Snowflake Solution Architect - GXO

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At GXO, we’re constantly looking for talented individuals at all levels who can deliver the caliber of service our company requires. You know that a positive work environment creates happy employees, which boosts productivity and dedication. On our team, you’ll have the support to excel at work and the resources to build a career you can be proud of.

We are looking for a seasoned Snowflake Solutions Architect to lead the company’s data lake strategy and analytics architecture initiatives. This role will be instrumental in driving end-to-end architecture while adopting emerging technologies & building cloud-native design patterns and solution designs that deepen our understanding of business drivers and helps us achieve our strategic objectives.

Pay, benefits and more.

We are eager to attract the best, so we offer competitive compensation and a generous benefits package, including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, disability and more.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Lead the end-to-end data lake design and architecture strategy while adopting emerging technologies & building cloud-native design patterns and solution designs that deepen our understanding of business drivers and helps us achieve our strategic objectives.
• Engage with organizational stakeholders to align priorities, communicate solution design trade-offs and recommendations, and build and execute development plans.
• Define and implement a scalable and efficient data lake architecture that supports the storage, processing, and analysis to deliver data products. Collaborate with technology and architecture teams to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
• Oversee the design and implementation of robust data integration processes and pipelines for ingesting and transforming product data. Ensure seamless data flow across the organization and optimize data processing workflows
• Establish and execute a holistic data architecture strategy in line with business goals.
• Lead the assessment of emerging data trends and technologies, driving continuous innovation to keep the organization ahead in the evolving data landscape.
• Mentor and guide solution architects and engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement in data management practices.
• Design and implement highly scalable Snowflake architectures.
• Lead the integration of Snowflake with various data sources and business systems.
• Optimize and maintain Snowflake environments to ensure they meet the functional and technical requirements.
• Develop and execute data migration strategies from legacy systems to Snowflake leveraging Event-Driven-Architectures
• Define and enforce industry-aligned data architecture standards and best practices.
• Spearhead the design and execution of intricate data projects in line with organizational objectives and architectural guidelines.
• Offer technical direction to optimize scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency of data solutions, facilitating informed decision-making and widespread data utilization.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate data architecture into all aspects of the organization's operations, fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making and innovation.
• Support the development and execution of data integration strategies, ensuring seamless data flow across systems and platforms.
• Proven experience in a senior data architect role, with a demonstrated track record of delivering highly scalable, flexible, and cost-effective cloud-native enterprise data solutions.
• Excellent understanding of Snowflake Internals and integration of Snowflake with other data processing and reporting technologies
• Expert level proficiency with data architecture patterns– Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Data Mesh, Lake house, Data as a product
• Expert level proficiency in engineering & optimizing with various data engineering ingestion patterns - Batch, Micro Batch, Streaming and API

What you need to succeed at GXO:

At a minimum, you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, artificial intelligence, data science, or related
• 10+ years of experience implementing data management solutions, ie, ETL / ELT, Data Warehousing, etc.
• Expert-level knowledge in Snowflake, ie, setting up Resource Monitors, RBAC controls, scalable virtual warehouse design, SQL performance tuning, zero copy cloning, time travel, Snowpipe, Snowpipe Streaming, etc.
• Experience in handling semi-structured data (JSON, XML), columnar PARQUET using the VARIANT attribute in Snowflake.
• Experience in in re-clustering of the data in Snowflake with good understanding of Micro-Partitions.
• Experience in Migration processes to Snowflake from on-premise database environments.
• Experience in designing and building manual or auto ingestion data pipeline using Snowpipe Snowpipe Streaming, and Kafka.
• Experience in Cloud technologies, such as GCP – GCS, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, Cloud Functions, Cloud Deploy, Secrets Manager, etc.
• Design and Develop automated monitoring processes on Snowflake using a combination of Python, Airflow, Terraform, and dbt.
• Thorough understanding of current information systems technologies such as client/server, relational databases, web-based systems, and object-oriented design

It’d be great if you also have:

• Master’s degree
• Certified Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse Architect (Highly Desirable).
• Certified Solutions Architect in one of the major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP (highly desirable))We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, disability, veteran or other protected status.

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All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment may be required to take and pass a pre-employment drug test.

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