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:
o Virtual Warehouses, Micro-partitions, Clustering
o 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
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