Senior Systems Analyst

Key Responsibilities:

• Install, configure, and manage application infrastructure to support data teams.

• Monitor system performance using data virtualization dashboards, logs, and external monitoring tools.
• Conduct performance tuning of queries, servers, and data source connections.
• Perform query profiling and troubleshooting slow queries.
• Perform backups, recovery operations, and environment maintenance.
• Apply object tagging, data classification, retention, and sharing policies.

• Manage authentication & authorization (user roles, ABAC/RBAC, LDAP/AD integration). Review & fix governance/security violations.
• Enforce SSO integration, MFA, and access control policies.
• Ensuring compliance with data protection regulations and organizational data governance policies (SOX or regulatory compliance).

• Resolve complex application errors, connectivity issues, and performance bottlenecks.
• Perform root-cause analysis of system health issues and query failures.
• Work with application vendor support teams and manage different support cases till resolution.

• Work with data/systems architects, developers, DevOps, infrastructure, and business users on different aspects of application as support person.

• Monitor platform health, Snowflake credits, warehouse usage, and storage. Implement resource monitors and usage dashboards to prevent overspending.
• Tune scaling policies to avoid unnecessary compute consumption.
• Develop test cases and validate results for different applications supported by team.
• Coaches and transfers knowledge to less experienced team members.
• Exercises independent judgment and decision-making in planning, organizing and conducting work assignments.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field is typically required.

Preferred Years of Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years hands on experience.

Preferred Companies/Industries:

• Prior experience in the utilities industry.

Top Required Skills:

• Experience with scripting languages such as Client, R, Python, PowerShell, or Perl. PowerShell and Perl are highest priority but should look for someone well rounded/experience in all.
• Experience with Kubernetes/HA environments – start to finish and understanding of function of its connectivity and function in security, has to be able to diagnose if it breaks and fix it.
• Experience with AWS/GCP/Azure – know the Client of the land, understanding what needs to take place if an issue takes place in the clouds, how it communicates, and cost associated with it.
• Certifications specific to Snowflake, Informatica, Denodo, Dataiku – nice to have. First 3 are really nice to have/Dataiku can get later.

Soft Skills Requirements:

• Strong communication skills both verbal and written.
• Ability to lead, collaborate, or work effectively in a variety of teams, including multi-disciplinary teams.

Preferred Interview Process Overview (High Level):

• Teams – Camera On.