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# Snowflake Architect-Databricks

- **Company:** Snowflake Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Vault Modeling, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Cloud Services, SQL Databases, Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Data Lakes, Databricks
- **Published:** May 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/f884d0a9-6169-41f9-b56f-07615da84613

## About the Role

* 12+ years in data engineering/architecture with 5+ years hands-on Snowflake + 3+ years Databricks
 * Expert in Snowflake: architecture, performance tuning, Snowpipe, Snowpark, Time Travel, Zero-copy cloning
 * Strong Databricks: Delta Lake, Spark optimization, Unity Catalog, Jobs, DLT Deep SQL + Python/Scala. DBT experience for transformation layer
 * Cloud expertise: AWS preferred. S3, IAM, Glue, Kinesis integration with Snowflake/Databricks
 * Data modeling: Dimensional, Data Vault 2.0, lakehouse patterns
 * Experience with orchestration: Airflow, Dagster, or Azure Data Factory

## Description

We re looking for a Snowflake Architect with hands-on Databricks expertise to design and lead enterprise-scale data platform modernization. You ll own the strategy for migrating/building data lakes to lakehouse architecture using Snowflake + Databricks, ensuring scalability, governance, and cost optimization while enabling analytics + GenAI workloads.


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