Senior Data Architect — Snowflake Financial Platform

Lateral Group; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Lateral Group is seeking a senior data architect to set the architecture and modeling direction for a mature Snowflake data platform that integrates 40+ sources. The initial focus is trustworthy financial reporting.

You will shape data layers, governance, and scalable designs, collaborating with finance and operations while guiding performance, cost, and quality across the data stack. This role also involves mentoring engineers in a distributed team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data engineering or architecture with ownership of production data platforms.
• Deep hands-on experience with a cloud data warehouse; Snowflake preferred; Databricks or similar also relevant.
• Strong data modeling experience for financial reporting structures and account hierarchies.
• Ability to design integrations across multiple sources with data quality, lineage, testing, and operational reliability.
• Ability to explain architecture to business stakeholders and guide engineers through design decisions.
• Comfort improving an existing platform within a distributed team and adapting as priorities evolve.

Responsibilities

• Assess the existing platform and define data layers, modeling conventions, naming and grain standards, and approaches for corrections and late-arriving data.
• Design models for general ledger activity, charts of accounts, and account hierarchies that support consistent financial and management reporting.
• Work with finance, investment, and operations stakeholders to turn reporting and decision-making needs into scalable data designs.
• Set ingestion, transformation, and orchestration patterns across data sources, including lineage, quality, and testing practices.
• Guide Snowflake performance, warehouse sizing, and cost decisions, making trade-offs clear to technical and nontechnical colleagues.
• Lead design reviews, document decisions, mentor data engineers, and shape approaches to governance, cataloging, and future AI-enabled use cases.

Skills

Data engineering

Data architecture

Data modeling

Cloud data warehouse

Stakeholder communication

Performance tuning

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

ETL tools

Job description

Lateral Group is seeking a senior data architect to set the architecture and modeling direction for a mature Snowflake data platform that integrates 40+ sources. The initial focus is trustworthy financial reporting.

You will shape data layers, governance, and scalable designs, collaborating with finance and operations while guiding performance, cost, and quality across the data stack. This role also involves mentoring engineers in a distributed team.