Description

Required Experience

Minimum Experience

•              12+ years of total experience in data architecture, data warehousing, data engineering or cloud data platforms.

•              5+ years of hands-on Snowflake architecture and delivery experience.

•              Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale Snowflake implementations.

•              Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.

•              Experience leading client-facing architecture workshops and translating business requirements into technical designs.

•              Experience with data-sharing, data governance, security, data contracts, auditability and controlled delivery governance.

Mandatory Technical Skills

•              Snowflake architecture, account setup, databases, schemas, stages, warehouses and workload isolation.

•              Snowflake Secure Data Sharing, secure views, database roles and consumer access patterns.

•              Snowflake RBAC, masking policies, row access policies, tagging, lineage and audit/usage monitoring.

•              Snowpipe or equivalent Snowflake ingestion patterns.

•              Streams, Tasks, stored procedures and incremental processing patterns.

•              SQL performance tuning and query optimization.

•              Data modeling for analytical workloads.

•              Bronze/Silver/Gold or medallion-style architecture patterns.

•              Data quality, deduplication and reconciliation design.

•              SCD Type 2, change detection and canonical change modeling.

•              AWS integration patterns, including S3/object storage, IAM, KMS, logging and network/security dependencies.

•              Monitoring and operational reporting using Snowflake and cloud/platform tooling.

•              CI/CD practices for Snowflake database objects using Git, Terraform or equivalent tooling.

Strongly Preferred Skills

•              Experience with data contracts, data governance councils, rule governance and cross-organization data stewardship.

•              Experience designing data sharing into cloud-native data-sharing patterns.

•              Experience with A/B testing, reconciliation and conversion assurance for legacy-to-modern platform migration.

•              Experience designing platforms that support delayed, incomplete or late-arriving data.

•              Experience with GenAI-assisted data engineering, code analysis or documentation acceleration with proper human review.

Certifications

Required or Strongly Preferred

•              Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification.

•              Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Architect Certification or equivalent Snowflake architecture experience.

Preferred

•              AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Data Analytics, AWS Security or equivalent cloud certification.

•              Azure or GCP data/cloud certification if candidate has multi-cloud experience.

•              Data governance, data management or security certifications are a plus.

•              Agile, SAFe or delivery/program execution certification is a plus

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree