Snowflake Architect: Data Platform Modernization Lead

Anblicks; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Anblicks is seeking a Snowflake Architect to drive design, data modeling, and solution strategy for enterprise-scale migrations to Snowflake. The role owns medallion architecture design, transformation standards, and cutover-safe migration patterns on some of the largest builds in our portfolio.

Responsibilities include designing target-state Snowflake architectures, leading data modeling, and guiding go-to-migration decisions with client teams.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in data engineering/architecture.
• 5+ years architecting Snowflake at enterprise scale (SnowPro Advanced).
• Hands-on experience with modernization programs including AI-enabled delivery, migration planning, data validation, parallel runs, and cutover execution.
• AWS-native ingestion patterns (Snowpipe, Kinesis) and orchestration (Dagster/Airflow) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design target-state Snowflake architectures: medallion layering, dbt and orchestration standards, security/RBAC, performance and cost optimization.
• Drive data modeling for complex enterprise domains; translate legacy schemas and logic into modern, maintainable designs.
• Define migration plans, history back-load and incremental load strategies, validation and reconciliation approaches, and cutover designs.
• Lead design reviews and architecture sign-off inputs with client architecture teams.
• Guide build teams hands-on; apply AI-assisted and accelerator-driven conversion approaches.
• Support parallel-run tolerance definition and Go/No-Go decisions.

Skills

Data engineering

Architecture design

Migration planning

Cloud data platforms

Tools

Snowflake

SnowPro Advanced

Dagster

Airflow

dbt

Kinesis

Job description

Anblicks is seeking a Snowflake Architect to drive design, data modeling, and solution strategy for enterprise-scale migrations to Snowflake. The role owns medallion architecture design, transformation standards, and cutover-safe migration patterns on some of the largest builds in our portfolio.

Responsibilities include designing target-state Snowflake architectures, leading data modeling, and guiding go-to-migration decisions with client teams.