Senior Data Platform Architect: Snowflake & AI in Riyadh

Space Recruitment International; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 520,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

Space Recruitment International seeks a Senior Architect to own the end-to-end design of a data platform in Riyadh. You will shape the architecture from Snowflake strategies to data ingestion, modeling, and AI/ML production use cases.

You will lead critical design discussions with C-level stakeholders, ensuring governance and scalable solutions while collaborating with a strong on-site team of architects.

Qualifications

• Snowflake mastery including warehouse sizing, security models, RBAC, Snowpark, semantic views.
• Deep real-world data architecture experience (dimensional modelling, data lake patterns, DWH, ELT).
• Production ML experience: feature pipelines, MLOps, governance on data platforms.
• Strong stakeholder-facing presence, capable of guiding design with C-levels.
• Fluent English required; Arabic is a bonus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform vision and defend the target architecture across the full stack.
• Lead design workshops with business and IT leadership; own the design authority.
• Build at scale with dimensional modelling, data lake design, ELT, and migrations in production.
• Design ML feature pipelines, MLOps workflows, and governance atop the data warehouse.
• Collaborate with on-site European architects to deliver enterprise-ready solutions.

Skills

Snowflake mastery

Data architecture depth

AI/ML in production

Customer-facing gravitas

Fluent English

Job description

Space Recruitment International seeks a Senior Architect to own the end-to-end design of a data platform in Riyadh. You will shape the architecture from Snowflake strategies to data ingestion, modeling, and AI/ML production use cases.

You will lead critical design discussions with C-level stakeholders, ensuring governance and scalable solutions while collaborating with a strong on-site team of architects.