Data Architect

Data Architect at BrainRocket

BrainRocket is a global company creating end-to-end tech products for clients across Fintech, iGaming, and Marketing. We’re looking for a highly skilled Data Architect with experience in data warehousing to design and optimize our data platform. You’ll play a critical role in shaping our data ecosystem—defining architecture, ensuring scalability, and enabling advanced analytics and reporting across the organization. This position is office based for our office in Birkirkara, Malta. Relocation assistance can be provided if you are outside of the city or country.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance data architectures on AWS using Snowflake as the central data warehouse;
• Design and optimize ELT/ETL pipelines using tools such as Airflow and Snowflake Streams and Procedures;
• Lead the design of data models (Star/Snowflake schema) and data marts for analytics and operational reporting;
• Work with data engineers, BI, and other technical teams and business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical data solutions;
• Establish data governance, cataloging, and lineage practices;
• Ensure compliance with data security, privacy, and regulatory standards;
• Drive performance tuning, cost optimization, and best practices in Snowflake and across the data stack;
• Document architectural decisions and technical designs for team collaboration and future scalability.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in data engineering or architecture roles;
• Strong experience with AWS cloud services such as S3, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, IAM, and CloudFormation/Terraform;
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and modern data pipeline frameworks (e.g., dbt, Airflow);
• Solid understanding of data modeling, data warehousing principles, and dimensional design;
• Experience with CI/CD practices and infrastructure as code in a data environment;
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Nice to Have

• Hands-on experience with Snowflake (warehousing, performance tuning, data sharing);
• Experience integrating with BI tools like Power BI or Tableau;
• Knowledge of data lake architecture and streaming technologies (Kafka, Kinesis);
• Certifications in Snowflake or AWS (e.g., SnowPro Core, AWS Data Analytics Specialty).

Why you should join us?

• 24 days of vacation per year;
• Private Health Insurance;
• Daily Breakfasts and Friday lunches in the office;
• Snacks in the Office;
• Transport Allowance of up to 150 euro paid quarterly (public transport or taxi);
• Gym Subsidies for office building gym;
• Tennis or Paddle Training sessions reimbursement, up to 100 EUR monthly;
• Discount for Premium subscription for Cloudigo;
• Discounts at partners of the company;
• Annual salary reviews;
• Birthday gifts;
• Option for parking;
• Regular office & team building events.

Key skills/competency

• Data Architecture
• AWS Cloud Services
• Snowflake
• Data Warehousing
• ELT/ETL Pipelines
• Data Modeling
• SQL Proficiency
• Python Development
• Data Governance
• CloudFormation/Terraform