Senior Snowflake Architect & Platform Strategist

DataArt; United States; On-site; USD 96,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

DataArt seeks a Senior Snowflake Specialist to assess a broader data ecosystem, define strategic initiatives, and guide platform architecture and optimization. You will lead discovery with stakeholders, challenge approaches, and present recommendations to leadership.

The engagement starts with a full-time onsite period of 4 to 8 weeks in California, followed by a part-time commitment of approximately 20 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Deep hands on Snowflake platform expertise.
• Experience with Snowflake architecture, scaling, cost and performance optimization, best practices, and governance.
• Experience with data platform architecture.
• Experience with data lake or lakehouse design.
• Experience with data modelling and data quality.
• Practical experience applying AI or GenAI on top of a data platform.
• Strong communication and stakeholder facing skills.
• Ability to run discovery workshops or sessions.
• Ability to challenge stakeholders constructively and present initiatives to leadership.
• Strategic mindset to assess a data ecosystem and propose concrete initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Assess the overall data ecosystem and platform strategy.
• Lead discovery activities with stakeholders.
• Challenge existing approaches and present leadership initiatives.
• Propose concrete initiatives for platform improvement.
• Support Snowflake architecture decisions.
• Improve scaling, governance, and cost and performance optimization.
• Contribute to data lake or lakehouse design.
• Contribute to data modelling and data quality practices.
• Apply AI and GenAI capabilities on the data platform.

Skills

Snowflake expertise

Data platform architecture

Data modelling

Data quality

AI/GenAI on data platform

Stakeholder communication

Discovery workshops

Strategic data ecosystem assessment

Leadership presentation

Job description

DataArt seeks a Senior Snowflake Specialist to assess a broader data ecosystem, define strategic initiatives, and guide platform architecture and optimization. You will lead discovery with stakeholders, challenge approaches, and present recommendations to leadership.

The engagement starts with a full-time onsite period of 4 to 8 weeks in California, followed by a part-time commitment of approximately 20 hours per week.