Data Architect

Focus: Snowflake, AWS, Iceberg, Data Governance, and Ontology-Driven Data Models

Data Architect- Familiarity with data cataloging, governance, lineage, metadata management, and policy-driven data access.

Understanding of ontology, semantic modeling, taxonomies, business glossaries, or knowledge graph concepts . + Claude Mandatory + AWS working knowledge + Oil and Natural Gad Mid Stream Domain

Role Summary

We are looking for a Data Engineer to help design, build, and scale a modern cloud data platform centered on Snowflake and AWS . The ideal candidate has strong data engineering fundamentals, experience with enterprise data platforms, and the ability to work with ontologies, semantic models, metadata, and governed data products .

This role will support strategic data initiatives using Snowflake, AWS, Iceberg managed tables, Snowflake Catalog, Snowflake Horizon, Informatica, and dbt . The Data Engineer will help create trusted, reusable data assets that support applications, analytics, AI, and business intelligence use cases.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources.
• Develop data ingestion and extract-load processes using Informatica , aligning with enterprise standards and existing in-house capabilities.
• Build transformation logic using dbt , including modular models, testing, documentation, and deployment workflows.
• Design and manage data structures in Snowflake , with Snowflake positioned as the central strategic data platform.
• Work with AWS-based data services and infrastructure , supporting applications and data products running in the organization’s AWS environment.
• Support data architecture using Iceberg managed tables , including open table formats, interoperability, cataloging, and governed access patterns.
• Use Snowflake Catalog and Snowflake Horizon to support metadata management, data discovery, governance, lineage, policy enforcement, and trusted data sharing.
• Collaborate with data architects, governance teams, analysts, application teams, and business stakeholders to define trusted data products.
• Work with domain experts to understand business concepts, entities, relationships, and terminology.
• Support ontology-driven modeling, including entity definitions, taxonomies, relationships, business glossaries, and semantic mappings.
• Translate business and domain concepts into logical data models, physical data models, and reusable data products.
• Implement data quality checks, validation rules, lineage, observability, and governance controls.
• Support data products and applications such as news intelligence, asset intelligence, analytics, and AI-enabled use cases.
• Ensure data solutions meet enterprise requirements for security, privacy, access control, performance, and reliability.

Required Skills

• Strong experience in data engineering, data modeling, ETL/ELT, and cloud data platform development.
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake, including data modeling, performance optimization, access controls, and scalable warehouse/lakehouse patterns.
• Experience working in AWS cloud environments.
• Experience with Informatica or similar enterprise data integration platforms for extract-load and ingestion patterns.
• Experience with dbt for data transformations, testing, documentation, and analytics engineering workflows.
• Understanding of Apache Iceberg or open table formats, including managed tables, schema evolution, interoperability, and catalog-based access.
• Familiarity with data cataloging, governance, lineage, metadata management, and policy-driven data access.
• Understanding of ontology, semantic modeling, taxonomies, business glossaries, or knowledge graph concepts.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with Python or another data engineering language.
• Ability to work with business stakeholders to define data entities, relationships, metrics, and data product requirements.
• Strong communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Snowflake Catalog and Snowflake Horizon.
• Experience building governed data products for analytics, AI, or application use cases.
• Experience with enterprise governance tooling, especially Informatica governance capabilities.
• Experience with RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL, graph databases, or knowledge graph platforms.
• Experience designing semantic layers, business glossaries, metadata models, or domain ontologies.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git, automated testing, and deployment workflows for data pipelines.
• Experience with data observability, lineage tracking, data contracts, and data quality frameworks.
• Experience working in complex enterprise data environments with multiple systems, domains, and stakeholder groups.