Lead Snowflake Architect for Trading Risk Platform

Energy Jobline ZR; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

iSphere is seeking a Lead Data Engineer / Snowflake Data Architect for a long‑term hybrid role in Houston, TX. You will own the Snowflake platform for Trading Risk, design reusable patterns, ensure security, governance, and cost optimization, and work across ingestion, transformation, CI/CD, and data publishing.

Experience in RBAC, enterprise data architecture, and performance tuning is required, with ability to explain architecture decisions to both technical and business audiences.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Snowflake experience.
• Enterprise data architecture experience.
• Data modeling and warehouse/lakehouse design.
• Snowflake performance tuning and cost optimization.
• RBAC, roles, security groups, authorization, and access controls.
• Experience designing ingestion, transformation, and publishing patterns.
• Data governance, metadata management, semantic modeling, and ontology concepts.
• CI/CD, version control, automated testing, and DataOps.
• AWS experience including S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, EMR, and Redshift.
• Experience working with Trading Risk data.
• Ability to explain architecture decisions to technical and business people without making either group want to leave the room.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Snowflake platform architecture across data engineering, security, governance, ingestion, transformation, and publishing.
• Drive performance tuning and cost optimization to keep platform scalable and affordable.
• Define RBAC, security groups, and access controls; manage enterprise data security posture.
• Collaborate on data modeling, metadata management, and semantic modeling for governance.

Skills

Snowflake

Data architecture

Data modeling

Performance tuning

RBAC / security

Ingestion patterns

CI/CD / DataOps

AWS (S3)

Trading Risk data

Job description

iSphere is seeking a Lead Data Engineer / Snowflake Data Architect for a long‑term hybrid role in Houston, TX. You will own the Snowflake platform for Trading Risk, design reusable patterns, ensure security, governance, and cost optimization, and work across ingestion, transformation, CI/CD, and data publishing.

Experience in RBAC, enterprise data architecture, and performance tuning is required, with ability to explain architecture decisions to both technical and business audiences.