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Data Platform Admin

Myriad360

WorldwideremotePosted today

Skill Required

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Key highlights

Remote role
Requires US Eastern working hours (9am - 5pm ET)
Must complete ongoing security awareness training
Requires hands-on experience with workflow orchestration

Role overview

This role reports to the Director of Enterprise Data & Analytics and involves operating and securing the data platform. You will work closely with data engineers and analysts to manage workflows, pipelines, integrations, access, and platform configurations, while ensuring platform reliability through diligent monitoring, testing, and documentation as the company grows.

Responsibilities

Implement and maintain Airflow workflows, including scheduling, dependencies, monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting.
Build and support data pipelines and integrations across the data platform (warehouse, transformation layer, code repository, etc).
Configure and maintain platform environments, integrations, and settings.
Administer users, roles, permissions, and service accounts; apply least-privilege access and secure credential practices, including row-level security.
Monitor pipeline freshness, volume, and failures; investigate issues, restore service, and prevent recurring problems.
Support GitHub, CI/CD, testing, and documented release practices for platform and pipeline changes.
Assess downstream effects of access and configuration changes; coordinate with analytics engineers and analysts.
Document operational procedures, ownership, and recovery steps as the environment grows.
Identify and escalate security risks to the appropriate Executive Leadership Team member and actively contribute to remediation efforts.
Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Experience administering or supporting a cloud data platform and its production workflows.
Experience with dbt, lineage best practices, and stage-dev-prod architecture.
Working SQL skills for validating data, investigating pipeline issues, and troubleshooting warehouse queries.
Working knowledge of Python or another language used for automation.
Experience with a cloud data warehouse such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift.
Hands-on experience with workflow orchestration, scheduling, monitoring, alerting, and recovery.
Experience building scalable data systems and pipelines.
Experience configuring platform environments, integrations, users, roles, permissions, and service accounts.
Familiarity with Git and collaborative testing and release practices.
Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and follow-through.
Ability to coordinate platform changes with analytics engineers and analysts, including assessing downstream effects.
Complete ongoing security awareness training and comply with company policies.

Nice to have

Experience with Airflow, Snowflake, and Fivetran.
Experience with Microsoft Fabric or Azure services.
Familiarity with Power BI refreshes and their data platform dependencies.
Experience implementing CI/CD or automated testing.
Familiarity with APIs, OAuth, service accounts, and secure credential management.
Experience supporting a growing company with evolving systems or acquisitions.
IT, VAR, distribution, or supply chain data experience.