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# Data Architect

- **Company:** ASCENT SERVICES GROUP LLC
- **Location:** Richmond, VA, United States
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Vault Modeling, Performance Tuning, Role-Based Access Control, SQL Databases, Talend, Informatica Powercenter, Snowflake, Data Layers, Star Schema, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** June 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8add5d2abfab0317

## About the Role

Do you have experience in System tuning?, Data Architecture

 * Building Pipelines using ETL
 * Snowflake
 * Cloud

## Description

* We are seeking a hands-on Data Architect with a strong ETL and Data Engineering background to design, build, and optimize large scale data ingestion, transformation, and delivery platforms.
 * This role is focused on creating reliable, observable, and high performance data pipelines that support enterprise analytics, reporting, and advanced AI/ML use cases.
 * You will architect end to end data engineering solutions across on prem and cloud platforms, lead data integration strategy, and establish best practices around data quality, monitoring, and operational excellence
 * Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake, including performance tuning, RBAC, resource management, and advanced Snowflake features.
 * Expertise designing analytical data models (Star/Snowflake schemas, data vault, semantic layers).
 * Proficiency with SQL, ELT/ETL frameworks, and cloud data services (Azure/AWS).
 * Experience building scalable data pipelines using tools like dbt, Airflow, ADF, Databricks, Informatica, Talend, or similar.
 * Experience with analytics and pipeline enablement.


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