Senior Snowflake Platform Architect – Scale, Security & CoE

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); Vor Ort; USD 210.000 - 270.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Intuitive Surgical in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Senior Snowflake Platform Architect to lead the enterprise Snowflake platform, overseeing architecture, security, and operational excellence for terabyte-scale workloads. You will own topology, DR, automation, and data governance across environments, while mentoring teams and coordinating with the EA Data Integrations and EDW Platform Team.

The role requires strong SQL, Python, and cloud tooling expertise, with a focus on performance, cost

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years in data platform engineering or infrastructure architecture.
• 5+ years Snowflake with 2+ in an architect/lead role.
• Strong SQL with complex queries and performance tuning.
• Experience with security, governance, and regulated environments.

Aufgaben

• Own Snowflake platform architecture, including topology, databases/schemas, warehouses, replication, DR and multi-environment governance.
• Maintain 99.9%+ availability through monitoring, SLOs and incident response.
• Architect RBAC, SSO/OAuth, and secure network patterns for enterprise integrations.
• Govern data protection, classification, and compliance (SOX/HITRUST) across platforms.
• Lead CI/CD pipelines for schema/object changes using Terraform, Git and dbt.
• Drive Snowflake Platform CoE, guardrails, adoption, and vendor relationships.

Kenntnisse

Snowflake platform architecture

SQL

Python

Terraform

Airflow

dbt

Git CI/CD

Okta SSO/OAuth

Security & Compliance

Vendor management

Ausbildung

Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Snowflake

Airflow

dbt

Terraform

Git

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Okta/SAML

Collibra/Alation/Atlan

Jobbeschreibung

Intuitive Surgical in Sunnyvale, CA, seeks a Senior Snowflake Platform Architect to lead the enterprise Snowflake platform, overseeing architecture, security, and operational excellence for terabyte-scale workloads. You will own topology, DR, automation, and data governance across environments, while mentoring teams and coordinating with the EA Data Integrations and EDW Platform Team.

The role requires strong SQL, Python, and cloud tooling expertise, with a focus on performance, cost