Sr. Architect | Data & Analytics/Databricks/Snowflake (Remote)
Senior Data Architect on Trace3's Data & Analytics consulting team: leads hands-on architecture, workshops, and delivery of client data platforms built on Snowflake, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric, covering lakehouse design, governance, CI/CD, and mentoring of client and internal engineering teams. Client-facing consulting role with periodic travel; pay is $170k–$200k.
- Compensation
- $170K–$200K / yr
- Location
- Atlanta, GA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of experience in data architecture, data engineering, analytics engineering, or a related technical consulting role
- Hands-on production experience with at least two of: Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric
- Experience designing and delivering enterprise or large-scale cloud data platforms
- Strong knowledge of data modeling, data integration, lakehouse and warehouse patterns, analytics architecture, and data governance
- Proficiency with SQL and Python, including reviewing and guiding production-quality code
- Experience with data pipeline orchestration, CI/CD, source control, automated testing, and environment promotion
- Experience leading architecture workshops, technical design sessions, or complex delivery initiatives
- Ability to explain technical decisions, alternatives, risks, and business impact to varied audiences
- Demonstrated ability to mentor technical teams and establish repeatable engineering standards
- Willingness and ability to travel periodically for client engagements, team meetings, or industry events
Nice to have
- Experience with all three target platforms: Snowflake, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric
- Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud data services
- Familiarity with Power BI, dbt, Kafka, Event Hubs, Airflow, Azure Data Factory, Terraform, Kubernetes, or comparable technologies
- Experience implementing data products, semantic layers, master data, metadata, data catalogs, or data contracts
- Experience with AI-ready data foundations, machine learning platforms, generative AI, or agent-consumable data architectures
- Experience with FinOps, workload optimization, platform operating models, or managed data services
- Relevant certifications in Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, data management, or enterprise architecture
- Experience in a professional services, systems integration, or client-facing consulting environment
Full description
Who is Trace3?
Trace3 is a leading Transformative IT Authority, providing unique technology solutions and consulting services to our clients. Equipped with elite engineering and dynamic innovation, we empower IT executives and their organizations to achieve competitive advantage through a process of Integrate, Automate, Innovate.
Our culture at Trace3 embodies the spirit of a startup with the advantage of a scalable business. Employees can grow their career and have fun while doing it!
Trace3 is headquartered in Irvine, California. We employ more than 1,200 people all over the United States. Our major field office locations include Denver, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Lexington, Los Angeles, Louisville, Texas, San Francisco.
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We are flexible and resilient in a fast-changing environment. We continuously innovate and drive constructive change while keeping a focus on the “big picture.” We exercise sound business judgment in making high-quality decisions in a timely and cost-effective manner. We are highly creative and can dig deep within ourselves to find positive solutions to different problems.
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We get things done and drive results. We lead without a title, empowering others through a can-do attitude. We look forward to the goal, mentally mapping out every checkpoint on the pathway to success, and visualizing what the final destination looks and feels like.
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We are humble individuals who understand how our job impacts the company's mission. We treat others with respect, admit mistakes, give credit where it’s due and demonstrate transparency. We “bring the weather” by exhibiting positive leadership and solution-focused thinking. We hug people in their trials, struggles, and failures – not just their success. We appreciate the individuality of the people around us.
Role Summary
Trace3 is seeking a Data Architect to join the Data and Analytics Services team. This role combines hands-on architecture, technical leadership, consulting, and delivery responsibility. The Data Architect will help clients design, modernize, govern, and operationalize data platforms that support analytics, artificial intelligence, reporting, and business decision-making.
The ideal candidate can move comfortably between executive conversations, architecture workshops, detailed technical design, and delivery oversight. You will establish practical architecture standards, guide engineering teams, evaluate platform trade-offs, and help ensure that solutions are secure, scalable, maintainable, and aligned to business outcomes.