Snowflake Data Lake Architect

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Position: Snowflake Data Lake Architect

100% Remote

The Data Lake Architect will be a part of the Enterprise Data Team responsible for the systems architecture, design, development, and administration of a large, scaled-out, real-time, high performing, multi-tenant Snowflake data lake infrastructure, allowing Performance Food Group to leverage data effectively for internal and external data ingestion, stream processing, advanced analysis, and applications.

Essential Responsibilities:

As the Data Lake Architect, you will:

• Architect, design, develop and administer big data infrastructure platform, primarily based on a Snowflake data platform, ensuring that the infrastructure is highly available and secure.
• Architect and build security compliant user management framework for multi-tenant big data platform.
• Work closely with management and data scientist teams to define and refine the big data platform to achieve company product and business objectives.
• Collaborate with other technology teams and architects to define and develop cross-function technology stack interactions.
• Research and experiment with emerging technologies and tools related to data lake workloads.
• Work with the cross functional teams to establish and reinforce disciplined software development processes and best-practices.
• Administer and support the data lake platform on a day-to-day basis.
• Be proficient with design patterns for data lake data ingestion as well as data lake governance.
• Work closely with the product management and development teams to rapidly translate the understanding of customer data and requirements to product and solutions.
• Set architectural vision and direction across a matrix of teams.
• Be proficient in SQL and ETL processes, ETL and DB performance tuning, table partitioning, shell scripting, driving prototypes and POCs.
• Provide back up support to the DBA team supporting the enterprise data warehouse on Snowflake.