Data Architect
Birkirkara, Birkirkara, Malta
BrainRocket
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We’re looking for a highly skilled Data Architect with experience in data warehousing to design and optimize our data platform. You’ll play a critical role in shaping our data ecosystem—defining architecture, ensuring scalability, and enabling advanced analytics and reporting across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance data architectures on AWS using Snowflake as the central data warehouse.
- Design and optimize ELT/ETL pipelines using tools such as dbt, Airflow, Glue, or similar.
- Lead the design of data models (star/snowflake schema, data vault, etc.) for analytics and operational reporting.
- Work with data engineers, BI, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Establish data governance, cataloging, and lineage practices
- Ensure compliance with data security, privacy, and regulatory standards
- Drive performance tuning, cost optimization, and best practices in Snowflake and across the data stack.
- Document architectural decisions and technical designs for team collaboration and future scalability.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in data engineering or architecture roles.
- Strong experience with AWS cloud services such as S3, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, IAM, and CloudFormation/Terraform.
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, and modern data pipeline frameworks (e.g., dbt, Airflow).
- Solid understanding of data modeling, data warehousing principles, and dimensional design.
- Experience with CI/CD practices and infrastructure as code in a data environment.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Nice to Have
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake (warehousing, performance tuning, data sharing)
- Experience integrating with BI tools like Power BI or Tableau.
- Knowledge of data lake architecture and streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis).
- Certifications in Snowflake or AWS (e.g., SnowPro Core, AWS Data Analytics Specialty).
✅ Why you should join us?
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Opportunity for career progress in a fast growing European company
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Private Health Insurance
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Corporate Discounts
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Regular team & company events
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People-oriented management without bureaucracy
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24 days of paid holidays
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Friendly team
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Full-time, in-house, standard business hours
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Competitive salary
Bold moves start here. Make yours. Apply today!
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Bold moves start here. Make yours. Apply today!
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Tags: Airflow Architecture AWS CI/CD CloudFormation Data Analytics Data governance Data warehouse Data Warehousing dbt ELT Engineering ETL Kafka Kinesis Lambda Pipelines Power BI Privacy Python Redshift Security Snowflake SQL Streaming Tableau Terraform
Perks/benefits: Career development Competitive pay Health care Team events
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