Senior Data Architect - Snowflake Finance Platform

Lateral, Inc; Fort Lauderdale (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Lateral, Inc is seeking a senior Data Architect to set the direction of our data platform. You will shape architecture, model finance data, and lead integration across 40+ sources to support reliable reporting and scalable analytics.

You will collaborate with finance, investments, and operations stakeholders, drive governance, and mentor engineers while focusing on performance, cost, and data quality. This role is on-site in Fort Lauderdale, with a focus on AI-enabled data solutions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data engineering, data architecture, or database engineering, with real ownership of production data platforms.
• Hands-on experience with a cloud data warehouse (Snowflake preferred; Databricks or similar) including performance tuning and cost management.
• Strong data modeling skills: grain, dimensional modeling, layered architectures, and handling corrections and late‑arriving data.
• Advanced SQL and designing efficient schemas for high-volume environments.
• Experience designing ETL/ELT pipelines and integrations across many sources with a transformation framework (dbt) and an orchestrator (Airflow, Dagster).
• Finance literacy: modeling general ledger data, charts of accounts, and account hierarchies into financial/management reporting.
• Ability to diagnose and improve platforms you didn’t build, and to decide what to fix first.
• A quality mindset: testing, data quality, lineage, and clear design documentation (diagrams, decisions, trade‑offs).
• Strong English communication and comfort with remote, asynchronous work across time zones.
• A practical working relationship with AI tools in design, build, and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Assess and shape the platform architecture: review Snowflake, define target architecture with layered raw/staging/marts and data corrections handling.
• Design the financial data model: GL activity, COA, and hierarchies for financial and management reporting.
• Design for the business, translating stakeholder needs into scalable data designs.
• Own integration design across 40+ sources: ingestion, transformation, orchestration with lineage and testing.
• Optimize for performance and cost: warehouse sizing, query performance, cost management across teams.
• Set standards and lead design reviews, document designs, and mentor data engineers.
• Prepare the platform for governance, data cataloging, and AI-enabled use cases.

Skills

Years of experience

Snowflake

Data modeling

Advanced SQL

ETL/ELT pipelines

Finance literacy

Data quality & lineage

English communication

AI tooling integration

Leadership & mentoring

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

dbt

Airflow

Dagster

Job description

Lateral, Inc is seeking a senior Data Architect to set the direction of our data platform. You will shape architecture, model finance data, and lead integration across 40+ sources to support reliable reporting and scalable analytics.

You will collaborate with finance, investments, and operations stakeholders, drive governance, and mentor engineers while focusing on performance, cost, and data quality. This role is on-site in Fort Lauderdale, with a focus on AI-enabled data solutions.