Snowflake Lead/Architect

Role & responsibilities

Job Description Snowflake Lead

Location: Bangalore / Chennai
Experience: 7-12 Years
Employment Type: Full-Time
Work Model: Hybrid

About Mastech Digital

Mastech Digital is a leading Data Engineering, Analytics, and AI solutions company that helps global enterprises modernize their data ecosystems and accelerate business value through cloud, analytics, and AI-driven innovation. We deliver enterprise-scale data transformation programs by combining deep domain expertise, modern engineering practices, and cutting-edge technologies.

Role Overview

We are hiring a hands-on Snowflake Data & AI Engineering Lead to design, build, and lead enterprise-scale solutions on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. This role combines strong Snowflake engineering, modern data platform architecture, production-grade data pipelines, governance, performance optimization, and practical AI-enabled data capabilities.

The ideal candidate is a technical lead who can own solution design and delivery, mentor engineers, partner with architects and business stakeholders, and help customers build AI-ready data foundations using Snowflake, cloud-native engineering practices, and governed AI/ML capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Solution Ownership

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-scale Snowflake-based data platforms.
• Drive technical decisions, solution design reviews, and implementation best practices.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to data engineers and development teams.
• Promote engineering excellence through code reviews, design governance, and knowledge sharing.

Snowflake Development & Optimization

• Design and develop scalable data warehouse solutions leveraging Snowflake capabilities.
• Build and optimize complex ELT/ETL pipelines supporting analytics and reporting workloads.
• Apply advanced Snowflake platform capabilities for ingestion, orchestration, cloning, recovery, secure data sharing, workload management, and scalable compute optimization.
• Drive performance tuning, query optimization, and cost governance initiatives.

Data Engineering & Integration

• Develop robust data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration frameworks.
• Build reusable data models and data processing components.
• Integrate Snowflake with cloud platforms, enterprise applications, and BI tools.
• Ensure data quality, reliability, scalability, and availability across the data ecosystem.

Cloud & Modern Data Platforms

• Design cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS, Azure, or GCP services.
• Support implementation of Lakehouse and modern analytics architectures.
• Contribute to automation initiatives using CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and DataOps principles.

Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate closely with business users, product owners, architects, and analytics teams.
• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Present technical recommendations and solution approaches to senior stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• 7-12 years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, or Analytics Engineering.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience developing solutions on Snowflake.
• Strong expertise in Snowflake architecture, advanced SQL, dimensional and analytical data modeling, data warehousing concepts, and ELT/ETL design patterns.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with modern data engineering tools across transformation, ingestion, orchestration, integration, and pipeline automation; exposure to platforms such as dbt, Matillion, Fivetran, Informatica, Talend, Airflow, or Azure Data Factory is valuable.
• Proficiency in Python and Shell Scripting.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and version control using Git.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• SnowPro Core or Advanced Snowflake Certification.
• Experience with Databricks, Spark, Kafka, or modern streaming architectures.
• Knowledge of Data Lake and Lakehouse architectures.
• Experience working with Terraform, CloudFormation, or Infrastructure as Code frameworks.
• Understanding of data governance, security, compliance, and metadata management.
• Exposure to AI/ML and advanced analytics workloads.

What Will Make You Successful

• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to lead delivery from design through production deployment.
• Ability to influence technical decisions and guide engineering teams.
• Passion for mentoring and developing talent.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced enterprise transformation programs.

Why Join Mastech Digital?

• Work on large-scale cloud and data modernization initiatives.
• Partner with global enterprise customers across diverse industries.
• Gain exposure to modern Data Engineering, Analytics, and AI ecosystems.
• Collaborate with highly skilled architects, engineers, and domain experts.
• Accelerate your career in a fast-growing organization focused on innovation and technology leadership.

Preferred candidate profile

Looking for a lead/Architect.