Snowflake Architect

Role Description

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 will collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, digital applications, and Insights & Analytics teams as well as internal stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and external customers and vendors.

• 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

Qualifications

• 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 situations

Requirements

• At least 13+ years of experience

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