Snowflake Architect

Company Description

Blend is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people. With a mission to fuel bold visions, Blend tackles significant challenges by seamlessly aligning human expertise with artificial intelligence. The company is dedicated to unlocking value and fostering innovation for its clients by harnessing world-class people and data-driven strategy. We believe that the power of people and AI can have a meaningful impact on your world, creating more fulfilling work and projects for our people and clients. For more information, visit www.blend360.com

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced and hands-on Manager – Snowflake Data Engineering to lead and expand our data engineering capabilities. This role is ideal for a technically strong leader who can design scalable data architectures, manage a high-performing team, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver reliable and secure data solutions.

Responsibilities: 

• Design and implement robust Snowflake data warehouse architectures and ETL pipelines to support business intelligence and advanced analytics use cases.

• Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery of projects.

• Collaborate closely with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to understand data needs and design effective data models.

• Develop, document, and enforce best practices for Snowflake architecture, data modeling, performance optimization, and ETL processes.

• Own the optimization of Snowflake environments to ensure low-latency and high-availability data access.

• Drive process improvements, evaluate emerging tools, and continuously enhance our data engineering infrastructure.

• Ensure data pipelines are built with high levels of accuracy, completeness, and security, in compliance with data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).

• Partner with cloud engineering and DevOps teams to integrate data solutions seamlessly within the AWS ecosystem.

• Participate in capacity planning, budgeting, and resource allocation for the data engineering function.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• 9+ years of overall experience in cloud-based data engineering, with at least 4 years of hands-on experience in Snowflake.

• Proven track record in designing, deploying, and managing Snowflake data platforms at scale.

• Expertise in AWS services such as S3, Redshift, Lambda, Glue, etc.

• Strong command of SQL, Python, and other data manipulation languages.

• Experience managing and mentoring a team of engineers and leading cross-functional initiatives.

• Strong understanding of data governance, data security, and compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Additional Information

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

• Snowflake certification(s).

• Experience with additional cloud data warehouses (e.g., AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery).

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and modern development practices (CI/CD, Git, Jira, etc.).