- 8+ years of experience in IT, including 6+ years of experience as an architect. Snowflake Data Architect, Cortex AI. Design enterprise data architecture and integration patterns in Snowflake.

- Implement Cortex AI features for ML models and predictions.

- Administer Striim pipelines for real-time CDC data ingestion.

- Optimize data flows between Striim, Snowflake, and source systems. Define governance standards for AI/ML workflows and streaming data.

We are seeking an experienced Snowflake Data Architect with strong expertise in enterprise data architecture, real-time data integration, and AI/ML enablement. The ideal candidate will play a key role in designing scalable data platforms on Snowflake, implementing Cortex AI capabilities, and managing real-time CDC pipelines using Striim.

This role requires deep architectural experience, hands-on implementation skills, and the ability to define governance standards for streaming data and AI-driven workflows.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design and implement enterprise-grade data architecture on Snowflake

- Define scalable data models, integration patterns, and best practices

- Architect data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts on Snowflake

- Ensure high performance, scalability, and cost optimization of Snowflake environments

- Implement and optimize Snowflake Cortex AI features for ML models, predictions, and analytics

- Enable AI/ML workloads directly within Snowflake

- Collaborate with data science teams to operationalize ML models

- Define standards for AI model deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management

- Administer and manage Striim pipelines for real-time CDC (Change Data Capture) ingestion

- Optimize data flows between source systems, Striim, and Snowflake

- Ensure low-latency, reliable, and fault-tolerant data pipelines

- Troubleshoot performance and data consistency issues across streaming systems

- Design and implement batch and real-time ETL/ELT pipelines

- Integrate data from multiple sources (databases, applications, APIs, cloud services)

- Ensure data quality, validation, and reconciliation across pipelines

- Define and enforce data governance standards for streaming data and AI/ML workflows

- Implement role-based access control (RBAC), data masking, and encryption

- Ensure compliance with enterprise security and regulatory requirements

- Establish data lineage, auditing, and monitoring frameworks

- Act as a technical architect guiding data engineering and analytics teams

- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions

- Review designs, provide technical guidance, and mentor team members

- Contribute to architecture documentation and best-practice guidelines

Required Skills & Expertise :

- 8+ years of overall IT experience

- 6+ years of experience in a Data Architect / Solution Architect role

- Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake Data Platform

- Snowflake architecture, performance tuning, and cost optimization

- Snowflake Cortex AI for ML models and predictive analytics

- Advanced SQL and data modeling techniques

- Experience with ETL/ELT frameworks and orchestration tools

- Hands-on experience with Striim for real-time CDC pipelines

- Strong understanding of streaming data architectures

- Experience integrating Snowflake with on-prem and cloud-based source systems

- Understanding of AI/ML workflows and model deployment

- Experience enabling analytics and predictive use cases on data platforms

- Knowledge of feature engineering and data preparation for ML

- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP)

- Familiarity with CI/CD for data pipelines

- Infrastructure-as-code and automation exposure

- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or a related field

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills

- Ability to work independently and lead architectural initiatives

- Experience with Kafka or other streaming platforms

- Knowledge of data catalogs and metadata management tools

- Exposure to enterprise BI and reporting tools

- Experience in large-scale enterprise data modernization programs