Senior DBA, Data Platform

The Core AI BI & Data Platforms Team has been established to create, operate and run the Enterprise AI, BI and Data that facilitate the time to market for reporting, analytics and data science teams to run experiments, train models and generate insights as well as evolve and run the CoCounsel application and its shared capability of CoCounsel AI Assistant.
The Enterprise Data Platform aims to provide self service capabilities for fast and secure ingestion and consumption of data across Thomson Reuters. The Data Platform team in Bangalore is seeking an experienced Senior DBA with a passion for engineering cloud-based data platform systems.
Join our dynamic team as a Senior Snowflake Database Administrator (DBA) to oversee and enhance the data infrastructure on our Enterprise Data Platform. In this role, you will leverage your Snowflake expertise to ensure the performance, scalability, and security of our data solutions. You will collaborate with data engineers, architects, and business teams to maintain data integrity, optimize storage and compute resources, and support our growing data-driven initiatives.

About the Role

In this opportunity as the Senior DBA, you will:       

• Administer and optimize Snowflake databases on the Data Platform, ensuring high performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Implement and enforce best practices for Snowflake usage, including data partitioning, clustering, and storage optimization.
• Collaborate with data engineers to design efficient ETL/ELT processes, data pipelines, and integrations to support data ingestion and transformation.
• Manage and monitor data security, including role-based access controls (RBAC), data masking, and encryption to protect sensitive data and comply with regulatory requirements.
• Develop automation scripts in SQL / Python for monitoring, maintenance, and backup/recovery to ensure data availability and reliability.
• Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, slow-running queries, and other Snowflake issues, implementing solutions to enhance query efficiency.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and deployments on the Data Platform by working closely with DevOps and Data Engineering teams to ensure smooth operations.
• Provide strategic insights for resource and cost optimization within the Snowflake environment, Analysing usage patterns and recommending changes as needed.

About You

You're a fit for the role of DBA, if you meet all or most of these criteria:

• 5+ years of experience in Database Administration with a focus on cloud-based data warehousing and data platform support.
• In-depth expertise in Snowflake architecture and management, including experience with virtual warehouses, partitioning, clustering, and query tuning.
• Strong SQL skills for complex queries, data manipulation, and Snowflake optimization.
• Proficiency in Python (or similar scripting languages) for automation and process orchestration.
• Experience with data security best practices in Snowflake, including RBAC, encryption, and data masking techniques.
• Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and their integration with Snowflake.
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices and experience supporting automated deployment processes for data workflows.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to managing and resolving platform issues.

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What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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