Senior Data Architect - Snowflake

Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them.

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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.

What you will do:

• 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

What you will bring:

• 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

What will set you apart:

• 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 

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications of the job.  The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time.   You will be evaluated in part based on your performance of the responsibilities and/or tasks listed in this job description.   You may be required to perform other duties that are not included on this job description.  The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.

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