Senior IT Database Administrator (Senior Snowflake DBA) at GuideWell in Jacksonville, FL

Job description

All of our team members and contributors are expected to deliver results with accountability while collaborating seamlessly across boundaries. They embrace change with resilience, staying curious and learning continuously in a rapidly evolving landscape. Grounded in business understanding and comfortable with AI and digital tools, they solve problems with critical thinking and creativity. Above all, they are driven to serve—ensuring their work creates meaningful impact for members and the community we support. For leadership roles, we seek individuals who think critically, embrace a future-focused mindset, and bring intentional perspective to their work —whether managing people, leading projects, or guiding teams. Our ideal candidates operate across matrix environments, applying systems thinking and evidence-based decision-making to drive sustainable results with economic discipline. We value those who lead change with courage and conviction, building trust across teams, and orchestrating both human and AI capabilities to amplify impact. Across all roles - managing direct reports, leading projects, or advancing individual expertise - they cultivate resources, strengthen capabilities, and create conditions for people and work to thrive. Above all, they are committed to building durable value—decisions and actions today that compound organizational strength tomorrow. The Senior IT Database Administrator (Senior DBA) provides consultation related to database management and administration. The Senior DBA's perform detailed data flow analysis ensuring the highest levels of efficiency in database and query design in distributed data flows. Senior DBA's administer database systems to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data. The Senior DBA is responsible for maintenance, control and testing of complex databases which provide orderly methods of data storage and controlled access to data. Senior DBA's also maintain complex query language for established database systems, design and execute backup and recovery schemes and implement disaster recovery procedures. The Senior DBA serves as a subject matter expert providing consultation to end-users and project team members on database management, query development, system requirements and database change management initiatives and providing technical guidance to other DBAs. What You Will Be Doing Deploy, configure, and maintain Snowflake instances across development, staging, and production environments Consults on database, architecture and related infrastructure technologies to all areas and levels within IT. Consults on exploiting opportunities involving multiple hardware and software systems, issue resolution, providing innovative business solutions, etc. to both internal and external customers and partners. Provides technical leadership on the implementation of leading-edge database technologies and the design and implementation of large-scale technical solutions based on business requirements. Develops and ensures compliance with all system, disaster recovery and security audit policies. Writes complex programming/scripts. Participate in disaster recovery design, testing and execution Manage databases, schemas, warehouses, users, roles, and resource monitors. Manage compute resources, storage, and cluster configurations with a focus on performance optimization Make highly complex physical changes to current databases, often this requires working after hours The Successful Candidate Will Have advanced SQL and Snowflake platform expertise Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Ansible) and automation frameworks Data backup strategies, replication across geographic zones, and disaster recovery mechanisms Data encryption, RBAC models, access control policies, and least-privilege principles Strong troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving abilities Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders Attention to detail in configuration management