Application & Data Platform Specialist

The Application & Data Platform Specialist will work closely with application and solutions architecture teams, developers, database administrators, infrastructure teams, security teams, and business stakeholders. Administer Tableau Server and/or Tableau Cloud, including users, groups, permissions, projects, data sources, dashboards, workbooks, extracts, schedules, and subscriptions.

Application & Data Platform Specialist

We are hiring an Application & Data Platform Specialist to support enterprise applications, data platforms, and reporting environments. This role will have a strong focus on Snowflake and Tableau administration, while also providing technical support for enterprise applications, databases, integrations, infrastructure, and production environments.

This is a hybrid position in the Quincy, MA, area. Candidates must be able to reliably commute to this location. 

Please note: No C2C, Subcontracting or Visa Sponsorship of any kind is available for this position.

The Application & Data Platform Specialist will work closely with application and solutions architecture teams, developers, database administrators, infrastructure teams, security teams, and business stakeholders. The position combines hands-on platform administration with application support, technical analysis, troubleshooting, development support, and solution implementation.
What You’ll Do
Application Architecture & Technical Support

• Support application and solutions architecture teams in evaluating, designing, documenting, and implementing application solutions and enhancements.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications, designs, and implementation plans.
• Provide technical analysis and recommendations related to application architecture, databases, interfaces, middleware, infrastructure, and integrations.
• Develop and maintain technical designs, application documentation, diagrams, and implementation artifacts.
• Participate in technical reviews of application changes, database scripts, interfaces, and production releases.
• Support application modernization and enhancement initiatives.
• Serve as a technical resource to development, QA, infrastructure, operations, and business teams.

Application & Production Support

• Develop and maintain a strong understanding of application components, databases, interfaces, middleware, operating systems, and supporting infrastructure.
• Support production and non-production application environments in collaboration with technical teams.
• Coordinate and support application installations, configurations, deployments, upgrades, and production releases.
• Troubleshoot complex application, database, interface, infrastructure, and batch-processing issues.
• Perform or support application database administration and UNIX/Linux administration activities.
• Maintain technical documentation, operating procedures, and application knowledge-base information.
• Support production operations and participate in on-call activities as required.

Snowflake & Tableau Administration

• Administer and support enterprise Snowflake and Tableau environments, ensuring availability, security, performance, and reliability.
• Manage Snowflake databases, schemas, warehouses, users, roles, permissions, and platform configurations.
• Monitor Snowflake workloads, queries, storage, and compute utilization.
• Assist with Snowflake performance and cost optimization.
• Administer Tableau Server and/or Tableau Cloud, including users, groups, permissions, projects, data sources, dashboards, workbooks, extracts, schedules, and subscriptions.
• Monitor Tableau platform performance, extract refreshes, scheduled processes, and system utilization.
• Troubleshoot Snowflake and Tableau operational issues.
• Manage platform access controls in accordance with security and data-governance standards.
• Support Tableau connectivity to Snowflake and other enterprise data sources.
• Support platform upgrades, integrations, configuration changes, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
• Maintain administration standards, operating procedures, and technical documentation for both platforms.

Data, Reporting & Development Support

• Develop and support enterprise reports, queries, scripts, and data solutions.
• Support data reconciliation, database corrections, data archiving, query tuning, and performance optimization.
• Work with analysts and business stakeholders to translate reporting and data requirements into technical solutions.
• Support development and testing of application enhancements and technical fixes.
• Review database and production scripts for technical accuracy and operational readiness.
• Ensure batch processes and scheduled jobs are appropriately documented, monitored, and designed to operate efficiently with minimal manual intervention.

Collaboration & Customer Support

• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, database, data, architecture, and business teams.
• Proactively investigate and resolve application and customer issues, coordinating resolution across technical teams.
• Communicate task, project, and issue status clearly to management and stakeholders.
• Maintain current technical knowledge and share information and best practices with team members.

Required Skills & Experience
Experience with several of the following is preferred:

• Snowflake administration and performance optimization
• Tableau Server and/or Tableau Cloud administration
• Oracle, SQL Server, SQL, and PL/SQL
• Java and enterprise application development
• UNIX/Linux and shell scripting
• AWS and cloud environments
• Application interfaces and system integrations
• Database administration and query tuning
• Enterprise reporting and analytics
• XML/XSLT and service-oriented architecture
• HIPAA/HL7 environments
• Production application and batch-processing support

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• 5+ years of professional IT experience in application development, systems analysis, database administration, platform administration, or production support.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage multiple technical assignments and work independently while collaborating with senior technical resources.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong customer-service and stakeholder-management skills.

Pay up to $61 / hour W2

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