Snowflake Data Architect

Empiric; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 1,100,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Empiric is seeking a senior Snowflake Data Architect to lead the design, implementation and optimization of a modern enterprise data platform for a leading banking organisation. This hands-on role requires deep Snowflake expertise, strong stakeholder management and prior experience delivering regulated financial data initiatives.

You will own architecture decisions, collaborate with data engineers, risk, compliance and technology teams, and help establish platform standards, governance and best

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data architecture, warehousing or engineering.
• 3+ years hands-on Snowflake architecture experience.
• Strong Snowflake knowledge: warehouses, Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, data sharing and access controls.
• Advanced SQL, data modelling and ELT/ETL.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design and implementation of enterprise Snowflake solutions.
• Define platform standards, patterns and best practices.
• Design scalable data models and transformation frameworks for analytics and regulatory reporting.
• Architect ELT/ETL pipelines and integration with upstream/downstream systems.
• Support migration of legacy/on-premise platforms to Snowflake.
• Establish data governance, quality, lineage, security and access controls.
• Optimize queries, warehouses and cloud consumption.
• Collaborate with business, risk, compliance and technology stakeholders.
• Introduce CI/CD and DevOps practices for the data platform.
• Provide architectural leadership and mentoring to engineering teams.

Skills

Snowflake arch

SQL

Data modelling

ELT/ETL

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Stakeholder mgmt

Regulatory reporting

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Empiric is working with a leading banking organisation seeking an experienced Snowflake Data Architect to lead the design, implementation and optimisation of a modern enterprise data platform.

This is a senior, hands-on architectural position requiring deep Snowflake expertise, strong stakeholder-management skills and previous experience delivering data-platform initiatives within a regulated financial environment.

The successful consultant will take ownership of key architecture decisions while working closely with data engineers, business stakeholders, risk, compliance and technology teams.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture, design and implementation of enterprise-scale Snowflake solutions.
• Define platform standards, architectural patterns and engineering best practices.
• Design scalable data models and transformation frameworks for analytical and regulatory reporting.
• Architect ELT/ETL pipelines and integration frameworks connecting Snowflake with upstream and downstream systems.
• Support the migration of legacy and on-premise data platforms into Snowflake.
• Establish appropriate data governance, quality, lineage, security and access controls.
• Optimize Snowflake queries, virtual warehouses, platform performance and cloud consumption.
• Collaborate with business, data, risk, compliance and technology stakeholders.
• Introduce CI/CD and DevOps practices across the data platform.
• Provide architectural leadership and mentoring to engineering teams.

Required experience:

• At least 10 years’ experience across data architecture, data warehousing or data engineering.
• At least three years of hands-on Snowflake architecture experience.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake architecture, virtual warehouses, Snowpipe, Streams and Tasks, data sharing and access controls.
• Advanced SQL, data modelling and ELT/ETL experience.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake performance and cost optimization.
• Experience with Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.
• Experience implementing CI/CD and DevOps practices for data platforms.
• Previous delivery experience within banking, financial services or insurance.
• Knowledge of data governance, risk, compliance, security and regulatory reporting.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management capabilities.

Language requirements:

• Professional fluency in English.
• Intermediate or higher Swedish, including the ability to participate in meetings and read and write in Swedish.

Location:

Stockholm, Sweden - fully onsite