Lead Snowflake Data Architect & PM for Federal Programs

Peraton; United States; On-site; USD 104,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton, a leading national security company, seeks a Lead Snowflake Data Architect & Administrator to design enterprise Snowflake solutions across multi‑cloud environments and manage a team of admins and data engineers. The role combines strategy with hands‑on governance, access control, and cost optimization.

Responsibilities include platform administration, security, performance tuning, and end‑to‑end delivery for Federal/Public Sector clients, plus serving as Product Owner for the scrum

Qualifications

• 12+ years in data architecture and warehousing with Snowflake administration.
• Deep Snowflake knowledge: storage, compute, time travel, cloning.
• Cloud experience in AWS and Azure; familiarity with Redshift/Oracle.
• Proven leadership of technical teams and stakeholder management.
• Strong SQL skills for complex analytics and performance tuning.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Architect Snowflake platform solutions across multi‑cloud environments.
• Administer Snowflake environments and manage database lifecycles.
• Lead a team of Snowflake admins and data engineers; mentor staff.
• Deliver Data Cloud projects for Federal/Public Sector clients.
• Implement RBAC, access control, and cost optimization strategies.
• Partner with engineers to troubleshoot access and integrate ETL/BI.
• Act as Product Owner for the scrum team and align backlogs with KR.

Skills

Data architecture

Snowflake administration

SQL

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Azure

Redshift

Oracle

Job description

Peraton, a leading national security company, seeks a Lead Snowflake Data Architect & Administrator to design enterprise Snowflake solutions across multi‑cloud environments and manage a team of admins and data engineers. The role combines strategy with hands‑on governance, access control, and cost optimization.

Responsibilities include platform administration, security, performance tuning, and end‑to‑end delivery for Federal/Public Sector clients, plus serving as Product Owner for the scrum