About the role
Work Location-Milwaukee, WI
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Snowflake Data Platform Architect to serve as a senior subject matter expert SME supporting a modern enterprise analytics platform built on Snowflake.
This role partners closely with existing Platform Architects and senior technical leaders contributing deep expertise in analytics focused data architecture modeling reporting enablement ELT based system onboarding and enterprise data integration.
- Typically, 7 to 10 years of experience in data engineering analytics or data architecture roles.
- 3 years of hands-on experience working with Snowflake in enterprise environments.
- Supports onboarding of individual systems or domains into Snowflake.
- Designs analytics ready data models and semantic views aligned to existing platform standards.
- Escalates major architectural trade-offs and risks to Platform Architects.
Key Responsibilities
- Snowflake Platform Expertise.
- System Onboarding Data Pipelines.
- Analytics Data Modeling.
- Reporting BI Enablement.
- Enterprise SaaS Data Integration.
- Collaboration Emerging Capabilities.
Required Qualifications
- Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake as an enterprise analytics platform.
- Advanced SQL skills and strong background in relational data warehousing.
- Proven experience designing dimensional models and semantic data layers.
- Experience enabling BI platforms such as Power BI or Sigma.
- Experience working with ELTbased ingestion pipelines and enterprise data tooling.
Preferred Strong Plus Qualifications.
- Experience with Salesforce Data Cloud Data 360 and Salesforce data models.
- Exposure to Snowflake Cortex nonspecialist.
- Experience operating in large multiteam enterprise environments
- Snowflake certifications such as SnowPro Core SnowPro Advanced Architect and or additional advanced or specialty certifications are a plus
Mandatory Skills
- Dimensional Data Modeling
- Snowflake
- Snowflake Administration