Data Solution Architect - Snowflake on AWS

Location: Anywhere in Australia (Flexible / Remote)

About the Role

We are seeking a senior Data Solution Architect to lead a major enterprise data modernization program, migrating complex on-premises data workloads to a secure, scalable Snowflake on AWS environment within a highly regulated financial services context.

You will define and govern the target-state data architecture, establish enterprise modelling standards, guide pipeline migration, and ensure all data services are resilient, secure, cost-optimized, and production-ready.

Key Responsibilities

• Target Architecture & Strategy: Assess existing on-premises data landscapes and design end-to-end target architectures on Snowflake and AWS across landing, curated, and consumption layers.
• Pipeline & Modernization Design: Define batch, incremental, and near-real-time ingestion/transformation patterns (Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks) and guide the migration of legacy workloads.
• Governance & Security: Collaborate with security teams to enforce RBAC, IAM, data masking, encryption, data lineage, quality, and regulatory compliance standards across the data lifecycle.
• FinOps & Performance: Implement Snowflake architectural best practices for warehouse sizing, workload isolation, auto-suspend/resume, query optimization, and cost governance.
• Operational Readiness: Define monitoring, observability, runbook, and service management standards to ensure a seamless handover to managed operations teams.
• Stakeholder Leadership: Produce detailed technical design documents (ADRs, data flows) and provide architectural direction across business, engineering, and platform teams.

Skills & Experience Required

• Snowflake & AWS Expertise: Proven hands-on data architecture experience with Snowflake (warehousing, objects, Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks) alongside core AWS data integration services.
• Data Engineering & Modelling: Deep knowledge of Data Vault/Dimensional modelling, enterprise data lakes/lakehouses, ELT/ETL architectures, and semantic consumption layers.
• Cloud Migration Experience: Proven track record architecting enterprise-scale migrations from legacy on-premises data systems to modern cloud platforms.
• Regulated Environment Background: Prior experience designing data solutions within banking, financial services, or similarly strict enterprise security frameworks.
• Operational & FinOps Mastery: Solid understanding of cloud cost optimization, DataOps, CI/CD, and production supportability models.

Desirable Skills & Certifications

• Snowflake Architectural Certification or AWS Certified Data Engineer / Solutions Architect.
• Familiarity with enterprise frameworks (e.g., TOGAF), Power BI/analytics layers, and enterprise data catalog toolsets.

To be considered for the role click the 'apply' button or for more information about this and other opportunities please contact Yash Kumar Jain on [03 8680 4235](tel:03 8680 4235) or email: [email protected] and quote the above job reference number.

Paxus values diversity and welcomes applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people living with a disability. If you require an adjustment to the recruitment process, including the application form in an alternate format, please contact me on the above contact details.