Senior Snowflake Architect
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Job Summary
Location: Sydney / Melbourne
Employment Type: Contract / Permanent
Work Eligibility: PR / Citizen (No Sponsorship)
Role Overview
Senior Snowflake Architect responsible for designing enterprise-scale data platforms and driving architecture decisions. Strong client-facing experience required. Focus on Snowflake architecture and Snowpark for advanced in-warehouse processing.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end Snowflake architecture (ingestion transformation consumption)
- Design batch & streaming ingestion frameworks
- Define layered architecture (raw curated semantic)
- Architect Snowpark (Python/SQL) solutions for complex transformations data quality and custom processing
- Drive Snowflake design decisions: Snowpipe Streams Tasks Time Travel Zero-Copy Cloning
- Optimize performance (warehouse sizing clustering pruning query tuning)
- Implement security & governance (RBAC data masking access control)
- Lead client discussions architecture reviews and solution design
Required Skills
- 10 years in data engineering / architecture
- Deep expertise in Snowflake:
- Virtual Warehouses Micro-partitions Clustering
- Query performance tuning & cost optimization
- Strong hands-on with Snowpark (Python preferred)
- Experience with data modeling (Dimensional / Data Vault / Hybrid)
- Strong SQL data warehousing / lakehouse architecture
- Azure cloud experience preferred
- Strong stakeholder engagement & architecture ownership
Good to Have
- SalesforceSnowflake integrations
- MDM / data quality / deduplication use cases
- ML / analytics workloads in Snowflake
- CI/CD for data platforms
- Data governance frameworks
