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About the Role

The Staff Data Architect plays a critical, hands-on role in evolving and strengthening CNN’s modern data ecosystem. This is a platform-focused role for a senior technologist who thrives at scale—designing and implementing robust, performant, and governed data architecture that powers analytics, reporting, and decision-making across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data architecture patterns on Snowflake to support high-volume event and analytics workloads, with a strong focus on performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Lead the technical design and implementation of complex data systems and platform enhancements, establishing and maintaining architecture and data modeling standards.
• Define and implement secure, scalable data access patterns, leveraging role-based access control and managed access schemas.
• Design and operate data quality and observability frameworks, using dbt tests and monitoring tools.
• Partner closely with platform engineering and analytics teams to improve system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Translate complex analytics and business requirements into clean, well-governed semantic data models.
• Define and implement data lifecycle and retention strategies.
• Act as a technical mentor and thought leader, helping grow the skills of engineers and analysts.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience in data engineering, data architecture, or a related field, with demonstrated ownership of production data systems or platform components.
• Deep expertise in cloud data warehousing, with hands-on experience in Snowflake, including performance tuning, security design, cost optimization, and large-scale data modeling.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining dbt-based transformation workflows, including testing, performance optimization, and deployment best practices.
• Experience working with event or clickstream data, ideally using Snowplow or comparable technologies, and a strong understanding of instrumentation and processing challenges at scale.
• Proven ability to design and implement semantic layers and analytics-ready data models that serve as a trusted source of truth for BI tools such as Looker, Tableau, or Domo.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences, influence architectural decisions, and build alignment across teams.

Skills

• Snowflake
• dbt
• Snowplow
• Looker
• Tableau
• Domo
• Customer Data Platforms (CDPs)
• Airflow
• Dagster

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• $136,500.00 - $253,500.00 per year

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Employee wellness program
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid holidays and sick time
• Vacation

About the Company

• Warner Bros. Discovery is the stuff dreams are made of, encompassing iconic content and beloved brands.
• CNN is the world’s most essential and engaging source of digital news, undergoing rapid transformation.
• WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow.

Equal Opportunity

• Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences.
• Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
• If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.