Senior Azure & Snowflake Data Platform Architect (Remote)

GI Alliance; Southlake (TX); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

The Specialty Alliance is seeking a Senior Azure / Snowflake Data Platform Architect to define the target-state architecture, security model, and governance for a cloud-native enterprise data platform. You will shape environment strategy, reference patterns, and platform standards across Azure and Snowflake.

You will lead decisions on identity and access, data integration, resiliency, cost governance, observability, and platform enablement to support enterprise analytics, revenue accounting

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years in enterprise data architecture or related.
• Snowflake platform architecture, admin, security, performance optimization.
• Microsoft Azure services for enterprise data platforms.
• RBAC, SSO, least-privilege, masking, and policy-driven architecture.
• Observability, disaster recovery, replication, and operational support.
• Infrastructure-as-code, automated provisioning, CI/CD, Git workflows.
• Performance tuning, workload isolation, data-sharing, cost optimization.
• Clear communication of architecture decisions to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define the target-state architecture for TSA’s Azure and Snowflake data platform with environment strategy and reference patterns.
• Design Snowflake account, database, schema, warehouse, storage, and workload-isolation for secure multi-domain growth.
• Establish enterprise identity, access, and security architecture (RBAC, SSO, data masking, network policies).
• Define standards for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, metadata, lineage, and observability.
• Architect resilient patterns for onboarding, acquisitions, data sharing, and release management.
• Lead platform cost governance, FinOps, warehouse optimization, and usage monitoring.
• Partner to implement infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and automated provisioning for Snowflake and Azure.
• Define DR, replication, backup, failover, and business-continuity strategies.
• Support governance with data stewardship, privacy, and retention alignment.
• Provide technical leadership for enterprise initiatives (revenue accounting, analytics, AI-enabled data products).
• Mentor engineers and act as escalation point for complex decisions.

Skills

Azure services

Snowflake architecture

IAM & SSO

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Data governance

FinOps

Security governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Python

SQL

Shell scripting

Monitoring frameworks

Platform automation

Job description

The Specialty Alliance is seeking a Senior Azure / Snowflake Data Platform Architect to define the target-state architecture, security model, and governance for a cloud-native enterprise data platform. You will shape environment strategy, reference patterns, and platform standards across Azure and Snowflake.

You will lead decisions on identity and access, data integration, resiliency, cost governance, observability, and platform enablement to support enterprise analytics, revenue accounting