Solutions Architect III - Snowflake (Plano)

Solutions Architect - Snowflake

The Solutions Architect - Snowflake will work with business stakeholders, solution architects and technical area leads to identify real-world problems and propose advanced solutions supporting day-to-day decision-making in various functional areas. This role reports to the Director, IT Data & Analytics and serves as an integral part of the Data & Analytics IT team.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities :

• Help to define short- and long-term roadmaps for data platforms or their specific areas.
• Conduct solution assessments and / or design solutions to ensure that functional and technical specifications meet the identified business needs within the organization.
• Be involved in technology and methodology evaluation for various business functions analytical use cases, including Data Mesh and AI-led applications.
• Be involved in POV and POC activities which will involve Snowflake and ETL tools such as Azure Data Factory (ADF).
• Engage in and facilitate stakeholder discussions to understand, analyze and document business requirements, business processes, and technical specifications (including system architecture documentation).
• Configure, develop and support applications used in our Data & Analytics tech stack (Snowflake, ADF and Power BI).
• Design and specify integrations between solutions collaborating with stakeholders and other IT teams.
• Create / review test plans and scripts; Conduct / participate in testing the solution to ensure the solution meets functional and technical requirements.
• Contribute to the growth of Snowflake technology practice and participate in the roadmap and go-to-market strategy definition.
• Lead system maintenance (review application patch, document test plan, and execute test scripts).
• Participate in the process for collection of requirements and writing of validation documents.
• Follow Integer standards for validation, project management and SDLC.
• Participate in and contribute to status and planning meetings.
• Schedule and facilitate meetings, document action items, follow-up to drive resolution.
• Create presentations to help communicate complex technical, organizational, and project concepts and status.
• Research and advise on the best technologies to leverage and / or approach to take in developing a system architecture or upgrades to install.
• Capacity to see the big picture, develop plans and architectures with a global mindset.
• Ability to account for project challenges on constraints including, risk, time, resources and scope.
• Assist in the development of solutions roadmaps.

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U.S. Applicants : EOE / AA Disability / Veteran