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Key Responsibilities:- Design and implement scalable data architectures to support data storage, processing, and analytics. - Design and implement data schemas within Snowflake to effectively support analytics, reporting needs. - Establish and enforce data access roles and policies. - Develop strategies to make data AI-ready, including data cleansing, transformation, and enrichment processes. - Provide guidance and support for analytical development and modelling to enhance data visualization and reporting capabilities. - Conduct performance tuning and optimization of data models to improve query efficiency and response times. - Develop, maintain, and optimize ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes for Pacific Data Analytics Platform to ensure efficient data integration from various sources (Both internal and external datasets) - Manage and optimize database / data warehouse systems such as snowflake ensuring high availability and performance. - Analyze and tune database performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements to enhance query performance. - Ensure data integrity, consistency, and accuracy through rigorous data quality checks and validations. - Work closely with data engineers, application engineers, analysts, and other stakeholders to understand data needs and provide appropriate solutions. - Leverage cloud technologies (mainly AWS) for data storage, processing, and analytics, ensuring cost-effectiveness and scalability. - Document data processes, architectures, and workflows while establishing best practices for data management and engineering. - Set up monitoring solutions to track data pipelines and database performance, ensuring timely maintenance and fault resolution. - Ability to quickly analyze existing SQL code and make improvements to enhance performance, take advantage of new SQL features, close security gaps, and increase robustness and maintainability of the code. - Implement data security measures and ensure compliance with relevant regulations regarding data protection and privacy. - Provide guidance and mentorship to junior data engineers, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.Key Qualifications:Experience: 15+ years of experience in Snowflake Solution Architect would be preferable.- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field with at least 10+ years of software development experience - Expert knowledge in Database like Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server (preferably cloud hosted), with strong programming experience in SQL. - Competence in data preparation and/or ETL tools like Snaplogic or Azure Data Factory or AWS Glue or SSIS (preferably strong working experience in one or more) to build and maintain data pipelines and flows. - Programming language experience in Python, shells scripts (bash/zsh, grep/sed/awk etc..). - Deep knowledge of databases, stored procedures, optimizations of huge data - In-depth knowledge of ingestion techniques, data cleaning, de-dupe, partitioning. - Experience with building the infrastructure required for data ingestion and analytics - Solid understanding of normalization and denormalization of data, database exception handling, transactions, profiling queries, performance counters, debugging, database & query optimization techniques - Familiarity with SQL security techniques such as data encryption at the column level, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), signed stored procedures, and assignment of user permissions - Experience in understanding the source data from various platforms and mapping them into Entity Relationship Models (ER) for data integration and reporting - Good understanding of Data Models, Data Architecture and Naming Conventions - Knowledge of data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) is a plus. - Exposure to Source control like GIT, Azure DevOps - Understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) - Preferably experience with NoSQL database to migrate data into other type of databases with real time replication. - Experience with CI/CD automation toolsPersonal Strengths:- Must have completed the certifications on Snowpro Advanced : Architect - Very good communication skills. - Ability to easily fit into a distributed development team. - Ability to manage timelines of multiple initiatives. - Ability to articulate insights from the data and help business teams make decisions - Able to work with ambiguous requirements, to seek clarity around uncertainty and to manage risks - Ability to communicate complex concepts to non-data audiences