Snowflake Platform Lead / Senior Consultant

Contract: 6 Months (Likely Extension)

Location: Fully Remote

Candidate Location: United Kingdom or Netherlands

Rate: Market Rate (DOE)

E Cloud Services is seeking an experienced Snowflake Platform Lead / Senior Consultant to join a major enterprise data transformation programme.

This is an excellent opportunity to work on a large-scale cloud data platform, leveraging technologies such as Snowflake, Confluent Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes, Fivetran, and CI/CD. The successful consultant will combine strong hands-on technical expertise with leadership, stakeholder management, and delivery experience to support a modern, secure, and scalable data platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the delivery, administration, and optimisation of enterprise Snowflake platforms

• Provide hands-on expertise across Snowflake, Azure Cloud, Confluent Kafka, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and modern data platform technologies

• Drive platform governance, automation, monitoring, security, resilience, and operational excellence

• Support solution architecture, technical design, and implementation activities

• Lead Agile delivery across multiple workstreams and collaborate with business and technical stakeholders

• Mentor platform engineers and promote engineering best practices

• Manage production support, platform performance, incident resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives

• Ensure compliance with security, governance, and operational standards

Required Skills & Experience:

• 7+ years' experience delivering enterprise Data Platform or Cloud Platform solutions

• Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake Administration and platform engineering

• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP cloud platforms

• Knowledge of Confluent Cloud / Kafka is highly desirable

• Experience with Kubernetes (AKS), GitHub, CI/CD, DevOps, and automation

• Strong understanding of Data Governance, Data Mesh, Security, and enterprise platform operations

• Experience working in Agile delivery environments

• Excellent stakeholder management and client-facing communication skills

Apply Now:

If you have proven Snowflake platform experience and are looking for your next contract opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.

Please apply with your latest CV or contact E Cloud Services for a confidential discussion.

No agencies or third-party suppliers, please. Direct applications only.