Senior Cloud Data Architect - Azure, Snowflake & Databricks

Tiger Analytics; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Tiger Analytics in the United States seeks a Senior Solution Architect with 15+ years of IT experience and 10+ years in data architecture to lead enterprise data and analytics initiatives. You will design cloud-native EDW solutions using Azure, Snowflake, and Databricks, and translate business requirements into scalable architectures.

You will guide cross-functional teams, define data pipelines, security, governance standards, and ensure alignment with enterprise frameworks.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of overall IT experience
• 10+ years in data architecture, solution architecture, or related roles
• Strong hands-on architecture experience with Azure, Snowflake, and Databricks
• Strong understanding of Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) architecture and modern cloud data architectures
• Strong knowledge of data modeling principles (dimensional, relational, enterprise)
• Experience designing data pipelines, data integration, and transformation solutions
• Understanding of data security, governance, privacy, metadata, and compliance
• Experience assessing legacy data platforms and architectures and defining modernized future-state solutions
• Proven experience designing end-to-end enterprise data ecosystems
• Experience in solution architecture, technical consulting, and architectural advisory services

Responsibilities

• Design and define enterprise-scale Data & Analytics architectures leveraging Azure, Snowflake, and Databricks.
• Assess diverse legacy data platforms and define scalable future-state architectures.
• Develop end-to-end data ecosystem architectures covering ingestion, integration, transformation, storage, analytics, and consumption.
• Apply EDW architecture and data modeling principles to design scalable platforms.
• Define data pipelines and transformation architectures using modern cloud data engineering technologies.
• Establish and enforce data security, governance, privacy, and compliance standards.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise frameworks, standards, and client guidelines.
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into architectural solutions.
• Lead architecture discussions with clients, partners, vendors, and internal teams.
• Drive architecture reviews and governance processes; promote reusable frameworks and modernization opportunities.
• Provide technical leadership across globally distributed teams.

Skills

Azure

Snowflake

Databricks

EDW architecture

Data modeling

Data pipelines

Data security

Governance

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Job description

Tiger Analytics in the United States seeks a Senior Solution Architect with 15+ years of IT experience and 10+ years in data architecture to lead enterprise data and analytics initiatives. You will design cloud-native EDW solutions using Azure, Snowflake, and Databricks, and translate business requirements into scalable architectures.

You will guide cross-functional teams, define data pipelines, security, governance standards, and ensure alignment with enterprise frameworks.