Snowflake Tech Lead & Architect — Platform Visionary

CEVA Logistics; Libourne; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Ceva Animal Health is seeking a Snowflake Technical Lead & Architect to shape and evolve the Group's Data Platform. You will define technical standards and oversee the Snowflake environment, collaborating with engineers, data teams and business stakeholders to ensure secure, scalable data solutions.

The role combines hands-on architecture with strategic planning, focusing on performance, security and cost management in a multinational cloud data landscape.

Qualifications

• Higher education degree in Computer Science, Data, or a related field.
• 5 to 10 years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Architecture or Data Platform Architecture.
• Strong expertise in Snowflake and modern Data Architectures.
• Solid knowledge of data modelling, ingestion and transformation.
• Hands-on architect with a strong interest in development and technical topics.
• Technical leadership, agility, pragmatism and an affinity for building and evolving environments.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Define the target Data Platform architecture and contribute to its technology roadmap.
• Support key technical decisions related to the evolution of the Snowflake environment.
• Contribute to the Group’s Data & AI strategy.
• Design the architecture of the platform, data layers and BI capabilities (reporting tools and capabilities).
• Define architectural models and patterns adapted to different use cases.
• Contribute to the development and industrialisation of platform components.
• Design data flows (ingestion, transformation, exposure).
• Ensure the security, integrity and compliance of the Data Platform.
• Implement secure data access models.
• Define and promote technical and data modelling standards.
• Optimise platform performance and data processing workloads.
• Drive cost optimisation and usage management initiatives within the Snowflake environment.
• Integrate relevant technological developments to enhance platform capabilities.
• Support Data Engineering teams in technical and architectural decision-making.
• Promote standards and best practices across the organisation.
• Work closely with business and technical teams to align the architecture with business needs.

Skills

Snowflake expertise

Data architecture

Data modeling

Team leadership

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Snowflake

Job description

Ceva Animal Health is seeking a Snowflake Technical Lead & Architect to shape and evolve the Group's Data Platform. You will define technical standards and oversee the Snowflake environment, collaborating with engineers, data teams and business stakeholders to ensure secure, scalable data solutions.

The role combines hands-on architecture with strategic planning, focusing on performance, security and cost management in a multinational cloud data landscape.