Job Title - Data Architect - DBT Cloud and Snowflake

Type - Contract

Location - Markham, ON

Primary Skills

- Architect and implement advanced data solutions using Snowflake on AWS ensuring scalable secure and high performance data environments
- Extensive experience 8 years in data architecture and engineering with a proven track record in largescale data transformation programs ideally in insurance or financial services
- Proven experience in architecting and implementing advanced data solutions using Snowflake on AWS
- Expertise in design and orchestrating data acquisition pipelines using AWS Glue for ETLELT Snowflake OpenFlow and Apache Airflow for workflow automation enabling seamless ingestion of different data from diverse sources
- Deep expertise in Snowflake with hands on experience delivering Snowflake as an enterprise capability
- Handson experience with AWS Glue for ETLELT Apache Airflow for orchestration and dbt for transformation preferably deployed on AWS ECS
- Proficiency in SQL data modelling ETLELT processes
- Proven experience in DBT to manage and automate complex data transformations within Snowflake ensuring modular testable and version controlled transformation logic
- Experience in implementing the lake house solution Medallion architecture for financial or insurance carriers
- Experience in optimizing and tune Snowflake environments for performance cost and scalability including query optimization and resource management
- Experience in architecting lead migration of workloads from Cloudera to Snowflake




- Experience in evaluating the data technology platform including data governance suites data security products
- Develop robust data models and data pipelines to support data transformation integrating multiple data sources and ensuring data quality and integrity
- Document architecture data flows and transformation logic to ensure transparency maintainability and knowledge sharing across teams
- Robust knowledge of data lifecycle mgmt data retention data modelling and working knowledge of cloud computing and modern development practices

Secondary Skills

- Familiarity with data mesh principles data product delivery and modern data warehousing paradigms
- Experience in Designing Streamlit apps and define new capabilities and data products leveraging snowflake ML and MLOPS capabilities
- SnowPro advanced certification preferred
- Knowledge of scripting languages PythonJava
- Experience with data governance metadata management and data quality frameworks eg Collibra Informatica
- Experience in Insurance Domain
- Experience in converting policydata conversion from legacy to modern platform
- Exposure to enterprise Datawarehouse solution like Cloudera AWS Redshift and informatica tool sets IDMC powercenter BDM

Skills

- Mandatory Skills : Data Architecture, Data lakehouse Architecture

"We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law."

📌 Data Architect - DBT Cloud and Snowflake (Markham)
🏢 Enterprise Solutions
📍 Markham