Senior Snowflake Architect Platform & Administration

NMK Global Inc. is a global IT Services & Solutions company specializing in IT Staffing, Technology Consulting, Workforce Solutions, and Application Development Services. We help organizations build high-performing technology teams by connecting them with exceptional talent across a wide range of industries. Our expertise, industry knowledge, and consultative approach enable clients to achieve successful business outcomes while helping professionals advance their careers.

Job Title: Senior Snowflake Architect – Platform & Administration
Location: Remote

Primary Skills:
Snowflake, Snowflake Architecture, Snowflake Administration, SQL, Data Architecture, Data Engineering, ETL/ELT, Data Warehousing, AWS/Azure, Python, CI/CD, GitHub

Required Skills / Experience:

• 8–10+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Architecture, or Data Platform roles.
• 4–5+ years of hands-on Snowflake experience in architecture and administration.
• Strong expertise in Snowflake architecture, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Experience designing scalable Snowflake architectures for data warehouse, data lake, and data sharing use cases.
• Strong experience with dimensional modeling and analytical data models.
• Experience designing and operating batch and near real-time ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Snowflake Data Sharing and data integration.
• Experience with Bronze/Silver/Gold data layers, semantic views, and analytics-ready datasets.
• Knowledge of advanced Snowflake capabilities including Cortex AI and Data Agents.
• Experience with Snowflake security and governance features including RBAC, masking policies, row access policies, encryption, and Snowflake Horizon.
• Hands-on Snowflake platform administration across Development, Test, and Production environments.
• Experience managing warehouses, databases, schemas, users, roles, and resource monitors.
• Strong experience monitoring and optimizing Snowflake performance, availability, and cost.
• Experience with data sharing, replication, disaster recovery/failover, and backup strategies.
• Advanced SQL skills; Python experience preferred.
• Scripting and automation experience using Bash, Terraform, or similar tools.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitHub.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.
• Experience providing technical guidance to distributed/offshore Snowflake administration teams.
• Experience with predictive modeling and anomaly detection using Snowflake Cortex AI is preferred.
• Snowflake SnowPro Core certification preferred.

NMK Global Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and consider all qualified applicants without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.