Location: Melbourne Employment Type: Contract / Permanent Work Eligibility: PR / Citizen (No Sponsorship) Role Overview Senior Snowflake Architect responsible for designing enterprise-scale data platforms and driving architecture decisions. Strong client-facing experience required. Focus on Snowflake architecture and Snowpark for advanced in-warehouse processing. Key Responsibilities Own end-to-end Snowflake architecture (ingestion transformation consumption) Design batch & streaming ingestion frameworks Define layered architecture (raw, curated, semantic) Architect Snowpark (Python/SQL) solutions for complex transformations, data quality, and custom processing Drive Snowflake design decisions: Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, Time Travel, Zero-Copy Cloning Optimize performance (warehouse sizing, clustering, pruning, query tuning) Implement security & governance (RBAC, data masking, access control) Lead client discussions, architecture reviews, and solution design Required Skills 7 years in data engineering / architecture Deep expertise in Snowflake: Virtual Warehouses, Micro-partitions, Clustering Query performance tuning & cost optimization Strong hands-on with Snowpark (Python preferred) Experience with data modeling (Dimensional / Data Vault / Hybrid) Strong SQL data warehousing / lakehouse architecture Azure cloud experience preferred Strong stakeholder engagement & architecture ownership Good to Have MDM / data quality / deduplication use cases ML / analytics workloads in Snowflake CI/CD for data platforms Data governance frameworks
