Snowflake Architect

Snowflake Architect

Dallas, Texas, United States

About the Job

We are seeking an experienced snowflake architect to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of snowflake data platform. The ideal candidate will be responsible for crafting robust, scalable data architecture solutions that support advanced analytics, data warehousing and real time data processing initiatives across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, capable of explaining technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A self-starter with a growth mindset and the ability to adapt in a fast-paced environment
• Strong interpersonal skills to foster collaboration with diverse teams
• Architect and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions on Snowflake platform
• Understand business challenges, data requirements and current technology ecosystems
• Develop and enforce data architecture best practices including data modeling, ELT/ETL pipelines and data governance
• Understand the concepts of data marts and its usage across enterprise
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Design end-to-end pipelines, ensuring seamless integration with snowflake
• Optimize snowflake solutions for cost efficiency, performance, and reliability
• Lead technical engagements, collaborating with internal teams and client stakeholders
• Guide data engineers, analyst, and developers in implementing best practices on snowflake
• Establish and enforce governance, security, and compliance standards within snowflake environments
• 5+ years of experience in data architecture or data engineering roles
• At least 3 years of hands-on experience with snowflake.
• Proven track record of designing and implementing large-scale data solutions across industries
• Experience working in consulting or client facing roles, particularly with D&A or enterprise customers
• Deep understanding of modern data architecture principles, including cloud platform AWS
• Expert knowledge of snowflake architecture, including data sharing, performance optimization and data security
• Experience integrating snowflake with BI/Visualization platform like Tableau or Business Objects or Crystal Reports
• Hands on experience with data modeling, schema design and ELT pipeline development
• Understanding of cloud-native services for data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration (e.g., AWS services)
• Collaborate with security and infrastructure teams to integrate snowflake with SIEM solution for real-time monitoring, alerting and compliance reporting
• Experience integrating snowflake with SIEM platforms such as AWS
• Experienced design data pipelines that securely ingest security logs and audit data from snowflake into centralized SIEM platforms
• Experience in designing high performance data extraction process using Teradata to snowflake
• Experience in leverage amazon S3 as an intermediate staging layer for seamless data transfer and scalability

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