Senior Data Architect - Snowflake

Empower • Overland Park, KS

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Data Architect at Empower, you will be both a strategic leader and hands on technical expert shaping our enterprise data analytics platform and data product architecture. Partnering with enterprise architects, business leaders, and IT teams, you will define solution architectures, establish scalable platform patterns, and guide teams toward secure, high performing, cost efficient data capabilities. You will influence key architectural decisions, mentor teams, and help advance technology excellence through practical standards, reusable templates, and strong engineering outcomes.

Requirements

• Working knowledge of Snowflake capabilities such as warehouses and workload management, cost controls, secure sharing, Tasks and Streams, and platform security controls
• Deep experience delivering enterprise analytics and data platform solutions, typically gained through about 5 to 12 years in a data specialty such as engineering, platforms, or analytics, with 2+ years leading end to end solution design for complex initiatives
• Strong SQL capability including performance tuning fundamentals, plus proficiency in Python or a comparable language used for data engineering and automation
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Nice To Haves

• Data ingestion and pipeline specialist experience with CDC and batch ELT approaches, orchestration tooling, and strong patterns for data quality and observability aligned to SLAs or SLOs
• Cost and performance specialist experience applying FinOps practices, workload right sizing, storage optimization, and performance engineering across Snowflake and adjacent cloud services
• Applied AI and GenAI specialist experience designing safe enterprise patterns for retrieval, evaluation, monitoring, and responsible AI adoption
• Certifications such as SnowPro or AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Associate or Professional

Responsibilities

• Own end to end solution architecture for connecting source systems to the enterprise analytics platform and delivering governed, performant, reusable data products for analytics and machine learning use cases
• Define reference architectures and implementation patterns for Snowflake based solutions, including storage integration and stages, networking connectivity, key management, secure sharing, replication and disaster recovery approaches, and workload and warehouse strategy
• Establish and promote architectural standards, best practices, and review mechanisms while mentoring and coaching technology team members to ensure consistent adoption
• Collaborate with business and engineering teams to design end to end solutions that meet strategic, technical, and operational objectives and can be delivered incrementally

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
• Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
• Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
• Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
• Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree