Cloud Data Architect

Exiger

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
On-site
Design medallion architecture
Hybrid data architecture on aws s3
Apache iceberg and trino
Exiger is seeking a Cloud Data Architect to design and maintain data platforms that support their analytics and risk intelligence products. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in data architecture, particularly with Snowflake and AWS services

Job Summary

  • Architect the evolution of our data ecosystem, helping to design and implement a medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold layers) to support scalable, traceable data movement and quality monitoring.
  • Lead the transition toward a hybrid data architecture based on AWS S3, Apache Iceberg, Polaris, and Trino (or similar query engine) — while maintaining and optimizing our existing Snowflake environment during the transition.
  • Develop and maintain data infrastructure as code using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment, configuration and management of data resources.

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Exiger is seeking a Cloud Data Architect to design and maintain data platforms that support their analytics and risk intelligence products. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in data architecture, particularly with Snowflake and AWS services.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Design medallion architecture
  • Hybrid data architecture on AWS S3
  • Apache Iceberg and Trino
  • Snowflake environment administration
  • Data modeling and schema design
  • ETL/ELT frameworks
  • Infrastructure as code with Terraform
  • Data cataloging and governance tools
  • Streaming data ingestion

Nice-to-have

  • AWS or Snowflake certifications
  • Data governance and lineage implementation
  • Data mesh principles
  • Federal or regulated environments

Key Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in data architecture, warehousing, or administration
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with Snowflake
  • Strong experience with query engines (Trino, Athena, Presto)
  • Experience designing data lakes and open table formats (Iceberg, Delta, Hudi)
  • Expertise in AWS data services (S3, Glue, IAM, Lambda)
  • Hands-on experience with Python or Java
  • Experience with streaming data ingestion
  • Experience with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines

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