Job Title: Data Architect
Onsite :Tallahassee, FL 32311- Onsite
Duration: one year
Interview Mode: Video
Required Skills
Skill Category
Core Competency
Required / Preferred
Strategic Value to the Department
Experience (Years)
Orchestration & ETL
Azure Data Factory (ADF)
Required
Pipelines, Mapping Data Flows, Integration Runtimes (Self-Hosted/Azure), CI/CD parameterization, REST API triggers.
Data Warehousing
Snowflake
Required
Multi-cluster virtual warehouses, zero-copy cloning, Snowpipe, Time Travel, RBAC, cost optimization, and micro-partitioning.
Relational & SQL
T-SQL / Azure SQL / Synapse
Required
Complex indexing, execution plan tuning, partitioning, stored procedures, CTEs, dynamic SQL, and window functions.
Analytics & BI
Power BI
Preferred
DAX, Star Schema modeling, Composite Models, DirectQuery over Snowflake/Synapse, Row-Level Security (RLS), Service Admin.
Data Lake & Storage
Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2)
Preferred
Delta Lake format, POSIX access control lists, Lifecycle Management policies, hierarchical namespaces, and zone partitioning.
Big Data Warehousing & Analytics
Snowflake (Snowpark & Streams)
Required
Snowpark (Python/Scala) for scalable data engineering and ML; Streams for CDC; Tasks for orchestration; Time Travel & RBAC for governance; credit-aware cost optimization with multi-cluster virtual warehouses.
Governance & Quality
Microsoft Purview
Preferred
Automated lineage tracking, data classification rules, business glossary mapping, and access governance policies.
Data Modeling
ER/Studio, Erwin, or SQLDBM
Required
Conceptual, Logical, and Physical data modeling; Kimball Dimensional Modeling; Data Vault 2.0 methodology.
Infrastructure & DevOps
Terraform / Azure DevOps
Required
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Azure resources, YAML build/release pipelines, Git workflow management.
Security & Compliance
Azure Key Vault & Entra ID
Required
Private Endpoints, Managed Identities, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), column/row-level encryption.
Security & Governance
Managed Identity, Key Vault, and RBAC
Required
Securing data at rest and in transit using Managed Identity, Key Vault, and RBAC while maintaining automated lineage via Purview.
Semantic Layering
Star/Snowflake schemas
Preferred
Designing enterprise dimensional models optimized for high-performance Power BI DirectQuery and Import models.
Storage & Warehouse Optimization
Azure Data Lake Storage
Preferred
Structuring ADLS Gen2 landing, bronze, silver, and gold zones; configuring Snowflake warehouses for optimal performance and credit control.
End-to-End Pipeline Design
Azure Data Factory
Azure Event Hubs
Snowflake (Snowpipe / Streams / Tasks)
Preferred
Architecting resilient ingestions patterns using ADF for batch loads and Event Hubs for real-time; landing to Snowflake via Snowpipe and Streams, orchestration with Snowflake Tasks and monitoring via query history.