Allata · 3 weeks ago
Data Manager (Snowflake)
Dallas, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior LevelAllata is a global consulting and technology services firm that helps organizations accelerate growth and drive innovation. They are seeking a hands-on Data Manager to own and evolve their clients’ Snowflake data platform, leading a squad of data engineers and delivering high-quality data solutions.
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Responsibilities
Define and evolve Snowflake platform architecture, standards, and best practices
Translate business goals into a pragmatic technical roadmap and delivery plan
Lead and mentor data engineers; establish quality bars, review code, and guide execution
Manage delivery using Agile rituals; align priorities across data, analytics/BI, and application teams
Design, build, and optimize ELT pipelines on Snowflake with an ELT-first approach (dbt preferred)
Implement modern data ingestion using tools such as Fivetran, ADF, Glue, or Matillion
Set up orchestration and CI/CD for data using Airflow or Dagster and Git-based pipelines
Ensure data quality, observability, monitoring, alerting, documentation, and runbooks
Apply performance tuning and cost optimization in Snowflake, including query profiling and warehouse sizing
Implement security and governance in Snowflake (RBAC, masking, row access policies, auditing, data sharing)
Facilitate discovery with stakeholders, clarify requirements, and communicate trade-offs and recommendations
Qualification
Required
Deep hands-on Snowflake experience: warehouses, databases/schemas, stages, file formats, external tables, Snowpipe, Streams and Tasks, Time Travel/Fail-safe, query performance, micro-partitions, clustering, and cost management
Strong SQL and Python for data engineering use cases
ELT-first development with dbt or an equivalent modeling/testing/documentation framework
Experience with modern ingestion and orchestration (Fivetran, ADF, Glue, Matillion, Airflow, or Dagster)
Cloud experience (AWS preferred; Azure or GCP considered), including storage, IAM, networking basics, and secrets management
CI/CD for data with Git-based workflows and environment promotion
Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform Snowflake provider)
Solid understanding of dimensional modeling and data quality practices
Proven leadership with coaching, feedback, objective setting, and conflict resolution
Excellent stakeholder communication; able to facilitate discovery and manage expectations
Ownership mindset with proactive risk identification, prioritization, and mitigation
Structured problem-solving; comfortable with ambiguity and change
Preferred
Snowpark (Python), UDFs or stored procedures, and Dynamic Tables
Streaming or CDC with Kafka, Kinesis, or Debezium; event-driven patterns
BI or semantic layer exposure (Power BI, Tableau, Looker); metrics layer concepts
Experience with Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, or Databricks in lakehouse contexts
Security and compliance exposure (PII handling, encryption, auditing, regulated environments)
Company
Allata
Allata is an IT company focused on helping clients enhance or scale business opportunities, create efficiencies and more.
Founded in 2016
201-500 employees
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