Snowflake Architect

Akkodis is seeking a Snowflake Architect for a Contract with a client in Minneapolis, MN/ Dallas, TX
. The ideal candidate requires hands‑on Snowflake architecture expertise while guiding on‑prem Cloudera migrations and implementing governance, performance tuning, and automation across cloud environments.

Rate Range: $55/hour to $60/hour;
The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

• Design and implement scalable data lake architectures using Snowflake and Databricks, ensuring efficient data ingestion, transformation, and storage.

• Lead and guide the migration of on‑prem Cloudera environments to Azure cloud services, including Synapse, Databricks, and Snowflake.

• Manage data governance, security, and quality frameworks across cloud platforms while implementing performance tuning, automation, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Administer, monitor, and optimize Cloudera Hadoop clusters (HDFS, YARN, Hive, Spark) to ensure high availability, performance, and operational reliability.

• Troubleshoot Linux, network, and cluster‑level issues while supporting users in debugging and optimizing Hive, Spark, and Python workloads.

• Implement enterprise security solutions including Kerberos, Ranger, Atlas, Hashi Corp Vault, and Cyber Ark, and maintain documentation and vendor collaboration for upgrades and compliance.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related field.

• 8–12 years of overall experience, with at least 5+ years in Snowflake, Cloud Data Engineering, or Data Lake Architecture.

• Proven hands‑on experience migrating on‑prem Hadoop/Cloudera environments to Azure cloud (Snowflake, Synapse, Databricks).

• Strong expertise in performance tuning, data governance, and cloud security frameworks across enterprise data platforms.

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Pay Details: $55.00 to $60.00 per hour

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

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Military connected talent encouraged to apply

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