What are the responsibilities and job description for the Snowflake Data Architect position at GSPANN Technologies, Inc?
About GSPANN
Headquartered in Milpitas, California (U.S.A.), GSPANN provides consulting and IT services to global clients, ranging from mid-size to Fortune 500 companies. With our experience in retail, high-technology, and manufacturing, we help our clients to transform and deliver business value by optimizing their IT capabilities, practices, and operations. Counting on our ten offices, including four global delivery centers, and approximately 1400 employees globally, we offer the intimacy of a boutique consultancy with capabilities of a large IT services firm.
Location: South San Francisco, CA
Duration: Long Term
Key Responsibilities
• Design and architect end-to-end data solutions leveraging Snowflake as the primary data warehouse.
• Build and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines using Matillion, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Develop data models (conceptual, logical, and physical) addressing business and analytical requirements.
• Define and enforce data governance, data quality, and metadata management standards.
• Work closely with product, BI, analytics, and engineering teams to translate business needs into architectural blueprints.
• Optimize Snowflake performance: clustering, micro-partitioning, caching, warehouse sizing, and cost governance.
• Integrate data from various structured and unstructured sources.
• Review existing data systems and recommend modernization opportunities.
• Ensure security best practices including role-based access control, encryption, and compliance.
• Create documentation, architectural diagrams, and data flow maps.
• Drive best practices for CI/CD, data testing, and DevOps for data pipelines.
Required Skills
• 10 years of experience in data engineering or data architecture roles.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Matillion ETL/ELT (jobs, orchestration, components, transformations).
• Deep understanding of Snowflake—warehouses, schema design, streams, tasks, materialized views, performance tuning.
• Proficiency in SQL, data modeling, and data warehouse concepts (Kimball/Inmon).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), especially AWS services like S3, Lambda, EC2, IAM.
• Strong understanding of batch and real-time data processing patterns.
• Knowledge of data governance, master data management, and metadata frameworks.
• Experience with version control (Git) and CI/CD workflows.
• Ability to create architecture diagrams using tools like Lucidchart, Draw.io, or Visio.
Working at GSPANN
GSPANN is a diverse, prosperous, and rewarding place to work. We provide competitive benefits, educational assistance, and career growth opportunities to our employees. Every employee is valued for their talent and contribution. Working with us will give you an opportunity to work globally with some of the best brands in the industry.
The company does and will take affirmative action to employ and advance in the employment of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans and to treat qualified individuals without discrimination based on their physical or mental disability status. GSPANN is an equal opportunity employer for minorities/females/veterans/disabled.