Senior Data Architect

Giggso Dallas, TX

Full Time Senior Level

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About This Role

Design, build, and integrate complex data architectures, focusing on Snowflake and Databricks, to support scalable growth and advanced analytics for enterprise operations. This role focuses on bridging business requirements with high-performance technical solutions.

Responsibilities

Define the long-term architectural roadmap for the data ecosystem, ensuring it supports scalable growth and advanced analytics
Design and implement seamless integrations between Snowflake (for warehousing) and Databricks (for lakehouse/AI workloads)
Architect pipelines and storage strategies for large-scale geospatial data, ensuring high-performance spatial querying and visualization capabilities
Oversee the development of robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and Hadoop ecosystems
Act as the primary architect for data privacy and security, ensuring all designs comply with GDPR, CCPA, or other relevant industry-specific regulations
Create and maintain enterprise-level conceptual, logical, and physical data models tailored for both structured and unstructured data

Requirements

Advanced proficiency in Snowflake (Snowpark, Streams, Tasks)
Advanced proficiency in Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables)
Deep experience with Apache Spark, Hadoop, and distributed computing principles
Experience with PostGIS, Esri, or Snowflake/Databricks native spatial functions and H3 indexing
Expert-level SQL
Expert-level Python (specifically PySpark)
Hands-on experience with data cataloging, lineage tools, and building Compliance by Design frameworks

Skills

Python * SQL * Snowflake * Databricks * Apache Spark * Delta Lake * PySpark * Hadoop * Esri * Unity Catalog * Delta Live Tables * Snowpark * PostGIS * H3 indexing *

* Required skills