What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Data Architect position at Exiger?
We are seeking a Cloud Data Architect / Administratorto design, evolve, and maintain the data platforms that power our analytics and risk intelligence products. This role blends traditional data administration with modern data architecture - focusing not only on managing data systems, but also on shaping how data is modeled, governed, and integrated across our platforms.
What You'll Do
- Architect the evolution of our data ecosystem, helping to design and implement amedallion architecture(bronze/silver/gold layers) to support scalable, traceable data movement and quality monitoring.
- Plan and coordinate data cadences, ensuring that data ingestion and transformation processes are efficiently synchronized across layers.
- Lead the transition toward a hybrid data architecturebased onAWS S3,Apache Iceberg,Polaris, andTrino (or similar query engine)- while maintaining and optimizing our existingSnowflakeenvironment during the transition.
- Design and govern data modelsthat support both analytical and operational workloads, balancing cost, performance, and scalability.
- Collaborate with developers and analyststo define end-to-end data integration processes using ETL/ELT frameworks for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
- Administer and optimize Snowflake environments- including warehouse sizing, data clustering, cost optimization, and user access management - while planning for gradual migration of workloads to open table formats and object storage.
- Develop and maintain data infrastructure as codeusingTerraformand CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment, configuration and management of data resources.
- Evaluate and implement data cataloging, governance, and lineage tools, with an emphasis onPolarisfor metadata and discovery.
- Perform ongoing analysis of data storage and query performanceto improve efficiency, cost, and maintainability.
What You Need
- 5 years of experience indata architecture, warehousing, or administration.
- 3 years of hands-on experience withSnowflake, including performance tuning, cost optimization, and security.
- Strong experience withquery enginessuch asTrino,Athena, orPresto, andmetadata catalogssuch asPolarisorAWS Glue Catalog.
- Experience designing and maintainingdata lakesandopen table formats(e.g.,Iceberg,Delta, orHudi).
- Expertise inAWS data services- particularlyS3, Glue, IAM, Lambda, SQS, SNS, andSecrets Manager.
- Strong understanding ofdata modeling, schema design, and ELT/ETL best practices.
- Hands-on experience withPythonorJavafor automation and data pipeline development.
- Experience withstreaming data ingestion(Kafka, Kinesis, or equivalent).
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work across data engineering, DevOps, and analytics teams.
- Experience withTerraform,CI/CD pipelines, and moderndata orchestration tools(e.g., Airbyte, Matillion, or Airflow).
Nice to Have
- AWS or Snowflake certifications (SnowPro, AWS Data Analytics, or Solutions Architect).
- Experience implementingdata governance and lineagesolutions.
- Understanding ofdata meshandfederated data architectureprinciples.
- Experience infederal or regulated environmentswhere compliance, traceability, and data security are paramount.
#LI-Hybrid
This is a full-time hybrid opportunity, requiring 2 days a week in office.
Exiger is revolutionizing the way corporations, government agencies and banks manage risk and compliance with a combination of technology-enabled and SaaS solutions. In recognition of the growing volume and complexity of data and regulation, Exiger is committed to creating a more sustainable risk and compliance environment through its holistic and innovative approach to problem solving. Exiger's mission to make the world a safer place to do business drives its award-winning AI technology platform, DDIQ, built to anticipate the market's most pressing needs related to evolving ESG, cyber, financial crime, third-party and supply chain risk. Exiger has won 30 AI, RegTech and Supply Chain partner awards.
Exiger's core values are courage, excellence, expertise, innovation, integrity, teamwork and trust.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
Exiger's hybrid work policy is periodically reviewed and adjusted to align with evolving business needs.