Senior Data Architect, Customer & Data (Snowflake)

Location: Remote in EMEA; Budapest, Hungary. Applicants must have the right to work in the EMEA country where they are based. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Company

hirify.global is a private equity-backed, AI-powered consultancy that designs and delivers intelligent front-office solutions connecting marketing, CRM, content, AI, and data for enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Lead discovery and assessment workshops with client data, IT, and marketing stakeholders, translating business and marketing use cases into data requirements.
• Design target-state cloud data architectures covering ingestion, storage, data models, transformation, serving, capacity, performance, and cost.
• Define customer data models and identity strategies across warehouses, CDPs, engagement platforms, and analytics tools.
• Architect warehouse-to-marketing integrations, including warehouse-native and zero-copy audiences, reverse ETL, and event streaming.
• Set standards for data quality, lineage, security, access control, and governance; assess platform changes and downstream impacts, including GDPR requirements.
• Review models and pipeline code, build proofs of concept, unblock data engineers, mentor the team, develop reusable delivery assets, and support pre-sales solution shaping.

Requirements

• At least eight years of experience in data engineering or data architecture, including at least three years designing enterprise data platforms end to end.
• Deep hands-on Snowflake experience; working knowledge of at least one additional major platform such as Databricks, BigQuery, Azure Synapse or Fabric, or AWS Redshift.
• Strong data modelling skills across dimensional, Data Vault, or similar approaches, with expert SQL.
• Experience with modern ingestion, transformation, and orchestration tools such as dbt, Fivetran, Airflow, or equivalent, plus working Python skills.
• Experience connecting data platforms to customer and marketing systems, ideally CDPs such as Twilio Segment, Adobe Real-Time CDP, or Salesforce Data Cloud, and engagement platforms such as Braze.
• Practical knowledge of data governance, security, privacy, GDPR, consent data, and role-based access.
• Consulting or agency experience, with the ability to explain architecture decisions to marketers and engineers and work credibly with clients.
• Evidence of leading or mentoring data engineers on enterprise delivery.
• Fluent English and the right to work in an EMEA country where hirify.global operates.

Nice to have

• SnowPro Advanced: Architect certification or equivalent.
• Experience in financial services or another regulated industry.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote full-time role within EMEA.
• Opportunity to help establish a dedicated Data capability as one of its first senior hires.
• Work on enterprise programmes for customers across multiple industries and countries.
• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process.