Data Architect - Databricks and Snowflake

Data Architect- Snowflake and DatabricksDepartment: Data Centre of Excellence (Data COE) Location: Seattle, Washington Experience: 12–18 Years (Principal IC) Category Skills / ToolsMulti-Cloud Platforms Azure, AWS, GCP – architecture, deployment, governanceData Warehousing Snowflake – multi-cloud, RBAC, masking, cloning, sharing, SnowparkLakehouse & Big Data Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, Apache SparkStreaming & Orchestration Apache Kafka (enterprise streaming), Apache Airflow (DAG design, reliability)Infrastructure & IaC Kubernetes (operators, isolation), Terraform (IaC standards, CI/CD)AI/ML Data Infra MLflow (tracking, registry), Feast (feature store), Vector DBs (Pinecone, FAISS)APIs & Serving API Gateway strategy – access control, versioning, onboardingObservability & Reliability Prometheus, Grafana, chaos engineering, incident response, capacity planningGovernance & Leadership Architecture Decision Records, mentoring, review boards, standards documentationData Quality & Catalog (Good-to-Have) dbt, Great Expectations, DataHub, AmundsenEmerging Tech (Good-to-Have) Apache Iceberg, Data Mesh, LLM/GenAI pipelines