Snowflake Data Architect - Cloud Modernization & Governance

Randstad; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad is recruiting a Data Solutions Architect to drive a high-visibility data modernization program using Snowflake-on-AWS. You will design target-state architectures across raw, curated, and business layers and lead migration of legacy pipelines to the cloud.

The role requires strong experience in data governance, RBAC security, FinOps, and data modeling in regulated environments, with a hybrid working arrangement and a competitive remuneration package.

Qualifications

• Hands-on data architecture experience with Snowflake and AWS data services.
• Background in data warehousing, dimensional modeling, and lakehouse architectures.
• Experience migrating legacy pipelines to cloud in regulated sectors such as banking/finance.
• Knowledge of data governance, RBAC, encryption, masking, and FinOps.

Responsibilities

• Designing target-state data architectures across raw, curated, and business-consumption layers using Snowflake and AWS data services.
• Migrating end-to-end migration patterns for legacy on-premises pipelines and workloads to the cloud.
• Governing data modeling standards, metadata, lineage, RBAC security, and privacy controls for banking environments.
• Optimizing Snowflake FinOps and performance engineering rules, including warehouse sizing and query optimization.
• Collaborating with engineering, security, and managed-services teams through design reviews and execution.

Skills

Snowflake

AWS Data Services

Data Architect

Solution Architect

On-Premises to Cloud Migration

Data Modernization

Snowpipe

Streams & Tasks

Data Warehousing

Lakehouse

Dimensional Modeling

ELT/ETL

Data Governance

Data Lineage

FinOps

Education

Bachelor Degree

Job description

Randstad is recruiting a Data Solutions Architect to drive a high-visibility data modernization program using Snowflake-on-AWS. You will design target-state architectures across raw, curated, and business layers and lead migration of legacy pipelines to the cloud.

The role requires strong experience in data governance, RBAC security, FinOps, and data modeling in regulated environments, with a hybrid working arrangement and a competitive remuneration package.