Principal Solution Architect - Data Platform Security

Role Overview

We are looking for a Principal Solution Architect to join our Managed Services team. In this role, you will lead the architecture, security posture, and continuous improvement of enterprise Snowflake platforms for complex, security-sensitive clients. You will own the loop from threat detection through remediation and serve as a senior technical leader across platform security, governance, and operational resilience.

You will collaborate closely with client stakeholders, internal engineers, security teams, and practice leadership to define enforceable standards, operate proactive monitoring and alerting pipelines, and guide key decisions across access, governance, network security, identity, and data protection. You will also help strengthen phData’s managed Snowflake offerings by improving processes, automation, and reusable patterns that increase the quality and scalability of secure managed services delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, hardening, and continuous security improvement of enterprise Snowflake platforms across complex, security-sensitive client environments, ensuring strong controls, resilience, and long-term maintainability.
• Translate business, security, and technical requirements into operating models, roadmaps, and engineering work that strengthen platform controls, access patterns, governance, and secure delivery practices.
• Design and lead proactive monitoring, alerting, and threat detection across Snowflake environments using native audit and telemetry data, integrating with SIEM or similar platforms to detect, investigate, and remediate anomalous or unauthorized activity.
• Use threat modeling and attack-path analysis to identify and remediate risk across access models, data sharing, network controls, identity posture, third-party integrations, service accounts, secrets management, and configuration drift.
• Guide architectural and operational decisions across governance, authentication, privileged access, network security, and data protection, balancing platform risk, business priorities, compliance requirements, and performance goals.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and senior technical leader across client stakeholders, internal engineers, and partner teams, clearly communicating trade-offs, platform risks, and remediation plans while guiding difficult decisions in complex environments.
• Contribute to and improve managed services standards by creating automation, runbooks, accelerators, and best p