Snowflake Platform Architect

Role- Snowflake Platform Architect

Year of Experience- 12 to 18 years

Location- Pan India

Required Skills & Expertise - Snowflake (Unity Catalog, Delta, Workflows), Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), PySpark, SQL, Terraform, CI/CD tools, and security frameworks.

Role Summary

Seasoned Snowflake Platform Architect with expertise in setting up and operationalising enterprise-grade Snowflake environments from scratch across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Strong experience in platform engineering, governance, security, DevOps, and scalable data architecture.

Core Responsibilities

1. Snowflake Environment Setup (Greenfield)

Design and deploy Snowflake workspace architecture; multi-environment (Dev/QA/Prod); VNet/VPC setup; cluster policies and autoscaling; Unity Catalog architecture.

2. Cloud & Infrastructure Setup

Provision cloud resources; configure AWS, Azure, GCP services; implement infrastructure as code using Terraform.

3. Data Governance & Security

Implement Unity Catalog; RBAC/ABAC controls; data lineage, masking, encryption, and secrets management.

4. Data Architecture Foundation

Set up Lakehouse architecture; enable Iceberg; establish data ingestion and transformation frameworks.

5. DevOps & Platform Automation

Implement CI/CD pipelines; automate deployments; enable repo integration and orchestration frameworks.

6. Performance & Cost Engineering

Define cluster strategies; optimise query performance; manage cost controls and scaling.

7. Monitoring & Operations Setup

Set up monitoring, alerts, and observability integrations (Datadog, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch).