Senior Data Architect - Snowflake & Databricks (Remote)

Trace3; Atlanta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health plans

401(k) with match

Financial savings plans (529)

Competitive compensation

Training and development

Snacks and beverages in offices

Work-life balance & PTO

Job summary

Trace3 is hiring a Senior Architect for Data & Analytics to lead modern data architectures and client engagements. You will design scalable data platforms across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, focusing on governance, security, and performance.

Expect hands-on architecture, leadership, and delivery oversight in a client-facing role. You will collaborate with executives, guide engineering teams, and ensure solutions align with business outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related technical consulting role.
• Hands-on production experience with Snowflake, Databricks, or Microsoft Fabric (2 of 3).
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, data integration, lakehouse/warehouse patterns, analytics architecture, and data governance.
• Proficiency with SQL and Python, plus experience with data pipeline orchestration and CI/CD.
• Ability to lead architecture workshops, mentor teams, and communicate complex concepts clearly.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of modern data architectures across cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments.
• Translate business and analytics requirements into durable architectures and roadmaps.
• Define patterns for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, modeling, governance, security, and observability.
• Design lakehouse, data warehouse, data mesh, and related architectures as needed.
• Establish scalable patterns for batch, streaming, and event-driven processing.
• Guide teams in productionizing notebooks, pipelines, SQL, Python, and IaC.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modeling

Data governance

SQL

Python

CI/CD

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Trace3 is hiring a Senior Architect for Data & Analytics to lead modern data architectures and client engagements. You will design scalable data platforms across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, focusing on governance, security, and performance.

Expect hands-on architecture, leadership, and delivery oversight in a client-facing role. You will collaborate with executives, guide engineering teams, and ensure solutions align with business outcomes.