About You

Minimum Qualifications:

5–8 years of IT experience with at least 2+ years dedicated to Snowflake administration

Advanced SQL proficiency for complex data management, performance troubleshooting, and optimization

Shell scripting expertise for automating administrative workflows and operational tasks

Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and their integration patterns with Snowflake

Deep grasp of Snowflake architecture, credit models, data sharing mechanisms, and security governance frameworks

Proven ability to manage platform performance and cost at enterprise scale

Flexibility and willingness to learn new technologies based on organizational requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

SnowPro Core or SnowPro Advanced Database Administrator certification

Experience designing and implementing RBAC hierarchies and governance models for large, multi-team organizations

Hands-on experience with disaster recovery testing, failover orchestration, and cross-region replication strategies

Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Pulumi) for Snowflake resource provisioning and management

Experience with CI/CD-driven database change management using dbt, Flyway, Schemachange, or similar tools

Track record of measurably reducing Snowflake credit consumption through optimization initiatives

Experience mentoring junior administrators or data engineers on Snowflake best practices

Background in mortgage, financial services, or another regulated industry

Familiarity with FinOps principles and cloud cost governance frameworks

What You Will Get

At Rocket India, your expertise won't just be valued — it'll be leveraged to its fullest. You'll own a platform that's central to how the business operates, collaborate with world-class data and engineering teams, and have the autonomy to drive meaningful improvements that are felt across the organization. We offer competitive compensation that reflects your depth of experience, comprehensive health benefits, flexible work arrangements, certification sponsorship, and a culture built on trust, ownership, and continuous learning. Here, you're not maintaining infrastructure in the background — you're shaping the backbone of a technology-driven mortgage revolution.

About Us

Rocket India, registered as NSM Services Private Limited and formerly Mr. Cooper, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rocket Mortgage, LLC, headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. As a core part of Rocket's global ecosystem, Rocket India helps shape the future of home financing through technology, innovation, operations, product, and customer-focused solutions. Our teams build scalable platforms and digital experiences that simplify mortgage origination and servicing while supporting Rocket's mission to "Help Everyone Home."

We are committed to providing a fair and inclusive workplace for all team members and applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, religion, caste, disability, or gender identity, consistent with applicable Indian law, including the Constitution of India, the Code on Wages, 2019, the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016, and the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019. We welcome applications from persons with disabilities and from all sections of society.

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