Snowflake Data Architect

About the role

The Snowflake Data Architect will design, configure and maintain Snowflake environments for the Ritz‑Carlton Yacht Collection, supporting development, staging and production workloads. The role starts remotely and will transition to an on‑site location in CABA, Buenos Aires.

Key responsibilities

• Design, configure and maintain Snowflake environments, including virtual warehouses, resource monitors and auto‑scaling policies.
• Administer RBAC, network policies, SSO/SAML integrations and data masking.
• Monitor platform health, set up alerting and lead incident response for data availability issues.
• Develop efficient SQL queries, stored procedures, tasks, streams and dynamic tables.
• Architect and maintain data models (star, snowflake, data vault) and optimize ELT/ETL pipelines using Snowpark, dbt, Fivetran, Matillion or Azure Data Factory.
• Implement Snowflake features such as zero‑copy cloning, time travel, data sharing and Marketplace integrations.
• Conduct query profiling, tuning, clustering key design and cost attribution analysis.
• Define and enforce development standards, data governance policies and best practices across the data team.

Required profile

• 7+ years of experience in Data & Analytics, with extensive Snowflake expertise.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.
• Proven experience with RDBMS, NoSQL databases, data modeling, ETL/ELT and data quality processes.

Required skills

• Snowflake platform administration
• SQL, Snowpark (Python, Java, Scala)
• Data modeling (star, snowflake, data vault)
• ELT/ETL tools: dbt, Fivetran, Matillion, Azure Data Factory
• SSO/SAML, RBAC, network policies
• Query profiling and performance tuning
• Cost management and optimization