Job Summary:
CNN is the worldโs most essential and engaging source of digital news, currently seeking a Staff Data Architect to evolve and strengthen its modern data ecosystem. This role involves designing and implementing robust data architecture to support analytics and decision-making across the organization, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with platform teams.
Responsibilities:
โข Design and implement scalable data architecture patterns on Snowflake to support highโvolume event and analytics workloads, with a strong focus on performance, security, and cost efficiency through query optimization, warehouse sizing, storage management, and governance best practices.
โข Lead the technical design and implementation of complex data systems and platform enhancements, establishing and maintaining architecture and data modeling standards that promote consistency, scalability, and reliability across Snowflake and dbt workflows.
โข Define and implement secure, scalable data access patterns, leveraging roleโbased access control and managed access schemas to ensure data is governed, auditable, and accessible to the right audiences.
โข Design and operate data quality and observability frameworks, using dbt tests and monitoring tools to track pipeline health, latency, and freshness, and to continuously improve platform reliability and operational visibility.
โข Partner closely with platform engineering and analytics teams to improve system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency, contributing to platform architecture planning and technical roadmaps.
โข Translate complex analytics and business requirements into clean, wellโgoverned semantic data models that enable trusted selfโservice analytics and consistent metrics across BI tools.
โข Define and implement data lifecycle and retention strategies that balance performance, cost efficiency, compliance, and data availability across the analytics platform.
โข Act as a technical mentor and thought leader, helping grow the skills of engineers and analysts and raising the overall bar for data architecture and engineering practices.
Qualifications:
Required:
โข 5โ8 years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or a related field, with demonstrated ownership of production data systems or platform components.
โข Deep expertise in cloud data warehousing, with handsโon experience in Snowflake, including performance tuning, security design, cost optimization, and largeโscale data modeling.
โข Strong experience designing and maintaining dbtโbased transformation workflows, including testing, performance optimization, and deployment best practices.
โข Experience working with event or clickstream data, ideally using Snowplow or comparable technologies, and a strong understanding of instrumentation and processing challenges at scale.
โข Proven ability to design and implement semantic layers and analyticsโready data models that serve as a trusted source of truth for BI tools such as Looker, Tableau, or Domo.
โข Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to nonโtechnical audiences, influence architectural decisions, and build alignment across teams.
Preferred:
โข Experience with Customer Data Platforms (CDPs).
โข Experience with data orchestration tools such as Airflow or Dagster.
โข Familiarity with data privacy and compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
โข Experience working in the media, publishing, or digital content industry.
Company:
CNN is an online broadcasting platform that offers the latest business, financial, and personal finance news. It is a sub-organization of WarnerMedia. Founded in 1980, the company is headquartered in Atlanta, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.