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Data Architect - Talent Pipeline

BlueCloud· BlueCloud (Talent Pipeline)
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Hybrid (Onshore & Remote)$0Bench hiringPosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior data architect role focusing on assessment, design, and modernization of enterprise data platforms with emphasis on Snowflake, architecture leadership, hands-on platform work, and client engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture, assessment, and modernization of enterprise Snowflake data platforms.
  • Define current-state and target-state architectures across data ingestion, transformation, storage, orchestration, governance, security, and consumption.
  • Lead inventories and assessments of Python-, SQL-, and stored-procedure-based pipelines, classifying workloads by business criticality, frequency, volume, runtime, reliability, and cost.
  • Analyze Snowflake usage telemetry to establish cost and performance baselines across pipelines, warehouses, and workloads.
  • Identify architectural and engineering anti-patterns and recommend modernization strategies.
  • Design scalable data models, governed data domains, semantic layers, and context models for analytics and AI use cases.
  • Architect Snowflake Cortex solutions using Cortex Analyst, Cortex Search, and Cortex LLM functions.
  • Establish architectural standards for security, access control, data governance, lineage, observability, performance, resilience, and business continuity.
  • Design data lakehouse and real-time data-processing architectures across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Evaluate and recommend use of Snowflake Iceberg Tables and other open data patterns.
  • Build and maintain backlogs and roadmaps prioritizing business impact, risk, cost, performance, and effort.
  • Provide technical leadership across projects and guide multidisciplinary teams.
  • Support project planning, estimation, scope definition, dependency management, risk mitigation, and governance.
  • Lead discovery workshops and interviews with client stakeholders.
  • Present architecture decisions and roadmaps to technical and executive audiences.
  • Act as trusted advisor to clients during engagements.
  • Create and maintain architecture diagrams, decision records, standards, and documentation.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, or a comparable senior technical role.
  • At least 2–4 years of deep Snowflake architecture and implementation experience.
  • Proven experience designing and modernizing enterprise-scale Snowflake data platforms.
  • Strong knowledge of Snowflake environment design, security, governance, data modeling, workload management, and optimization.
  • Hands-on experience with Snowflake capabilities including Snowpark, Dynamic Tables, Streams and Tasks, stored procedures, and usage views.
  • Expert-level SQL and strong Python skills.
  • Strong experience with dbt and data pipeline/orchestration tools (e.g., Fivetran, Kafka, Airflow).
  • Experience designing batch, streaming, lakehouse, and cloud-native data architectures.
  • Strong understanding of data governance, access control, lineage, data quality, and metadata management.
  • Experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Proven ability to lead discovery, assessment, architecture, and modernization engagements.
  • Experience providing technical leadership across Agile delivery teams.
  • Strong client-facing, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Ability to communicate complex concepts to engineering teams, business leaders, and executives.

Skills

Required:Snowflake architectureSQLPythondbtData governance
Nice to have:Snowflake Cortex

Benefits

  • :Competitive compensation
  • :Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • :401(k) with company match
  • :Paid time off and holidays
  • :Professional development and career growth opportunities
  • :Flexible remote/hybrid work options (onshore/remote)
Last updated Aug 5, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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