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Data Solutions Architect Snowflake Role Summary We are seeking an experienced Data Solutions Architect to translate enterprise and domain-level information models into concrete, implementable data solution architectures on Snowflake. This role sits at the intersection of strategy and hands-on delivery: the ideal candidate is equally comfortable advising on architectural direction and trade-offs with business and technology leadership and rolling up their sleeves to design and validate the underlying Snowflake architecture themselves.

Working closely with an Information Architect and directly with application development teams, this person will turn conceptual and logical domain models into a working technical architecture, beginning with a foundational initiative to design the data solution architecture for a new application capability.

• Design end-to-end data solution architectures on Snowflake - ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption - that implement the enterprise information model for priority application initiatives.
• Serve as a hands-on Snowflake practitioner: directly design, configure, and prototype architecture components (schema design, warehouse and access model, pipeline patterns) rather than operating in a purely advisory capacity.
• Partner with the Information Architect to ensure solution architectures faithfully reflect enterprise domain models, taxonomies, and standards, and to surface where implementation realities should inform the model.
• Translate business and architectural strategy into implementation-ready technical designs and translate implementation constraints back into terms business and architecture stakeholders can act on - moving fluidly between the two.
• Work directly with application development teams to implement and validate the physical data architecture supporting new applications, beginning with the Trade Exception Management application.
• Define reusable Snowflake architecture patterns and standards - data layering, security and access model, and performance/cost design principles - for adoption across application development teams.
• Evaluate and advise on architecture trade-offs (performance, cost, scalability, governance) at both a strategic/roadmap level and a detailed implementation level.
• Support integration between the Snowflake-based solution architecture and existing enterprise systems, platforms, and data flows.
• Participate in architecture review boards and governance forums, presenting solution architecture designs and recommendations.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. 8+ years of experience in data architecture or data engineering, including direct responsibility for designing end-to-end data solution architectures.

Current, hands-on practitioner-level experience with Snowflake - able to design, build, and troubleshoot within the platform directly, not solely at an advisory or oversight level.

Demonstrated ability to operate at both a strategic/architectural level and a detailed implementation level, and to shift fluidly between the two depending on the audience.

Experience partnering directly with application development teams to implement solution architecture designs in support of active initiatives.

Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical architecture decisions in business terms and to translate business and strategic direction into technical designs.

Experience designing data solution architectures within financial services or another regulated industry. Experience aligning a Snowflake-based architecture with an enterprise information model, taxonomy, or metadata/governance framework. Familiarity with data pipeline and orchestration tooling commonly used in Snowflake-based architectures. Experience advising on Snowflake cost optimization and performance tuning at scale. Exposure to enterprise integration patterns and how a Snowflake-based architecture fits within a broader application and systems landscape.

For applications and inquiries, contact:hirings@openkyber.com

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