Data Solution Architect - Snowflake & AWS

Horizontal Talent Australia Pty Ltd - Sydney NSW

Data Solution Architect - Snowflake & AWS

Remote - Anywhere in Australia | 6-month contract

We are seeking an experienced Data Solution Architect to support a banking data modernisation program, moving on-premises data workloads to Snowflake on AWS .

This is a hands-on architecture role focused on defining the target data architecture, guiding migration and modelling decisions, and ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, resilient and operationally supportable.

About the role

You will:

- Assess current on-premises data landscapes, data flows, source systems and dependencies.
- Define target-state data architecture across ingestion, storage, transformation, modelling and consumption.
- Design batch, incremental and near-real-time data ingestion patterns across AWS and Snowflake.
- Guide the migration of existing data pipelines, transformations and workloads to the target AWS-Snowflake solution.
- Define data quality, lineage, metadata, governance and security requirements.
- Establish performance, scalability, availability, observability and cost-optimisation principles.
- Produce architecture diagrams, solution designs, data-flow diagrams, standards and decision records.
- Provide technical leadership,



design assurance and architecture governance through implementation and managed-service transition.
- Collaborate with customer, engineering, security, governance and managed-service teams, as well as Snowflake and AWS.

About you

You will bring:

- Strong hands-on architecture experience with Snowflake , including warehouses, databases, schemas, tables/views, stages, Snowpipe, Streams and Tasks.
- Solid AWS data architecture knowledge, particularly data ingestion, storage and integration services.
- Deep understanding of data architecture, data warehousing, lake/lakehouse, ETL/ELT, data integration and enterprise data modelling.
- Experience migrating and modernising on-premises data platforms to cloud data platforms.
- Strong knowledge of dimensional and relational modelling, data products and semantic/consumption layers.
- Experience with data quality, metadata, lineage, catalogue and governance.
- Understanding of IAM/RBAC, encryption, data masking, privacy and auditability.
- Experience with CI/CD, DataOps, monitoring and operational readiness.
- Strong understanding of Snowflake performance and cloud cost optimisation.
- Banking, financial services or other highly regulated enterprise experience is strongly preferred.
- Snowflake and/or AWS certifications, TOGAF, Power BI/semantic models and data governance platform experience are advantageous.

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