Staff (Snowflake DBA)
OneMain Financial
Baltimore, MD
OMF is looking for an individual contributor staff engineer. In this role, you will be a key team member on an enterprise platform which plays a critical role in the company. Successful staff engineer will be inquisitive, innovative, collaborative, influential, and hands on to ensure seamless platform operations and continued evolution of the services over time.
Key Responsibilities
Snowflake Platform Administration & Cost Intelligence
- Own RBAC and security posture across AWS Snowflake accounts; ensure policy‑driven access aligned to least privilege
- Govern schema, warehouse, and database configurations for sustained performance and reliability
- Set and enforce Time Travel retention and replication/failover policies across environments
- Establish cost intelligence: implement auto‑suspend/scale rules, credit‑usage dashboards, and anomaly alerts; drive ongoing cost/perf optimization
- Orchestrate enterprise DR drills for PROD/DR; ensure controlled failover and rapid, verifiable recovery
Performance & Optimization
- Instrument and tune query performance; eliminate systemic bottlenecks and publish platform tuning patterns
- Right‑size compute and qualify/migrate critical workloads to improved configurations; document measurable cost/performance outcomes
Change Management, Security & Compliance
- Design and maintain automated, auditable change pipelines (Git‑based workflows, CI/CD, approval gates) for Snowflake releases
- Lead quarterly SOX access reviews; enforce RBAC, segregation of duties, and environment isolation (PROD vs. Non‑PROD)
- Enforce encryption policies, IP/network controls, and zero‑trust‑aligned guardrails.
Cross‑Functional Collaboration & Enablement
- Partner with application and analytics teams (e.g., Glue, DBT, Databricks, Power BI, Looker) to deliver secure, performant integrations and reliable data products
- Engage InfoSec and Audit on controls, evidence, and remediation plans
- Lead incident & problem management for connectivity, driver, and upstream/downstream integration issues; deliver durable root‑cause fixes and prevention playbooks
- Mentor junior DBA and data engineers through patterns, runbooks, and design reviews
Platform Evolution
- Set platform direction, evangelize best practices, and influence roadmaps across teams; translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for both executives and engineers, building consensus and momentum
- Anticipate risks and solve incidents/problems proactively, and institutionalize innovations as standards to unlock performance, resilience, and cost efficiencies
- Champion targeted POCs for advanced Snowflake capabilities—including Cortex for AI/semantic layers, ML pipelines, dbt native projects, Snowpark, Container Services, and Native Apps
Required Skills
- Strong expertise in Snowflake architecture, SQL, and performance tuning
- Deep understanding of analytical platforms or database concepts and familiarity with industry trends
- Familiarity with role-based security models and SOX compliance
- Scripting skills (Python, Shell) for automation
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years in analytical data platform administration with at least 3 years on Snowflake.
- Knowledge of ETL tools (DBT, Databricks, DataStage etc..) and BI platforms (Power BI, Looker)
- Experience in disaster recovery planning and audit processes
- Exposure to cloud security best practices
Who we Are
OneMain Financial (NYSE: OMF) is the leader in offering nonprime customers responsible access to credit and is dedicated to improving the financial well-being of hardworking Americans. Since 1912, we’ve looked beyond credit scores to help people get the money they need today and reach their goals for tomorrow. Our growing suite of personal loans, credit cards and other products help people borrow better and work toward a brighter future.
Driven collaborators and innovators, our team thrives on transformative digital thinking, customer-first energy and flexible work arrangements that grow lives, careers and our company. At every level, we’re committed to an inclusive culture, career development and impacting the communities where we live and work. Getting people to a better place has made us a better company for over a century. There’s never been a better time to shine with OneMain.
Because team members at their best means OneMain at our best, we provide opportunities and benefits that make their health and careers a priority. That’s why we’ve packed our comprehensive benefits package for full- and some part-timers with:
- Health and wellbeing options including medical, prescription, dental, vision, hearing, accident, hospital indemnity, and life insurances
- Up to 4% matching 401(k)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% share discount)
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid time off (15 days’ vacation per year, plus 2 personal days, prorated based on start date)
- Paid sick leave as determined by state or local ordinance, prorated based on start date
- Paid holidays (7 days per year, based on start date)
- Paid volunteer time (3 days per year, prorated based on start date)
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