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This is a senior, client-facing role for an architect who is equally comfortable whiteboarding a platform strategy with an executive and diving deep into technical design with an engineering team.\r\nServe as the primary technical point of contact for client stakeholders and executives; lead engagement planning, sprint ceremonies, and executive status reporting\r\nProactively identify and communicate risks, blockers, and scope changes with proposed resolutions; partner with project managers and practice leadership on delivery health\r\nOwn end-to-end Snowflake platform architecture including objects, governance models, and security at SnowPro Advanced: Architect depth\r\nArchitect Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion data models optimized for Snowflake performance and downstream BI consumption\r\nDesign and govern API strategy for exposing data products, including integrations with internal applications, external partners, and SaaS platforms via API-driven and event-based patterns on AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, EventBridge, SQS)\r\nImplement secure API authentication patterns including OAuth2 and token-based access; manage API lifecycle and cataloging aligned to enterprise standards\r\nTranslate healthcare payer business requirements — spanning claims, member, provider, eligibility, and care management domains — into scalable data and integration architectures that comply with HIPAA, PHI/PII protection policies, and payer-specific regulatory standards\r\nLead dbt model design including materialization strategy, macros, packages, snapshots, and testing; establish GitLab CI/CD pipelines and enforce coding and documentation standards\r\nArchitect Snowflake-AWS integrations across S3, IAM, VPC, PrivateLink, and Glue; monitor pipeline SLAs and costs and lead root-cause analysis for incidents; support migration of legacy data feeds to modern cloud-based, event-driven architectures\r\nManage and mentor data and analytics engineers; drive enablement on Snowflake, dbt, and GitLab best practices and contribute reusable accelerators to the broader practice\r\nThis role can be performed from anywhere in the US\r\nRequired technical and professional expertise\r\n8+ years in data engineering, data warehousing, or solution architecture roles\r\nClient-facing consulting or professional services delivery experience with concurrent stakeholder and team management\r\n3+ years hands-on Snowflake experience: warehouse management, clustering, RBAC, security model, Streams, Tasks, and Dynamic Tables\r\ndbt Core or Cloud: materialization strategies, macros, packages, snapshots, and testing framework\r\nGitLab CI/CD: pipeline configuration, merge request workflows, and dbt integration\r\nAWS production experience: S3, Glue, IAM, VPC, PrivateLink, and Secrets Manager\r\nSQL and Python proficiency for pipeline development and automation\r\nHealthcare payer domain knowledge spanning claims, member, provider, eligibility, care/case management, and risk adjustment\r\nFamiliarity with HIPAA, PHI/PII data protection requirements, and secure healthcare data integration standards\r\nPreferred technical and professional experience\r\nSnowflake SnowPro Advanced: Architect certification\r\nAWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty or equivalent\r\nSnowflake Cortex AI/ML functions and agentic data workflows\r\nSnowflake Iceberg tables and external volume architecture\r\nTerraform for Snowflake and AWS infrastructure-as-code\r\nEvent-driven integration patterns: EventBridge, Kinesis, SQS for operational and analytic data movement\r\nEnterprise metadata, lineage, and data governance tooling\r\nExperience designing secure healthcare APIs with strict PHI/PII access controls\r\nIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. 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