Key Responsibilities

- Lead the technical review of Snowflake infrastructure SAP integration pipelines and the bronze/raw ingestion layer.
- Assess identity federation and security models across Snowflake and Azure and define target-state access patterns.
- Evaluate architectural options for native cross-cloud consumption including Azure-native access and Apache Iceberg feasibility.
- Recommend ingestion tooling and standards for the silver-layer conformance pipelines.
- Support the reference-pattern build with h ands-on platform configuration guidance (not implementation) for the pilot domain(s).
- Ingestion mechanics: Snowpipe / Snowpipe Streaming, Kafka connector, batch vs. streaming trade-offs for bronze-layer loading
- Performance/cost: clustering keys, search optimization service, query acceleration service, warehouse auto-suspend/scaling policy design
- Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Event Hubs needs working knowledge of where these compete with vs. complement Snowflake
- Cost and latency implications of Azure-native access to Snowflake-managed data vs. direct Snowflake consumption
- Iceberg internals: metadata layer, catalog options (Snowflake Open Catalog/Polaris, AWS Glue, Nessie)




- Multi-engine read/write patterns — Spark, Trino, Snowflake all reading the same Iceberg tables — since the whole point of adopting Iceberg is avoiding vendor lock-in for select gold products
- External volumes and storage integration configuration
- Infrastructure-as-code for Snowflake (Terraform provider, schema change or similar)
- CI/CD pipeline design for data pipeline deployments

Required Experience & Skills

- 10+ years in cloud data platform architecture with deep current h ands-on Snowflake expertise (performance security data sharing and platform administration).
- Working expertise in Azure-native data services and identity (Entra ID/Azure AD) integration patterns.
- Practical exposure to Apache Iceberg or other open table formats in a production or responsible pilot context.
- Experience assessing SAP-to-cloud integration pipelines from a platform (not functional/SAP-module) perspective.

Qualifications & Certifications (preferred)

- SnowPro Core and/or SnowPro Advanced certifications.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (or equivalent).

📌 Cloud & Platform Architect (Snowflake / Azure) (Chennai)
🏢 Ciliconchip
📍 Chennai