Snowflake Architect

Snowflake Admin- Architect

We are seeking a Snowflake Admin- Architect who can own, design, administer, and optimize enterprise-scale Snowflake data platforms. The ideal candidate will combine hands-on Snowflake administration with data architecture, security, performance tuning, and cost optimization responsibilities.

Snowflake Architecture

• Design and implement scalable, secure Snowflake architectures for enterprise analytics and data warehousing.

• Define best practices for database design, schema strategy, clustering, and data lifecycle management.

• Lead Snowflake adoption, modernization, and migration initiatives from on-prem or cloud platforms.

Snowflake Administration

• Manage Snowflake accounts, warehouses, databases, roles, users, and resource monitors.

• Implement and manage RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) and data security policies.

• Monitor platform health, usage, and performance across environments (DEV/QA/PROD).

Performance & Cost Optimization

• Optimize virtual warehouses, query performance, clustering, and caching.

• Implement cost control strategies using resource monitors, workload isolation, and usage analysis.

• Troubleshoot long-running queries and concurrency issues.

Security & Governance

• Implement data security, masking policies, row-level and column-level security.

• Ensure compliance with enterprise security and governance standards.

• Support audits and data access reviews.

Data Integration & Cloud Ecosystem

• Work with ingestion tools such as Fivetran, Informatica, Talend, Airflow, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory.

• Integrate Snowflake with AWS / Azure / GCP cloud services.

• Support CI/CD pipelines and version control for Snowflake objects.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a technical lead and advisor to data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders.

• Define Snowflake standards, documentation, and operating procedures.

• Mentor teams on Snowflake best practices and architecture patterns.