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