Description:
The Cloud Data Architect (Snowflake), SME will serve as the senior technical authority for Snowflake-based data architecture and integration within the Digital Workplace environment.
Principal Responsibilities Will Include But Are Not Limited To
- Design and implement Snowflake architecture patterns that support data integration, analytics, governance, performance, security, and operational sustainment.
- Develop target-state data models, data flows, schemas, warehouse structures, and integration patterns for enterprise and program data sources.
- Guide the integration of Snowflake with data catalog, visualization, identity, security, and workflow platforms used across the Digital Workplace ecosystem.
- Establish technical standards for ingestion, transformation, storage, access control, data sharing, metadata capture, and lifecycle management.
- Support performance tuning, cost optimization, workload isolation, warehouse sizing, query optimization, and platform monitoring.
- Collaborate with governance, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure data solutions align with federal security and compliance expectations.
- Produce architecture diagrams, implementation guidance, data interface specifications, design decisions, and operational runbooks.
Required
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- 8+ years of experience in data architecture, cloud data engineering, enterprise analytics, or data platform implementation.
- 4+ years of hands-on experience designing or implementing Snowflake or comparable cloud data platform solutions.
- Experience supporting enterprise data integration, governance, and analytics environments in complex stakeholder settings.