Job Description
Data Solution Architect - Snowflake & AWS n
Horizontal Talent Australia Pty Ltd - Sydney NSW
Data Solution Architect - Snowflake & AWS Remote - Anywhere in Australia | 6-month contract n
We are seeking an experienced
Data Solution Architect
to support a banking data modernisation program, moving on-premises data workloads to
Snowflake on AWS
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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: n
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Assess current on-premises data landscapes, data flows, source systems and dependencies.
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Define target-state data architecture across ingestion, storage, transformation, modelling and consumption.
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Design batch, incremental and near-real-time data ingestion patterns across AWS and Snowflake.
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Guide the migration of existing data pipelines, transformations and workloads to the target AWS-Snowflake solution.
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Define data quality, lineage, metadata, governance and security requirements.
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Establish performance, scalability, availability, observability and cost-optimisation principles.
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Produce architecture diagrams, solution designs, data-flow diagrams, standards and decision records.
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Provide technical leadership,



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