Senior Data Architect - Snowflake & AI-Ready Platform

RFG Advisory, LLC; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Bonus pool

PTO & holidays

401(k) plan

Job summary

RFG Advisory, LLC is seeking a hands-on Data Platform Lead to own the data platform end to end. You will manage Snowflake, pipelines, and governance while enabling AI readiness and secure access across the firm.

This role combines individual coding with guiding a growing team, reporting to the VP of Technology. You will design canonical data models, define architecture roadmaps, and ensure data quality and lineage across core business systems, including financial and CRM sources.

Qualifications

• Deep experience owning data platforms end to end.
• Proven ability to design canonical data models and governance.
• Experience with financial, CRM, and marketing data sources.

Responsibilities

• Own Snowflake environment including structure, environments, compute, cost.
• Run reliable data pipelines with monitoring for freshness and errors.
• Define data architecture roadmap and reference patterns.
• Build governed data catalog with metrics definitions and owners.
• Design row-level access and data protection controls.
• Lead AI readiness with a safe semantic layer for internal tools.

Skills

Data governance

SQL/Production SQL

Snowflake

Data modeling

Dashboards

AI readiness

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering

CFA / MBA (strong plus)

Analytics certification (optional)

Tools

Snowflake

Claude / ChatGPT / Copilot

Job description

RFG Advisory, LLC is seeking a hands-on Data Platform Lead to own the data platform end to end. You will manage Snowflake, pipelines, and governance while enabling AI readiness and secure access across the firm.

This role combines individual coding with guiding a growing team, reporting to the VP of Technology. You will design canonical data models, define architecture roadmaps, and ensure data quality and lineage across core business systems, including financial and CRM sources.