Job Description: Snowflake Architect

Position Title

Snowflake Architect

Location

Versatile / Hybrid / Remote

Experience

12+ Years of Overall Experience with 5+ Years in Snowflake Architecture and Implementation

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Snowflake Architect to lead the design, architecture, and implementation of scalable cloud-based data platforms. The ideal candidate will possess extensive expertise in Snowflake, AWS/Azure cloud services, modern data warehousing, data lake architectures, and enterprise analytics ecosystems.

This role will be responsible for defining data strategies, designing end-to-end data solutions, optimizing platform performance, ensuring data governance, and driving cloud data modernization initiatives across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Solution Design
Design and implement enterprise-scale Snowflake data platforms.
Define and implement up-to-date data architectures encompassing:
Data Lakes
Data Warehouses
Data Marts
Lakehouse architectures




Develop scalable and secure data models supporting analytics, BI, AI, and ML use cases.
Create architecture roadmaps aligned with business and technology strategies.

Cloud Data Engineering
Architect Snowflake solutions on AWS and/or Azure.
Design cloud-native data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration frameworks.
Implement ELT/ETL pipelines using up-to-date cloud technologies.
Optimize data movement across on-premise and cloud environments.

Data Platform Modernization
Lead migration of legacy data warehouses (Teradata, Oracle, SQL Server, Netezza, Redshift, Synapse, etc.) to Snowflake.
Define best practices for cloud adoption, scalability, and cost optimization.
Drive enterprise data modernization programs.

Performance & Optimization
Optimize Snowflake compute and storage utilization.
Implement clustering, partitioning, caching, workload management, and query performance tuning.
Establish monitoring, capacity planning,

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