Remote Senior Snowflake & AWS Data Platform Architect

KData AI; United States; Remote; CAD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

KData AI seeks a Senior Snowflake / Data Platform Architect to lead design, build, and optimization of a modern data platform leveraging Snowflake and AWS. You will drive performance tuning, FinOps, security governance, and automation, enabling secure, scalable data delivery across the enterprise.

You will establish CI/CD and GitOps best practices, manage data integration, and ensure robust data observability for analytics tools such as Power BI.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in Data Engineering / Architecture with lead or senior architect focus.
• Snowflake expertise with advanced, hands-on mastery (Virtual Warehouses, Secure Data Sharing, Dynamic Data Masking, RBAC, Time Travel, micro-partitioning).
• Strong AWS experience focusing on S3, IAM, compute, and networking/security.
• Terraform, GitHub, CI/CD automation, and GitOps methodologies.
• dbt for transformation/modeling with Airflow and NiFi orchestration.
• Real-time streaming with Kafka; BI integration with Power BI.
• Governance/FinOps mindset with RBAC enforcement and observability.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and optimize enterprise data platform solutions on Snowflake and AWS.
• Establish architectural standards, patterns, and best practices for data modeling, scalability, and reliability.
• Monitor and optimize Snowflake compute, warehouse configurations, and overall FinOps.
• Define and enforce governance strategies including RBAC, masking, data sharing, and secure sharing.
• Implement platform observability and logging for data quality and pipeline health.
• Lead IaC and DevOps with Terraform; drive CI/CD and GitOps via GitHub.
• Oversee batch and real-time pipelines with Airflow, NiFi, Kafka, and dbt.
• Enable seamless data access for analytics tools like Power BI.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud architecture

Cost governance

RBAC enforcement

Tools

Snowflake

Terraform

GitHub

dbt

Apache Airflow

Apache NiFi

Kafka

Power BI

Job description

KData AI seeks a Senior Snowflake / Data Platform Architect to lead design, build, and optimization of a modern data platform leveraging Snowflake and AWS. You will drive performance tuning, FinOps, security governance, and automation, enabling secure, scalable data delivery across the enterprise.

You will establish CI/CD and GitOps best practices, manage data integration, and ensure robust data observability for analytics tools such as Power BI.