Senior Data Platform Architect — Snowflake & Databricks

Jobtailor; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Data Platform Architect to lead end-to-end architecture, security, and governance of the enterprise data platform in a multi-cloud environment. You will enable scalable delivery across Investment Management use cases and architect a hybrid Snowflake–Databricks solution with strong data integration governance.

Responsibilities include defining platform standards, implementing data virtualization patterns, and guiding batch modernization while ensuring strict

Qualifications

• Experience supporting workloads in analytics, regulatory reporting, AI/ML, and batch applications.
• Familiar with Snowflake and Databricks.
• Knowledge of open data platforms (Iceberg/Parquet/Delta).
• Data virtualization skills.
• Batch application architecture and modernization experience.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end architecture, security design, and governance of enterprise data platform.
• Enable scalable, interoperable delivery across Investment Management use cases.
• Architect hybrid Snowflake–Databricks architecture and govern data integrations.
• Define and govern open platform strategy and standards for table formats.
• Develop data virtualization patterns for logical access to data.
• Lead architecture and solutioning for batch applications migrating to cloud-native platforms.
• Enforce data security by design and ensure compliance with audits and data protection controls.
• Engage stakeholders and produce architecture diagrams and design artifacts.

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Iceberg

Parquet

Delta

Data virtualization

Spark

Notebooks

Snowpark

Linux

EC2

SQL

Python

Java

Javascript

Scala

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Data Platform Architect to lead end-to-end architecture, security, and governance of the enterprise data platform in a multi-cloud environment. You will enable scalable delivery across Investment Management use cases and architect a hybrid Snowflake–Databricks solution with strong data integration governance.

Responsibilities include defining platform standards, implementing data virtualization patterns, and guiding batch modernization while ensuring strict