Snowflake Architect

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At Card Works, we aim to help people connect with possibility and opportunity using our financial servicing expertise. Building meaningful, long-term relationships with consumers, our employees, and our clients is what matters most.

Card Works, Inc. is a diversified consumer finance service provider and parent company of Card Works Servicing, LLC, Merrick Bank and Carson Smithfield, LLC.

Card Works Servicing, LLC provides end-to end operational servicing functions for credit cards, secured cards, and installment loans. We service consumer and small business loans across the credit spectrum and offers backup servicing and due diligence services to capital providers and trustees.

Merrick Bank is an FDIC-insured Utah Industrial Loan Bank. Merrick operates three main business lines: credit cards, recreational lending, and merchant services.

Carson Smithfield, LLC provides a variety of post-charge-off debt recovery services, including digital self-service, IVR, live agent, and external agency management.

Snowflake Architect/Administrator responsible for planning, designing, developing, and maintaining the Snowflake environment including data architecture, data models, and standards for various Data Integration and Data Warehouse projects in Snowflake. Develop and maintain documentation of the data architecture, data flow, and data models of the data warehouse. Provide direction on adoption of Cloud technologies (Snowflake) and industry best practices in the field of data warehouse architecture and modelling.

This role requires a broad range of skills and the ability to step into different roles depending on the size and scope of the project.

• Contributes to the data strategy and its execution for the department, such as developing right architecture and enablement of Cloud Data Platform, PCI data tokenization & Detokenization capabilities.
• Design, develop and manage multiple Snowflake accounts & environments to support multi-legal entity business structures, complex technical projects and create high-level design and architecture of the solution, and infrastructure diagrams.
• Look out for newer and/or enhancements to existing features & capabilities in Snowflake space, perform value-vs risk-based assessment, bring them into the company, incorporate into company’s systems and processes, and drive adoption.
• Establish Snowflake best practices for managing load operations and performance.
• Establish standards, dashboards and monitor Snowflake accounts for user activities, credits consumptions, warehouses utilization, workloads etc.
• Provide resolution to an extensive range of complicated data pipeline related problems, proactively and as issues surface.
• Review the architectural/ technological solutions for ongoing projects and ensure the right choice of solution(s) is implemented.
• Work closely with business teams to understand their business, capture requirements, identify pain areas, propose an ideal solution, and implement.
• Gather end user requirements, convert them into technical requirements and documentation.
• Manages Snowflake data accessibility within Card Works organization.
• Acts as a technical, strong, and eloquent product advocate for Snowflake and our Cloud-based Data Management Platform.
• Educates the customers in, and fosters an awareness of, the capabilities of the product portfolio to stakeholders across the enterprise.
• Works with Product Sponsors and Stakeholders to identify opportunities to expand or improve analytic information available.
• Adherence to legal and company standards.
• Actively participates in D&A estimating and prioritization sessions.
• Helps to drive product capabilities and strategy.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Business, Analytics, or relevant field is required.
• Must have at least 5+ years of experience working as a Snowflake Data Architect and 10+ years of experience in Data Warehouse, ETL, and BI projects area.
• Experienc…