Data Architect

Carnival Corporation•Seattle, WA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Holland America Line has been exploring the world since 1873. Our ships offer innovative features and enriching experiences focused on destination exploration and personalized travel, inviting guests to savor the journey. The Data Architect is the principal designer and steward of Holland America Line and Seabourn's enterprise data architecture, centered on our Snowflake-first platform. This role defines canonical data models, integration patterns, and governance standards that enable analytics, Customer 360, marketing activation, and AI/ML initiatives across the organization. Serving as the architectural authority across all data engineering PODs, the Data Architect ensures that solutions built by internal teams, offshore partners, and vendors conform to a coherent, scalable, and cost-efficient enterprise design.

Requirements

Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience
Proficiency and certification in Snowflake
Proficiency in cloud concepts
Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to work with diverse organizations and teams
Strong oral and written communication skills
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills
7 years of Architecture, Administration, and development experience in data warehousing, ETL, and BI
Experience in cloud concepts (minimum 3 years preferred)
Software engineering with experience in design, development, and scheduling batch scripts (minimum 5 years required)
Experience with a relational database (like Oracle, Snowflake, SQL Server, MySQL, Teradata or Netezza) (minimum 5 years required)
Experience in Snowflake

Responsibilities

Establish and maintain the target-state architecture for the Snowflake data platform (lakehouse patterns, medallion layering, schema design, naming conventions), and ensure all POD-level development conforms to these standards.
Enable AI/ML and advanced analytics foundations.
Optimize platform cost, performance, and scalability.
Define ingestion, CDC, ETL, and API patterns connecting Snowflake with multiple source and target systems.
Establish data governance, security, and compliance frameworks.