United States onlyYou will collaborate with clients across industries to assess current data environments, envision future-state architectures, and design scalable, cloud-native solutions using platforms like Snowflake, and enterprise services on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
This role can be located almost anywhere in the U.S.
What You Will Do:
- Partner with C-level and senior stakeholders to understand business goals, data challenges, and transformation priorities.
- Act as a trusted advisor, translating high-level business needs into actionable data and technology strategies.
- Drive adoption of modern architecture principles and evangelize solution value across both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Architect scalable and flexible data lakehouse, data warehouse, and real-time analytics solutions.
- Lead end-to-end solutioning, from assessment and roadmap creation to detailed technical design and cloud migration execution.
- Innovate reusable patterns, frameworks, and accelerators to support repeatable client success.
- Collaborate across engineering, product, marketing, and delivery teams to co-create client-ready solutions.
- Align internal stakeholders on architecture decisions and drive consensus for scalable, secure, and performant designs.
- Lead presales solutioning, proposal development, SOWs, and demos in partnership with sales and consulting teams.
- Lead technical workshops, solution deep dives, and proof-of-value (POV) pilots to validate architecture feasibility and client alignment.
- Design and oversee modern data pipelines (ETL/ELT), data modeling, governance, and security architectures.
- Guide teams working with Snowflake-native capabilities such as Secure Data Sharing, Snowpark, and Zero-Copy Cloning and integration patterns across marketing platforms and CDPs.
- Define standards and guardrails for performance tuning, DevOps, CI/CD, and FinOps cost optimization.
- Lead modernization & migration of legacy platforms (e.g., Teradata, Oracle, Hadoop) to cloud-native solutions (Ex: Snowflake).
- Create comprehensive migration plans to Snowflake, and other cloud ecosystems.
- Champion data sharing and clean room strategies to unlock value in partner and third-party data collaboration.
- Stay ahead of evolving data and cloud technologies to advise clients with future-ready solutions.
- Publish reference architectures, case studies, and internal playbooks.
- Mentor rising architects and consultants across the organization to scale expertise and impact.
What You Will Have:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 15+ years of experience in data architecture, cloud modernization, and client-facing consulting roles.
- Strong track record in designing and delivering modern data platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Demonstrated experience in data migration projects (e.g., Teradata, Hadoop, Oracle to Databricks/Snowflake).
- Deep understanding of data modeling, data governance, and marketing analytics use cases.
- Solid understanding of modern data architectures (data lakehouse, streaming-first pipelines, real-time analytics).
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead enterprise solutioning engagements and gain cross-functional alignment.
- Experience with security and compliance controls on Data: encryption, auditing, access controls.
- Familiarity with cost optimization and performance tuning best practices in cloud environments.
What Will Set You Apart:
- Snowflake certifications (SnowPro Core or Advanced Architect), and cloud platform certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Experience with industry use cases in marketing analytics, clean rooms, customer 360, or real-time segmentation.
- Demonstrated success in solutioning roles within client-facing teams and agile delivery models.
- Experience with data security best practices, including access control, encryption, and compliance frameworks.
Location:
Remote, Continental US (Preferably in Texas or Arkansas)
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Primary Location City/State:
Homebased - Conway, ArkansasAdditional Locations (if applicable):
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