Job Description
About Us
SharkNinja is a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positively impact people’s lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the company has a proven track record of bringing disruptive innovation to market and developing one consumer product after another has allowed SharkNinja to enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains. Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts with more than 4,100 associates, the company’s products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world.
Data Platform Administrator
The Data Platform Administrator will play a critical role within the Data Platform team, responsible for supporting and evolving SharkNinja’s Snowflake-centric data ecosystem (Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Power BI). This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and governance of our data platform. You will play a key role in ensuring the data platform effectively supports the organization’s growing data, analytics, and AI needs.
Key Reponsibilities
Manage platform performance and scalability, identifying opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, and scalability while troubleshooting and resolving system bottlenecks.
Implement and enforce role-based access control (RBAC) and data governance, security, and compliance policies across the data platform, including support for SOX controls, auditing, and access reviews.
Manage user and service account access across the data platform, including role provisioning, access requests, and lifecycle management in alignment with security and compliance requirements.
Support user access reviews (UAR) and audit processes by maintaining accurate role assignments, access controls, and supporting documentation.
Monitor and optimize Snowflake usage and costs, including warehouse utilization, workload and query performance optimization, and data lifecycle and storage optimization.
Support and monitor Snowflake AI capabilities, including Snowflake Intelligence and agent-based workflows, ensuring appropriate governance, performance, and cost controls are in place as these features are adopted.
Collaborate with Data Engineering, Data Analytics, and AI/ML teams to ensure the data platform supports and scales with their roadmap initiatives and the organization’s evolving data needs.
Contribute to documentation, standards, and operational best practices for platform usage and governance.
Support data platform operations, including incident response and ongoing system reliability.
Qualifications
Must-Haves
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
4+ years of experience working with modern data platforms, with 2+ years of hands-on experience in Snowflake.
Strong understanding of Snowflake Intelligence features.
Experience implementing and managing RBAC and data access controls.
Experience with dbt, including model development, testing, and deployment workflows.
Proven experience with cost monitoring and optimization in cloud data platforms.
Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of data warehousing concepts.
Ability to troubleshoot data platform issues and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice-to-Haves
Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification.
Experience supporting regulatory and data compliance frameworks (e.g., SOX, GDPR), including audit controls, access reviews, and data privacy considerations in cloud data platforms.
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
Experience with data observability or monitoring tools.
Experience working in Agile environments and ticket-driven workflows, using tools such as Jira.
Salary and Other Compensation: The annual salary range for this position is displayed below. Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts (HSA) with company contribution, 401(k) retirement plan with matching, employee stock purchase program, life insurance, AD&D, short-term disability insurance, long-term disability insurance, generous paid time off, company holidays, parental leave, identity theft protection, pet insurance, pre-paid legal insurance, back-up child and eldercare days, product discounts, referral bonus program, and more.
Pay Range
$135,000—$165,000 USD
Our Culture
At SharkNinja, we don’t just raise the bar—we push past it every single day. Our Outrageously Extraordinary mindset drives us to tackle the impossible, push boundaries, and deliver results that others only dream of. If you thrive on breaking out of your swim lane, you’ll be right at home.
What We Offer
We offer competitive health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, employee stock purchase options, wellness programs, SharkNinja product discounts, and more. We empower your personal and professional growth with high impact Learning Programs featuring bold voices redefining what’s possible. When you join, you’re not just part of a company—you’re part of an outrageously extraordinary community. Together, we won’t just launch products— we’ll disrupt entire markets.
At SharkNinja, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are vital to our global success. Valuing each unique voice and blending all of our diverse skills strengthens SharkNinja’s innovation every day. We support ALL associates in bringing their authentic selves to work, making an impact, and having the opportunity for career acceleration. With help from our leadership, associates, and our community, we aim to have equity be a key component of the SharkNinja DNA.
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Life At SharkNinja
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We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other class protected by legislation, and local law. SharkNinja will consider reasonable accommodations consistent with legislation, and local law. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact SharkNinja People & Culture at [email protected]
