Senior Data Architect: Snowflake, Data Governance & AI

Signant Health; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Signant Health is seeking a Data Architect to define enterprise data architecture and strategy, bringing data from diverse systems into Snowflake, the main enterprise platform. This individual contributor role reports to the Head of AI, blending strategic thinking with hands‑on data engineering to build scalable pipelines.

You will break down silos, enable data‑driven decision making and AI across the organization, partnering with teams to set standards for data ingestion, governance, and

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering or software engineering, including 5+ years in data architecture and 3+ years delivering production Snowflake solutions.
• Deep experience integrating heterogeneous sources (SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, enterprise SaaS); expert SQL and data modeling skills; proficiency in Python and dbt.
• Proven AWS experience (S3, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, IAM); experience with orchestration, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code (Airflow, Terraform, Git).
• Experience designing governance, security, and compliance controls for regulated data; ability to produce architecture artifacts and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the target‑state enterprise data architecture and multi‑year roadmap, with Snowflake as the central data platform.
• Document the current‑state data landscape across SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, and enterprise SaaS applications; perform gap analysis and develop a prioritized onboarding roadmap.
• Establish architectural principles, reference architectures, and standard patterns for data ingestion, storage, transformation, and consumption; evaluate and recommend tooling via build‑vs‑buy analysis.
• Design and build ingestion patterns — CDC, batch, streaming, and API-based — using AWS‑native and Snowflake‑native services (AWS DMS, Glue, Kinesis/MSK, Snowpipe, dbt) and establish engineering standards for pipelines, CI/CD, observability, and error handling.
• Develop source‑to‑target reconciliation and validation frameworks consistent with ALCOA+ data integrity principles; optimize Snowflake performance and cost as data volumes grow.
• Lead cross‑team architecture reviews, mentor engineers, and serve as the primary technical liaison with Snowflake and other data platform vendors.

Skills

SQL

Python

dbt

Snowflake

AWS

Data Modeling

Data Governance

CI/CD

Terraform

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Airflow

Terraform

dbt

Git

Job description

Signant Health is seeking a Data Architect to define enterprise data architecture and strategy, bringing data from diverse systems into Snowflake, the main enterprise platform. This individual contributor role reports to the Head of AI, blending strategic thinking with hands‑on data engineering to build scalable pipelines.

You will break down silos, enable data‑driven decision making and AI across the organization, partnering with teams to set standards for data ingestion, governance, and