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You will own the architecture, reliability, security, and cost efficiency of Snowflake account infrastructure while enabling domain teams to build and operate dbt Mesh projects safely at scale.\nAs a senior technical advisor, you will turn ambiguous, cross-organizational needs into clear standards and architectural decisions. You will partner with Data Engineering, Analytics, AI/ML, Security, GRC, and business teams to shape the platform roadmap and establish governed foundations for AI applications.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDefine the multi-year data platform architecture and roadmap, including technology evaluations and buy/build/adopt recommendations for executive leadership\nSet Snowflake standards for warehouses, account configuration, environments, RBAC, replication, performance, and cost management\nDesign dbt Mesh boundaries and shared guardrails that allow domain teams to develop and operate data products independently\nEstablish integration standards for Airflow, Fivetran, Atlan, data sharing, and other platform tools\nDesign governed data-access patterns for AI and agentic workflows, including context retrieval, MCP-based access, and analytical agent evaluation\nPartner with Security and GRC on FedRAMP boundaries, least-privilege access, masking, and reviews of new data integrations\nImprove platform efficiency through warehouse tuning, resource monitors, query tags, and cost attribution\nGuide cross-team architectural decisions, mentor senior engineers, and communicate platform strategy to VP and executive stakeholders\nWhat You’ll Need\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience\n10+ years of data or platform engineering experience, including 5+ years owning Snowflake account or platform operations at enterprise scale\nPreferred Qualifications\nDeep experience with Snowflake administration, RBAC, SQL tuning, resource monitors, query tags, and cost optimization\nExperience making architectural tradeoffs across security, reliability, performance, cost, and domain autonomy\nTrack record of setting technical direction and influencing multiple teams without direct authority\nExperience with dbt Core or Cloud, dbt Mesh, or multi-project data architectures\nFamiliarity with data governance, cataloging, lineage, Atlan, and compliance controls such as FedRAMP or SOX\nExperience with AWS data services, Python automation, and orchestration or ingestion tools such as Airflow and Fivetran\nExperience designing governed data access for AI applications, MCP servers, semantic layers, or analytical agent evaluation\nExperience supporting BI, reverse-ETL, and operational data consumers in a SaaS environment\nSnowPro certification and experience mentoring Staff-level engineers\nStrong communication skills, including presenting technical strategy and tradeoffs to executive audiences\nWorking Conditions & Travel Requirement\nLess than 10% travel\nReliable internet access for any period of time working remotely and not in a Workiva office\n\nWorkiva will not provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. on a permanent basis.\n\nHow You’ll Be Rewarded\nSalary range in the US: $174,000.00 - $280,000.00A discretionary bonus typically paid annually\nRestricted Stock Units granted at time of hire\n401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package\nThe salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.\nWhy Join Workiva\nWorkiva is the platform designed to bring confidence, control, and a competitive edge to the world’s most complex organizations. Our AI-powered platform unifies finance, risk, and sustainability on a single, secure foundation-ensuring data is trusted, traceable, and ready to act on. With an unbroken path from source to output, leaders gain confidence in their numbers, visibility into current and emerging risks, and the ability to move with speed and precision in a constantly changing world.\nAt Workiva, you’ll bring technology to market that executives, boards, and regulators depend on. The work you do here helps organizations navigate uncertainty, maintain trust, and make decisions that stand up to scrutiny. If you’re energized by meaningful challenges, inspired by collaborative teams, and motivated to help organizations turn uncertainty into advantage, we’d love to meet you.\nEmployment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic.\nWorkiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email .\nWorkiva employees are required to undergo comprehensive security and privacy training tailored to their roles, ensuring adherence to company policies and regulatory standards.\nWorkiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.\n#LI-MJ2","description_format":"text","description_chars":5574,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Restricted stock units"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Security Compliance","ESG & Carbon Accounting Software","Accounting & Tax Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T17:46:07Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-01T03:41:05Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 2","filings_12m":2,"filings_prev_12m":2,"green_card_filings_12m":0,"median_offered_wage_usd":162500,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-03T21:08:04+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)"],"filings_for_role_12m":2}],"liveness":null,"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/workiva-senior-staff-data-platform-ai-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/workiva-senior-staff-data-platform-ai-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-06T02:18:22Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3417,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1583,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3690},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3690"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fworkiva-senior-staff-data-platform-ai-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fworkiva-senior-staff-data-platform-ai-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fworkiva-senior-staff-data-platform-ai-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/workiva-senior-staff-data-platform-ai-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fworkiva-senior-staff-data-platform-ai-engineer"}]}