Azure Data Architect - Snowflake at Appex Innovation
Boston, MA
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Aug 4, 2026
Boston, MA
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level Snowflake Architect role at a client site in Boston, focused on shaping and executing an Azure-Snowflake data platform roadmap. Day-to-day work spans designing scalable data architectures, building and optimizing ETL pipelines with SnowSQL and Spark, performance tuning Snowflake environments, and guiding data engineering SDLC including agentic AI patterns. Suits a seasoned data architect with deep Snowflake expertise and Azure cloud experience.
Senior level · 15+ years · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH · Bachelor's required
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10 people in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 5–15
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $165,205 (middle half $137,427–$177,039).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 6, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (4)
The job note explicitly calls out Azure Cloud and Agentic AI as priorities, but the Mandatory Skills section lists 'AWS or Azure' as a cloud requirement — Azure is captured as the primary with AWS as an alternative to reflect both signals.
Agentic AI is mentioned in the introductory note as a focus area but does not appear in the Mandatory or Preferred Skills sections and names no specific tool or framework, so it is omitted from the skills list per the no-generic-concepts rule.
Data modeling appears in the Mandatory Skills section but names no specific tool or framework, so it is omitted as a generic methodology.
The 15-year experience requirement is unusually high; it is taken directly from the Qualifications section as stated.
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