Snowflake Architect

Data Architect

The Data Architect will be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and maintenance of complex data structures and applications. This role will leverage extensive knowledge and experience of data processes to align the business objectives with architectural design. This position will be held accountable for defining and managing data architecture strategy, standards, guidelines, and processes that meet strategic and tactical goals while ensuring data quality. As part of an Agile team, you collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, digital applications, and Insights & Analytics teams as well as internal stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and external customers and vendors.

In this role, we are looking for an independent self-starter who will play a key role in designing our data landscape in partnership with data engineering and product ownership. You will work across the organization to ensure that the data in our cloud data warehouse serves our enterprise strategies.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Responsible for the design of data architecture, data solutions, and any related APIs, and / or ETL, ELT processes to enable rapid delivery of business capabilities
• Work closely with IT teams, enterprise architecture, infrastructure, information security, and business stakeholders to translate business and technical strategies into data-driven solutions
• Act as a technical expert addressing problems related to system and application design, performance, integration, security, data pipelines, etc.
• Conduct research and development based on current trends and technologies related to the industry, data engineering and architecture, data security, and related topics
• Work with developers to build CI/CD pipelines, self-service build tools, and automated deployment processes
• Evaluate software products and provide documented recommendations as needed
• Provide support and troubleshooting for data platforms. Must be willing to provide escalated on-call support for complicated and/or critical incidents
• Participate in the planning process for hardware and software
• Plan and work on internal projects as needed, including legacy system replacement, monitoring and analytics improvements, tool development, and technical documentation
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring for other team members
• Manage and prioritize multiple assignments
• Other duties as assigned by the manager
• Design data models that implement the intended business model
• Develop diagrams representing key data entities and their relationships
• Develop technical diagrams depicting system designs

Supervision: The data architect is a high level individual contributor role that will partner across the organization.

Experience working on large scale enterprise data modernization projects

Experience building a product from ground up, working with business and project team to develop roadmap

Advanced understanding of Snowflake, Fivetran, DBT and related technologies

Experience implementing MDM tools, preferred

Experience leading data quality and data management practices

High degree of initiative and capacity to lead multiple priorities of significant scope in a fast-paced environment

Skillful in communicating with and influencing a wide range of internal and external stakeholders including executive leadership, employees, potential/existing customers, competitors, and business partners

Strong negotiation, organizational, presentation, writing, and verbal communication skills

Strong ability to solve problems with creative solutions

Demonstrated ability to manage adversity and challenging situation