Data Architect (Snowflake)

NextRow Digital

$100K — $140K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in data engineering or related fields such as business intelligence and analytics.
  • 4+ years in architecture for commercial-scale data pipelines.
  • Ability to thrive in dynamic environments and tackle ambiguity with tenacity.
  • Proven experience in designing and building scalable data pipelines for business decision-making.
  • Familiarity with cloud services, particularly Amazon AWS.
  • Proficiency with BI tools like Tableau, PowerBI, and Looker.
  • Experience with data warehousing platforms and pipeline tools such as Redshift and Snowflake.
  • Strong analytical skills with a focus on detail and accuracy.

Responsibilities

  • Provide expert guidance to ensure project alignment with target state architecture.
  • Define and develop concepts and standards for enterprise data architecture.
  • Gather requirements through collaboration with business stakeholders in agile settings.
  • Write detailed requirements for ETL and BI developers.
  • Design architectural solutions for data warehouses, data lakes, or end-to-end pipelines.
  • Prioritize intake, conduct cost/benefit analysis, and make informed decisions across diverse stakeholders.
  • Design or approve data models to illustrate Client technology activities and their business impacts.
  • Oversee the design and deployment of end-to-end data pipelines, assessing security and architecture.
  • Automate executive-level reporting to align with company initiatives and investment strategies.
  • Create self-service reporting capabilities using a data lake for internal projects.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance plans including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Flexible work arrangements with options for remote work.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.
  • Access to training programs and workshops for skill development.
  • Supportive work culture that promotes collaboration and innovation.
Full Job Description
Job Description
- Provides expert guidance to projects to ensure that their processes and deliverables align with the Client target state architecture.

- Defines & develops enterprise data architecture concepts and standards leveraging leading architecture practices and advanced data technologies.

- Requirements gathering with business stakeholders, domain: agile team work, people data, and hierarchies of project portfolio work

- Ability to write requirements for ETL and BI developers

- Ability to write designs for data architecture of data warehouse or data lake solutions or end to end pipelines

- Expert in data architecture principles, distributed computing knowhow

- Intake prioritization, cost/benefit analysis, decision making of what to pursue across a wide base of users/stakeholders and across products, databases and services,

- Design or approve data models that provide a full view of what the Client technology teams are working on and the business impact they are having.

- End to end data pipeline design, security review, architecture and deployment overview

- Automate reporting views used by management and executives to decide where to invest the organization's time and resources, and stay up to date on key company initiatives and products

- Create self-service reporting including a data lake for Client's internal projects and resources

- Design for comprehensive data quality management tooling.

QUALIFICATIONS:

- 6+ years of experience within the field of data engineering or related technical work including business intelligence, analytics

- 4+ years of experience in architecture for commercial scale data pipelines

- Experience and comfort solving problems in an ambiguous environment where there is constant change. Have the tenacity to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, inspire change, and collaborate with a variety of individuals and organizational partners

- Experience designing and building scalable and robust data pipelines to enable data-driven decisions for the business

- Exposure to Amazon AWS or another cloud provider

- Experience with Business Intelligence tools such as Tableau, ThoughtSpot, PowerBI and/or Looker

- Familiarity with data warehousing platforms and data pipeline tools such as Redshift, Snowflake, SQL Server, etc.

- Passionate about programming and learning new technologies; focused on helping yourself and the team improve skills

- Effective problem solving and analytical skills. Ability to manage multiple projects and report simultaneously across different stakeholders

- Rigorous attention to detail and accuracy

- Aware of and motivated by driving business value

- Experience with large scale enterprise applications using big data open-source solutions such as Spark, Kafka, Elastic Search / Solr and Hadoop, HBase

- Experience or knowledge of basic programming and DB's technologies (SQL, Python, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora, AWS RDS , MongoDB, Redis, Couchbase, Oracle, MySQL, Teradata)

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Finance, a related quantitative field

- Advance CS degree is a plus knowledge and experience

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