Snowflake-on-AWS Data Solution Architect

E2E Project Excellence; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

E2E Project Excellence is seeking an experienced Data Solution Architect to lead a major data modernisation initiative, migrating on-premises platforms to Snowflake on AWS. The role focuses on defining target-state architecture and delivering scalable, secure, and governed data solutions within a complex enterprise environment.

The candidate will translate high-level requirements into end-to-end designs, collaborating with architecture, engineering, security, governance, and business teams to

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Data Architect or Data Solution Architect in enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on architecture expertise with Snowflake.
• Deep understanding of AWS data services, data warehousing, lakehouse architectures, ETL/ELT, and enterprise data modelling.
• Experience delivering cloud migration and data modernisation initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, metadata, lineage, security, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience designing highly scalable, secure, and production-ready data platforms.
• Knowledge of DataOps, CI/CD, monitoring, and automated deployment practices.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills with the ability to work across business and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess current-state data environments, source systems, interfaces, and dependencies.
• Define target-state data architecture across Snowflake and AWS.
• Design data ingestion, transformation, storage, modelling, and consumption frameworks.
• Develop architecture patterns for batch, incremental, and near real-time data processing.
• Provide technical leadership across Snowflake architecture, including databases, schemas, warehouses, Snowpipe, Streams, and Tasks.
• Guide migration and modernisation initiatives from on-premises platforms to cloud-based solutions.
• Establish data governance, quality, lineage, metadata, and security standards.
• Define architecture principles covering scalability, resilience, performance, observability, and cost optimisation.
• Produce architecture artefacts including solution designs, data flow diagrams, standards, and architecture decision records.
• Provide architecture governance and design assurance throughout delivery and transition to support teams.

Skills

Data architecture

Snowflake

AWS data services

Data governance

Data modelling

CI/CD

DataOps

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Snowflake platform

AWS services

Job description

E2E Project Excellence is seeking an experienced Data Solution Architect to lead a major data modernisation initiative, migrating on-premises platforms to Snowflake on AWS. The role focuses on defining target-state architecture and delivering scalable, secure, and governed data solutions within a complex enterprise environment.

The candidate will translate high-level requirements into end-to-end designs, collaborating with architecture, engineering, security, governance, and business teams to