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Here, you’ll work with ambitious, high-performing teams built on integrity, candor and collaboration, backed by our market-leading data and technology. We invest heavily in our people and our partners, giving you the platform to enrich lives, safeguard futures and grow your career. \nWhat We Do\nAs one of the largest private markets investment firms globally, we provide innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world, specializing in flexibility and full-spectrum access. We currently employ approximately 800 professionals operating in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East, and have $1.0 trillion in assets under management and supervision, composed of $146.1 billion in discretionary assets and $871.5 billion in non-discretionary assets, as of December 31, 2025.\nThe Opportunity:\nThis role will engage across a full featured data process where disparate data sources are collected, collated and controlled to deliver direct value to internal and external technology solutions. The primary product under development, Cobalt (www.cobaltlp.com) is an industry leading diligence and analytics platform for the private markets. This opportunity is a DBA focused role to join an entrepreneurial spirited team set within a successful, supportive and innovate market leader. At Hamilton Lane, we are dedicated to delivering technology-driven solutions to our clients and your work will be directly and responsively visible.\nWe hire with the anticipation that all team members contribute across our entire technology stack. We seek skill, aptitude, drive to learn and culture fit. Your energy and drive to tackle new challenges with autonomy in a collaborative team environment will foster foundations for strong tailwinds in this mid-career position. Platform and architectural contributions, mentorship and best practice guidance, along with cross-team collaboration and communication are keys to success in this role.\nResponsibilities:\nServe as primary DBA for Snowflake and SQL Server (including Azure SQL Managed Instance and Managed Instance Pools), with capacity to extend support to other critical business systems (e.g., Tidal scheduler) as priorities evolve\nMonitor database performance, query efficiency, and resource utilization; optimize slow-running queries, warehouse configurations, and SQL Server indexing, execution plans, and instance and pool resource utilization\nManage user access, roles, and security policies in alignment with organizational compliance requirements\nEstablish and execute backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity procedures for Snowflake, SQL Server, and Managed Instance Pools\nOversee data loading processes (ELT/ETL) and job scheduling (including Tidal) and ensure data quality and integrity\nManage cost optimization through warehouse sizing, clustering strategies, Managed Instance Pool and vCore sizing, licensing, and resource allocation\nCoordinate Snowflake, SQL Server, Managed Instance Pool, and other supported platform upgrades and apply patches while minimizing downtime\nDocument database schemas, configurations, standards, and operational procedures\nProvide technical support to developers, analysts, and end users; mentor team on best practices\nMonitor and respond to system alerts and incidents across Snowflake, SQL Server, Managed Instance Pools, and supported systems; maintain uptime SLAs\nPartner with HL's Cobalt business unit to support its database, data platform, and operational needs as required\nMust-haves:\n5+ years as a Database Administrator with 3+ years of hands-on experience each in Snowflake and SQL Server\nExpert knowledge of Snowflake architecture, clustering, data sharing, and security features\nStrong working knowledge of SQL Server and Azure SQL Managed Instance administration, including Managed Instance Pools (provisioning, sizing, networking, high availability, and security)\nStrong SQL and T-SQL skills and query optimization experience\nUnderstanding of cloud infrastructure and data warehouse design patterns\nExperience with backup/recovery and disaster recovery planning\nKnowledge of ETL/ELT tools, enterprise job schedulers, and data pipeline management\nFamiliarity with version control and CI/CD practices for database changes\nNice-to-haves:\nExperience with Azure SQL Database and migrating on-premises SQL Server workloads to Managed Instance Pools\nExperience with Tidal Scheduler or comparable enterprise workload automation tools\nSnowflake certification (SnowPro Core or Administrator) and/or Microsoft certification (e.g., Azure Database Administrator Associate)\nKnowledge of BI tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI)\nExperience with Python or other scripting languages for automation\nFamiliarity with data governance and metadata management tools\nExposure to financial services or private markets data environments, including HL's Cobalt business\nBenefits\nAt Hamilton Lane, our benefits philosophy is simple: to provide our employees with a competitive suite of benefits and services to help navigate through the complexities and challenges of working, living, raising a family, and eventually retiring. To do this, Hamilton Lane offers the following benefits:\nEnhancing Your Physical and Emotional Health\nEmployees have access to healthcare coverage, mental health resources, health & fitness reimbursement program, and Wellness Rewards Program.\nDeveloping Your Career\nTuition and certification reimbursement programs are available, along with continual education and development trainings for you to grow with Hamilton Lane.\nSupporting Your Family & Community\nFor our communities, Hamilton Lane provides paid time off to volunteer and compensates for referring qualified candidates that join our team.\nFor growing family, we offer an adoption reimbursement program, paid time off for new parents and newlyweds, and provide travel support for nursing parents.\nSafeguarding Your Financial Wellbeing\nHamilton Lane contributes to retirement programs and offers an employee stock purchasing plan.\nHamilton Lane is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer. 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