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# Senior Specialist - Architecture (Sr Snowflake Data Platform Architect)

- **Company:** LTM Inc
- **Location:** Berkeley Heights, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $98,015.0 - $146,600.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** 3d Models, Artificial Intelligence, Computing Platforms, ARM Architecture, JIRA, Software as a Service, Customer Data Management, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Synchronization, Relational Databases, Dimensional Modeling, OpenFlow, Performance Tuning, Power BI, Salesforce.Com, SAP (Applications), Enterprise Data Management, Data Ingestion, Azure Data Factory, Sql Optimization, Snowflake, Data Layers, Data Analytics, Qlikview, Data Pipelines, Workday, Servicenow
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e9fc7dc9bc13a843

## About the Role

This role operates as a Senior individual contributor within the enterprise data platform organization The Senior Snowflake Data Platform Architect contributes hands on expertise while executing within established architectural guardrails defined by Platform Architects
Typically, 7 to 10 years of experience in data engineering analytics or data architecture roles
3 years of hands on experience working with Snowflake in enterprise environments
Supports onboarding of individual systems or domains into Snowflake
Designs analytics ready data models and semantic views aligned to existing platform standards
Escalates major architectural trade offs and risks to Platform Architects, Strong hands on experience with Snowflake as an enterprise analytics platform
Advanced SQL skills and strong background in relational data warehousing
Proven experience designing dimensional models and semantic data layers
Experience enabling BI platforms such as Power BI or Sigma
Experience working with ELT based ingestion pipelines and enterprise data tooling
Preferred Strong Plus Qualifications
Experience with Salesforce Data Cloud Data 360 and Salesforce data models
Exposure to Snowflake Cortex nonspecialist
Experience operating in large multiteam enterprise environments
Snowflake certifications such as SnowPro Core SnowPro Advanced Architect and or additional advanced or specialty certifications are a plus
Skills
Mandatory Skills : ETL Concepts, Snowflake, Snowflake AI/ML

## Description

We are seeking a Senior Snowflake Data Platform Architect to serve as a senior subject matter expert SME supporting a modern enterprise analytics platform built on Snowflake. This role partners closely with existing Platform Architects and senior technical leaders contributing deep expertise in analytics focused data architecture modeling reporting enablement ELT based system onboarding and enterprise data integration.
This individual is not the final architectural authority but a highly experienced practitioner who works alongside platform architects engineering teams and business stakeholders to onboard new data sources refine platform patterns and ensure Snowflake is used effectively for enterprise analytics and reporting use cases, Snowflake Platform Expertise
Act as a Snowflake subject matter expert partnering with Platform Architects to operationalize analytics architectures
Provide hands on guidance on schema design workload isolation performance tuning and cost optimization
Apply Snowflake best practices across ingestion transformation and consumption layers
System Onboarding Data Pipelines
Partner with technical teams and business stakeholders to onboard new source systems into Snowflake
Provide architectural guidance on ELT based ingestion and transformation patterns
Collaborate on pipelines using tools such as CDC Data Sync Qlik Replicate Azure Data Factory ADF OpenFlow or similar
Help define standards for incremental loading CDC data quality and reliability
Analytics Data Modeling
Design analytics optimized data models including star schemas fact dimension tables and reporting ready datasets
Apply modern patterns such as medallion architectures and curated semantic views
Reporting BI Enablement
Ensure Snowflake datasets are optimized for BI tools such as Power BI and Sigma
Partner with reporting teams to ensure metric consistency and reduce downstream modeling complexity
Enterprise SaaS Data Integration
Support analytical integration of data from systems such as Salesforce strong plus for Salesforce Data Cloud Data 360 SAP Workday Jira ServiceNow and similar platforms
Translate operational and SaaS native data models into analytics ready Snowflake structures
Collaboration Emerging Capabilities
Work closely with Platform Architects data engineering teams analytics teams and business stakeholders
Maintain foundational familiarity with Snowflake Cortex and partner with AI specialists when applicable


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