Senior Data & AI Platform Architect

Armanino; San Ramon (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Armanino invites a senior engineering leader to architect, operate, and improve cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Fabric) and own BI delivery with Power BI or Tableau. You will set standards for reliability, security, governance, and production readiness, and you will make architecture calls independently.

This role demands deep production experience in data platforms, strong SQL, Python/PowerShell scripting, and a track record of end-to-end platform ownership, incident response, and

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years in data engineering, platform engineering, analytics engineering, or cloud operations, with production ownership.
• Minimum 2 years of accounting experience, either implementing accounting systems or in direct accounting roles.
• Production-grade command of a cloud data platform (Snowflake preferred, Fabric or Databricks also acceptable).
• Strong command of BI platforms (Power BI or Tableau) including data modeling, security, and refresh architecture.
• CI/CD ownership: Git, branching and PR discipline, and building pipelines.
• Solid scripting in Python or PowerShell.
• Excellent troubleshooting, evidence gathering, and clear communication to varied audiences.
• Strong SQL and performance tuning skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and day-to-day operation of cloud data platforms: workspace and project architecture, access models, capacity planning, configuration standards, and troubleshooting.
• Define and enforce platform standards: naming and tagging conventions, access patterns, cost management, and environment separation.
• Drive platform maturity: identify structural gaps, propose the fix, and implement it without waiting.
• Design, build, and own CI/CD workflows for data and analytics assets, including branching strategy, promotion, approvals, and rollback.
• Establish reusable templates, checklists, and release documentation for the team.
• Set the deployment bar and enforce it through review and automation.
• Serve as the technical authority across a core platform plus BI tools, and provide depth across others.
• Lead onboarding and enablement for engineering and client teams with reusable patterns and guardrails.
• Own performance: diagnose and resolve query, job, refresh, and capacity issues; design to prevent recurrence.
• Own platform reliability: monitoring, SLOs, runbooks, and incident response; drive post-incident reviews and preventative fixes.
• Define and enforce least-privilege access and secure secret handling; govern data with policy alignment.
• Review the work of other engineers for security and governance before it reaches clients.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Advanced troubleshooting

Scripting (Python or PowerShell)

Technical writing

Cloud fundamentals

AI/GenAI enablement

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Tableau

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Armanino invites a senior engineering leader to architect, operate, and improve cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Fabric) and own BI delivery with Power BI or Tableau. You will set standards for reliability, security, governance, and production readiness, and you will make architecture calls independently.

This role demands deep production experience in data platforms, strong SQL, Python/PowerShell scripting, and a track record of end-to-end platform ownership, incident response, and