Sr Principal Data Architect

About the role

The Lead Data Architect – Cloud Platforms (Snowflake) is responsible for designing and governing Lamb Weston’s enterprise data ecosystem within the Snowflake platform. This role establishes integration patterns, modeling standards, and optimization techniques for a global data environment supporting manufacturing, supply chain, and finance analytics.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise data architecture standards leveraging Snowflake.
• Collaborate with SAP data teams to ensure seamless data ingestion from SAP and non-SAP sources.
• Develop scalable data modeling frameworks, including medallion architectures for enterprise data products.
• Establish data performance, cost optimization, and security standards across the Snowflake environment.
• Guide integration with Power BI and other analytics platforms for efficient data delivery.
• Mentor engineering teams on Snowflake data patterns, performance tuning, and governance best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in data architecture with 5+ years focused on Snowflake and AWS ecosystems.
• Proficiency in SQL, data modeling (3NF, dimensional), and data integration tools such as Informatica or Matillion.
• Experience designing and optimizing Snowflake virtual warehouses, data shares, and secure views.
• Strong knowledge of medallion architecture, data governance, and cost management best practices.

Benefits

Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
• Paid Time Off
• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts
• Life and Accident insurance
• Family-Friendly Employee events
• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

Pay

A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role is $146,840.00 - $220,250.00.

Schedule

Full time