Snowflake Data Architect — Onsite Houston, AWS & Governance

W3Global

Houston (TX)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

W3Global in Houston, TX, seeks a Snowflake Architect / Data Architect to design and scale a cloud data platform centered on Snowflake and AWS. This on-site full-time role emphasizes governance, metadata, and semantic modeling to deliver trusted data products for analytics and AI.

You will build pipelines, ingest with Informatica, transform with dbt, and design data structures in Snowflake, while collaborating with stakeholders across the enterprise to ensure security, performance, and

Qualifications

Experience with data cataloging, governance, lineage, metadata management, and policy-driven data access.
Knowledge of ontology, semantic modeling, taxonomies, business glossaries, or knowledge graph concepts.
Claude mandatory with AWS experience; Oil & Gas mid-stream domain knowledge.
Ability to design scalable data pipelines and enterprise data platforms using Snowflake and AWS.
Experience with data products and governance.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources.
Develop data ingestion and extract-load processes using Informatica, aligning with enterprise standards.
Build transformation logic using dbt, including modular models, testing, documentation, and deployment workflows.
Design and manage data structures in Snowflake, with Snowflake as the central platform.
Work with AWS-based data services and infrastructure supporting apps and data products.