Senior Data Architect - Snowflake/Databricks, Remote

Software Mind; Warszawa; Remote; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and remote cooperation

International projects with leading全球

Travel related to international projek

Language classes

Knowledge-sharing initiatives

Private healthcare and life insurance

Multisport card

Job summary

Software Mind is actively seeking a senior Data Architect to lead architectural design across data platforms for diverse clients. You will evaluate current landscapes, choose cloud and on-prem solutions, and shape lakehouse and data lake architectures for analytics and AI readiness.

You will collaborate with sales on technical proposals, deliver PoCs, and guide delivery teams while ensuring governance, security, and performance considerations are embedded in every project.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data engineering or data architecture, including at least 3 years in an architect role.
• Hands-on experience designing and delivering solutions on Snowflake and Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Spark): expert level in at least one, working knowledge of the other.
• Experience with at least one major cloud (Azure, AWS or GCP) and its data services.
• Strong data modeling skills (Kimball, Data Vault, 3NF).
• Strong SQL and good Python.

Responsibilities

• Assess the client’s current data landscape and design target-state architectures (cloud, hybrid, on‑prem) aligned with their business goals.
• Select technologies based on the client’s needs, constraints and existing stack, with Snowflake and Databricks as our core platforms.
• Design lakehouse, warehouse and data lake architectures, including ingestion, ETL/ELT pipelines, CDC, streaming and API integrations.
• Design data models (conceptual, logical, physical) using Kimball, Data Vault or 3NF, as well as semantic layers for BI and AI.
• Define security (IAM, encryption, masking, row‑level security), HA/DR, performance and cost optimization.

Skills

Data engineering

Data architecture

Snowflake

Databricks

SQL

Python

Airflow

dbt

Azure

AWS

GCP

Spark

Unity Catalog

Tools

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Spark

Airflow

dbt

Azure Data Factory

Job description

Software Mind is actively seeking a senior Data Architect to lead architectural design across data platforms for diverse clients. You will evaluate current landscapes, choose cloud and on-prem solutions, and shape lakehouse and data lake architectures for analytics and AI readiness.

You will collaborate with sales on technical proposals, deliver PoCs, and guide delivery teams while ensuring governance, security, and performance considerations are embedded in every project.