Snowflake Data Architect

Role: Snowflake Data Architect

Location: Markham Ontario CA

Hire Type: Contract

Job Description:

Primary Skills

• Architect and implement advanced data solutions using Snowflake on AWS ensuring scalable secure and highperformance data environments
• Extensive experience 8 years in data architecture and engineering with a proven track record in largescale data transformation programs ideally in insurance or financial services
• Proven experience in architecting and implementing advanced data solutions using Snowflake on AWS
• Expertise in design and orchestrating data acquisition pipelines using AWS Glue for ETLELT Snowflake OpenFlow and Apache Airflow for workflow automation enabling seamless ingestion of different data from diverse sources
• Deep expertise in Snowflake with hands on experience delivering Snowflake as an enterprise capability
• Handson experience with AWS Glue for ETLELT Apache Airflow for orchestration and dbt for transformation preferably deployed on AWS ECS
• Proficiency in SQL data modelling ETLELT processes
• Proven experience in DBT to manage and automate complex data transformations within Snowflake ensuring modular testable and versioncontrolled transformation logic
• Experience in implementing the lake house solution Medallion architecture for financial or insurance carriers
• Experience in optimizing and tune Snowflake environments for performance cost and scalability including query optimization and resource management
• Experience in architecting lead migration of workloads from Cloudera to Snowflake
• Experience in evaluating the data technology platform including data governance suites data security products
• Develop robust data models and data pipelines to support data transformation integrating multiple data sources and ensuring data quality and integrity
• Document architecture data flows and transformation logic to ensure transparency maintainability and knowledge sharing across teams
• Strong knowledge of data lifecycle mgmt. data retention data modelling and working knowledge of cloud computing and modern development practices

Secondary Skills

• Familiarity with data mesh principles data product delivery and modern data warehousing paradigms
• Experience in Designing Streamlit apps and define new capabilities and data products leveraging snowflake ML and MLOPS capabilities
• SnowPro advanced certification preferred
• Knowledge of scripting languages Python Java
• Experience with data governance metadata management and data quality frameworks eg Collibra Informatica
• Experience in Insurance Domain
• Experience in converting policy data conversion from legacy to modern platform
• Exposure to enterprise Datawarehouse solution like Cloudera AWS Redshift and informatica tool sets IDMC PowerCenter BDM