Snowflake Horizon Architect: Governance & Security Lead

Valiant Technologies LLC; Arkansas; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC in the United States seeks an experienced Snowflake Architect to lead the implementation of Snowflake Horizon and data governance capabilities. The role combines deep Snowflake platform expertise with hands-on governance, security, metadata, and access controls.

The ideal candidate translates governance policies into scalable Snowflake controls, partners with owners, stewards, security, and engineering, and establishes reusable architecture patterns and implementation

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data architecture or engineering experience with Snowflake.
• Experience implementing data governance within Snowflake.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake security, RBAC, tagging, masking, classification, metadata, and lineage.
• Understanding enterprise data governance, including ownership, stewardship, data quality, privacy, and protection.
• Translate governance policies into scalable technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and implementation of Snowflake Horizon capabilities.
• Design and implement data classification, tagging, lineage, metadata, and governance controls.
• Configure Snowflake security including RBAC, dynamic data masking, row access policies, and tag-based policies.
• Translate enterprise data governance requirements into technical Snowflake controls and standards.
• Partner with data owners, stewards, security, and engineering teams to operationalize governance.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns, standards, and implementation documentation.

Skills

Snowflake

Data governance

RBAC

Data security

Data classification

Metadata management

Data lineage

Architectural design

Tools

Snowflake Horizon

SnowPro Core/Advanced: Architect

Microsoft Purview

Collibra

Informatica

Job description

Valiant Technologies LLC in the United States seeks an experienced Snowflake Architect to lead the implementation of Snowflake Horizon and data governance capabilities. The role combines deep Snowflake platform expertise with hands-on governance, security, metadata, and access controls.

The ideal candidate translates governance policies into scalable Snowflake controls, partners with owners, stewards, security, and engineering, and establishes reusable architecture patterns and implementation