Lead Snowflake & Data Platform Architect

KData Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

KData Inc. is seeking a Senior Snowflake / Data Platform Architect to design, build, and optimize a modern data platform on Snowflake and AWS.

You will drive architecture decisions, performance tuning, FinOps, security, governance, and automation to empower secure data delivery across the enterprise. You will establish CI/CD and GitOps practices, implement IaC with Terraform, and manage data pipelines with Airflow, NiFi, Kafka, and dbt, enabling seamless access for analytics tools such as Power

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in Data Engineering/Architecture with lead/senior responsibilities.
• Deep hands-on Snowflake expertise including virtual warehouses, secure data sharing and RBAC.
• Strong AWS knowledge focusing on S3, IAM, compute and networking/security fundamentals.
• Experience with Terraform, GitHub, CI/CD and GitOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and optimize enterprise-grade data platform solutions using Snowflake and AWS.
• Establish standards, patterns, and best practices for modern data modeling, scalability and reliability.
• Monitor, tune Snowflake compute and query performance; implement FinOps for cloud costs.

Skills

Data Platform Architecture

Cloud Data Engineering

FinOps

Governance & RBAC

DevOps & IaC

Data Modeling

Streaming Data

BI Integration

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Terraform

GitHub

CI/CD

GitOps

dbt

Apache Airflow

Apache NiFi

Apache Kafka

Power BI

S3

Job description

KData Inc. is seeking a Senior Snowflake / Data Platform Architect to design, build, and optimize a modern data platform on Snowflake and AWS.

You will drive architecture decisions, performance tuning, FinOps, security, governance, and automation to empower secure data delivery across the enterprise. You will establish CI/CD and GitOps practices, implement IaC with Terraform, and manage data pipelines with Airflow, NiFi, Kafka, and dbt, enabling seamless access for analytics tools such as Power