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 Software Engineer, 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 Software Engineer, 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?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you’ll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.

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.

Social Impact:  Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

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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