Lead Snowflake Architect

Location: Sydney, Australia

Duration: 6 Months Contract (Potential Extension)

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Experience

8+ years of overall experience, with significant hands-on experience in Snowflake architecture and administration.

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced Lead Snowflake Architect to lead and support the end-to-end Snowflake data platform architecture. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience across Snowflake architecture, administration, security, connectivity, performance optimisation, and troubleshooting.

This role requires someone who can take ownership of complex Snowflake environments and resolve end-to-end platform and connectivity issues while working closely with data engineering, infrastructure, security, and business teams.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the end-to-end architecture and design of Snowflake-based data platforms.
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for Snowflake implementations and enhancements.
- Manage and administer Snowflake environments, including warehouses, databases, schemas, roles, users, and access controls.
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performing Snowflake solutions.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex Snowflake connectivity, integration, and platform-related issues.
- Investigate issues related to network connectivity, authentication, security policies, private connectivity, and data access.
- Optimise Snowflake performance, including query optimisation, warehouse sizing, workload management, and cost optimisation.
- Implement and maintain Snowflake security, governance, role-based access control, and data protection standards.
- Support integrations between Snowflake and external applications, cloud platforms, ETL/ELT tools, and data pipelines.
- Work closely with Data Engineers, Cloud Engineers, DevOps teams, Security teams, and business stakeholders.
- Monitor Snowflake platform health, usage,



performance, and operational issues.
- Define and implement best practices for Snowflake administration, architecture, scalability, and reliability.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to engineers and other technical team members.

Mandatory Skills & Experience

- Extensive hands-on experience working with Snowflake Data Cloud.
- Strong experience in Snowflake architecture and end-to-end platform design.
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake Administration.

- Strong understanding of

- Virtual Warehouses

- Databases and Schemas
- Roles and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

- Users and Authentication

- Resource Monitors

- Query and Performance Optimisation

- Snowflake Security and Governance
- Proven experience troubleshooting complex Snowflake connectivity and integration issues.
- Solid understanding of Snowflake networking and connectivity concepts.
- Experience integrating Snowflake with cloud platforms and enterprise applications.
- Strong SQL and data warehousing experience.
- Experience with performance tuning and cost optimisation.
- Ability to independently analyse, troubleshoot, and resolve complex technical issues.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Preferred Skills

- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with ETL/ELT and data integration tools.
- Experience with Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, Energetic Tables, or other Snowflake-native capabilities.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices.
- Experience working in large enterprise data environments.

Snowflake certifications would be highly desirable. Pay: $600.00 – $750.00 per day

Application Question(s)

- Do you have hands-on Snowflake Architecture experience?
- Have you independently resolved Snowflake connectivity/networking issues?
- Do you have hands-on Snowflake Administration experience?
- Can you work in/around Sydney?

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sydney NSW

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