Snowflake Cloud Data Architect - Hybrid DC Leader

LEVI, RAY & SHOUP, INC; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc. seeks a Cloud Data Architect (Snowflake) SME to design modern cloud data platforms, enable enterprise analytics, and transform complex data ecosystems into scalable, governed data solutions.

This hybrid role is based in Washington, DC and directs Snowflake architecture initiatives critical to business and mission environments. You will lead governance, cybersecurity, and analytics collaboration, mentor engineers, and codify standards, runbooks, and best practices for a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Snowflake architecture patterns that support analytics, reporting, governance, security, performance, and operational sustainability.
• Develop target-state data architectures, enterprise data models, schemas, warehouse structures, integration patterns, and data flows.
• Serve as the technical authority for Snowflake-based data architecture across the organization.
• Define and implement standards for data ingestion, transformation, storage, metadata management, lifecycle management, data sharing, and access controls.
• Support enterprise data integration initiatives and promote scalable and governed data access across business and mission systems.
• Guide the integration of Snowflake with data catalog, visualization, workflow, identity management, and enterprise platform ecosystems.
• Optimize platform performance through workload isolation, warehouse sizing, query tuning, monitoring, and cost management strategies.
• Collaborate with governance, cybersecurity, infrastructure, application, and analytics teams to ensure solutions align with security and compliance requirements.
• Establish architecture standards, implementation guidance, and operational procedures that can be effectively adopted by engineering and support teams.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, interface specifications, design documentation, operational runbooks, and technical standards.
• Provide technical mentorship and architectural leadership across data platform initiatives.

Skills

Data Architecture

Cloud Data Engineering

Enterprise Analytics

Data Pipelines

ELT/ETL

Security & Compliance

Documentation

Stakeholder Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, or related field

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Fivetran

Matillion

Informatica

Airflow

Job description

Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc. seeks a Cloud Data Architect (Snowflake) SME to design modern cloud data platforms, enable enterprise analytics, and transform complex data ecosystems into scalable, governed data solutions.

This hybrid role is based in Washington, DC and directs Snowflake architecture initiatives critical to business and mission environments. You will lead governance, cybersecurity, and analytics collaboration, mentor engineers, and codify standards, runbooks, and best practices for a