Senior Data Architect

CitiusTech; New Jersey; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

CitiusTech is hiring a Senior Snowflake Architect in the United States (New Jersey) to design, build, and operate a scalable Snowflake data platform. This hands-on senior IC role combines architecture with platform administration and cross‑functional collaboration to deliver secure, high‑performing data solutions.

You will own governance, security, and optimization across development, test, and production environments, partnering with data engineering, analytics, and cloud teams to enable

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or data platform roles.
• 4–5+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience spanning architecture and administration.
• Snowflake architecture, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Data warehousing concepts and dimensional modeling.
• Advanced SQL; Python experience preferred.
• Experience designing and operating ELT/ETL pipelines.
• Working knowledge of Snowflake security and governance features.
• Scripting and automation experience (e.g., Bash, Terraform, or similar tools).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Snowflake SnowPro Core certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable Snowflake architectures for data warehouse, data lake, and data sharing use cases.
• Define and implement governance features and security controls.
• Own day-to-day administration of Snowflake environments across development, test, and production.
• Monitor performance, optimize capacity, and manage costs.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analytics teams, and product partners to translate requirements into solutions.
• Enable advanced analytics and Cortex AI capabilities within Snowflake.

Skills

Snowflake Architecture

Data Modeling

SQL

Python

ETL Pipelines

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

CI/CD

Governance

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Job description

At CitiusTech, we constantly strive to solve the industry's greatest challenges with technology, creativity, and agility. With over 8,500 healthcare technology professionals worldwide, CitiusTech powers healthcare digital innovation, business transformation, and industry-wide convergence for over 140 organizations through next-generation technologies, solutions, and products. We aim to accelerate the transition to a human-first, sustainable, and digital healthcare ecosystem with the world's leading Healthcare and life sciences organizations and our partners.

Here is an opportunity for you to make a difference and collaborate with global leaders to shape the future of healthcare and positively impact human lives.

Our vision: -

To inspire new possibilities for the health ecosystem with technology and human ingenuity.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Snowflake Architect to design, build, and operate our Snowflake data platform. This role blends hands-on architecture with platform administration, ensuring Snowflake is secure, scalable, performant, and cost-efficient.

This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role with technical ownership and matrix leadership responsibilities, partnering closely with data engineering, analytics, and cloud teams to enable reliable, high-impact data solutions.

What You’ll Do

Architecture & Engineering

• Design and implement scalable Snowflake architectures supporting data warehouse, data lake, and data sharing use cases.
• Dimensional and analytical data models
• Batch and near real-time ELT/ETL pipelines
• Data integration and Snowflake Data Sharing
• End-to-end data layers (Bronze / Silver / Gold), semantic views, and analytics-ready datasets
• Advanced Snowflake capabilities including Cortex AI and data agents

• Define and implement governance features such as Snowflake Horizon, masking, and encryption.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analytics teams, and product partners to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Evaluate new Snowflake features and recommend adoption to improve performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Enable advanced analytics use cases in Snowflake, including predictive modeling and anomaly detection using Cortex AI.

Platform Administration & Operations

• Own day-to-day administration of Snowflake environments across development, test, and production.
• Manage Snowflake configuration including warehouses, databases, schemas, users, roles, and resource monitors.
• Monitor and optimize platform performance, availability, and cost usage.
• Implement and maintain Snowflake security controls, including:
  • Role-based access control (RBAC)
  • Masking and row access policies
  • Governance and monitoring features
• Troubleshoot and resolve Snowflake performance, pipeline, and access issues.
• Design and implement data sharing, replication, disaster recovery/failover, and backup strategies.
• Maintain platform documentation, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise privacy, security, and data governance standards.
• Provide guidance and technical oversight to distributed or offshore Snowflake administration resources.

What You’ll Bring

• 8–10+ years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or data platform roles
• 4–5+ years of hands‑on Snowflake experience spanning architecture and administration
• Snowflake architecture, performance tuning, and cost optimization
• Data warehousing concepts and dimensional modeling
• Advanced SQL; Python experience preferred
• Experience designing and operating ELT/ETL pipelines
• Working knowledge of Snowflake security and governance features
• Scripting and automation experience (e.g., Bash, Terraform, or similar tools)
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills
• Snowflake SnowPro Core certification preferred

Why Join Us

You’ll play a critical role in shaping a modern, enterprise‑scale data platform, working hands‑on with Snowflake’s latest capabilities while partnering with talented engineering and analytics teams to deliver meaningful business impact.

Life at CitiusTech

We focus on building highly motivated engineering teams and thought leaders with an entrepreneurial mindset, centered on our core values of Passion, Respect, Openness, Unity, and Depth (PROUD) of knowledge. Our success lies in creating a fun, transparent, non‑hierarchical, diverse work culture that focuses on continuous learning and work‑life balance.

Rated by our employees as the ‘Great Place to Work for’ according to the Great Place to Work survey. We offer you a comprehensive set of benefits to ensure that you have a long and rewarding career with us.

Our EVP

Be You Be Awesome is our EVP and it reflects our continuing efforts to create CitiusTech as a great place to work where our employees can thrive, both personally and professionally. It encompasses the unique benefits and opportunities we offer to support your growth, well‑being, and success throughout your journey with us and beyond. Together with our clients, we are solving some of the greatest healthcare challenges and positively impacting human lives. Welcome to the world of Faster Growth, Higher Learning, and Stronger Impact.