Data Architect

Snowflake Data Architect (Wealth Management)

Location: NJ or Dallas (Local candidates strongly preferred)

Experience: 14-18 Years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Role Overview

As a Snowflake Data Architect , you will lead the design and evolution of a large-scale cloud-based Data Ingestion Platform supporting a Wealth Management client. You will define enterprise architecture standards, guide engineering teams, collaborate with client stakeholders, and ensure scalable, secure, and cost-efficient data solutions.

The ideal candidate combines:

• Strategic thinking
• Strong Snowflake experience
• Team leadership capabilities
• Consulting and stakeholder management skills

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Define end-to-end Snowflake architecture strategy and roadmap.
• Design scalable and resilient data ingestion frameworks.
• Architect enterprise data warehouses, data marts, and modern data platforms.
• Establish standards for data modeling, metadata management, governance, and lineage.
• Design ELT/ETL frameworks leveraging Snowflake best practices.
• Lead architecture reviews and technology evaluations.
• Optimize Snowflake performance, scalability, and cost management.
• Ensure security, compliance, and regulatory requirements are met.
• Drive ingestion of structured, semi-structured, and streaming data.
• Design frameworks for batch and real-time data processing.
• Define monitoring, observability, and data quality standards.
• Partner with DevOps teams to build CI/CD-enabled DataOps practices.
• Guide implementation teams through architecture-to-delivery lifecycle.
• Act as a trusted advisor to client technology and business stakeholders.
• Lead architecture workshops and solution discussions.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Support strategic planning, estimation, and solution governance.
• Lead and mentor architects, leads, and data engineers.
• Establish engineering best practices and architecture standards.
• Conduct code reviews, design reviews, and solution assessments.
• Drive delivery excellence across distributed teams.
• Support hiring, capability development, and talent mentoring initiatives.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 14-18 years of overall experience in data engineering and data architecture.
• Minimum 5+ years of hands‑on Snowflake architecture experience.
• Experience leading data modernization and cloud migration initiatives.
• Strong consulting and client engagement experience.

Snowflake Expertise

• Snowflake architecture and platform design
• Snowflake performance tuning
• Data sharing and secure data exchange
• Snowpark
• Dynamic Tables
• Streams & Tasks
• Data Governance
• Security architecture
• Advanced SQL
• Data Modeling (Dimensional & Data Vault)
• ETL/ELT Design
• Data Warehousing
• Real-Time Data Processing
• Data Quality Frameworks
• Metadata Management

Strong experience with AWS is a MUST

Tools & Technologies

Experience with several of the following:

• DBT
• Airflow
• Matillion
• Informatica
• Kafka
• Spark
• Python
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins

Preferred Qualifications

• Snowflake certification(s).
• Cloud Solution Architect certifications.
• Experience working in consulting organizations.
• Exposure to AI/ML-enabled data ecosystems.
• Experience managing globally distributed teams.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

Strategic Thinking

Ability to align enterprise data architecture with business objectives.

Executive Communication

Comfort presenting architecture recommendations to Directors, VPs, and C-level stakeholders.

Consulting Mindset

Ability to drive client outcomes while balancing technology, cost, and business priorities.

Coaching & Mentorship

Track record of developing architects and engineering leaders.

Ownership

Ability to drive architecture from concept through successful implementation.

About Incedo

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Incedo Inc. is a high-growth Digital, Data and AI Transformation Specialist firm headquartered in New Jersey. We are a long-term strategy execution partner for Fortune 500 enterprises, operating at the intersection of business and technology across Banking & Payments, Wealth Management, Telecom, Hi-Tech, and Life Sciences.

We are building Incedo 4.0 - an AI-native, execution-focused, founder-led organization designed for scale, speed, and long-term impact.

Incedo delivers ROI from AI @ Scale through the "Power of 3":

• Engineering & Operations excellence

Why Join Us

As a trusted advisor to our clients, we combine strategy, architecture, data excellence, and execution to solve complex business problems at scale. We are looking for a highly accomplished Snowflake Data Architect who can provide both technical leadership and consulting leadership while remaining hands‑on with architecture, design, and solution implementation.

This Fulltime role is ideal for someone with 14-18 years of experience , strong client‑facing consulting skills, and deep expertise in Snowflake-based data platforms.