Principal Solution Architect - Data Platform Security

Join phData, a remote-first data and AI consultancy company with employees across the United States, Latin America, and India. We partner with industry leaders, including Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Azure, GCP, Fivetran, Pinecone, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises.

We’re growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results.

Why phData?

• Snowflake Implementation Partner of the Year — 7 consecutive years, and 2026 Snowflake AI Partner of the Year
• AWS Premier Tier Services Partner — the highest tier of recognition in the AWS Partner Network
• 2025 Fivetran Partner of the Year (4th consecutive year)
• 2025 dbt Labs Partner of the Year (3x winner) with Visionary partner status
• 2026 KNIME Customer Excellence Partner of the Year
• Preferred Partner in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network
• #1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications
• 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, and more)
• Recognized as an award-winning workplace in the US, India and LATAM

Role Overview

We are looking for a Principal Solution Architect to join our Managed Services team. In this role, you will lead the architecture, security posture, and continuous improvement of enterprise Snowflake platforms for complex, security-sensitive clients. You will own the loop from threat detection through remediation and serve as a senior technical leader across platform security, governance, and operational resilience.

You will collaborate closely with client stakeholders, internal engineers, security teams, and practice leadership to define enforceable standards, operate proactive monitoring and alerting pipelines, and guide key decisions across access, governance, network security, identity, and data protection. You will also help strengthen phData’s managed Snowflake offerings by improving processes, automation, and reusable patterns that increase the quality and scalability of secure managed services delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, hardening, and continuous security improvement of enterprise Snowflake platforms across complex, security-sensitive client environments, ensuring strong controls, resilience, and long-term maintainability.
• Translate business, security, and technical requirements into operating models, roadmaps, and engineering work that strengthen platform controls, access patterns, governance, and secure delivery practices.
• Design and lead proactive monitoring, alerting, and threat detection across Snowflake environments using native audit and telemetry data, integrating with SIEM or similar platforms to detect, investigate, and remediate anomalous or unauthorized activity.
• Use threat modeling and attack-path analysis to identify and remediate risk across access models, data sharing, network controls, identity posture, third-party integrations, service accounts, secrets management, and configuration drift.
• Guide architectural and operational decisions across governance, authentication, privileged access, network security, and data protection, balancing platform risk, business priorities, compliance requirements, and performance goals.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and senior technical leader across client stakeholders, internal engineers, and partner teams, clearly communicating trade-offs, platform risks, and remediation plans while guiding difficult decisions in complex environments.
• Contribute to and improve managed services standards by creating automation, runbooks, accelerators, and best practices that enhance the quality, consistency, and scalability of secure Snowflake operations.
• Lead cross-functional teams and mentor engineers while…