Snowflake Architect

Snowflake Data Architect - Global Consultancy
Location: London (Hybrid - 2/3 days onsite)
Salary: Up to £90,000 + bonus & benefits

Are you a Data Architect with deep Snowflake expertise? Our global consulting client is expanding its Data Architecture practice and is looking for a Snowflake-focused specialist to help shape large-scale data strategies and guide enterprise clients through modern cloud-native data transformation.

The Role

You'll act as a trusted advisor to major organisations, defining data architecture roadmaps, shaping end-to-end Snowflake solutions, and ensuring data strategies align with business goals. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with high-level consulting, solution design and stakeholder engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and architecture of Snowflake-centric data platforms, ensuring scalable, secure and high-performance solutions.

• Define data strategies, target architectures and cloud data visions for enterprise clients.

• Consult with stakeholders to translate business needs into cloud-native data solutions and delivery plans.

• Develop data models, ingestion patterns and transformation frameworks optimised for Snowflake.

• Provide thought leadership across data architecture and contribute to broader enterprise architecture strategy.

• Guide clients on best practices for Snowflake adoption, optimisation, cost management and long-term sustainability.

• Support proposal creation, pre-sales activities and solution shaping as part of wider consulting engagements.

• Oversee architecture governance across the delivery life cycle, ensuring alignment to roadmap and standards.

Required Experience

• 5+ years in Data Architecture roles, ideally within consulting or large enterprise environments.

• Deep, hands-on experience with Snowflake, including architecture patterns, security, performance tuning, RBAC, data sharing and cost optimisation.

• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures (preferably AWS) and modern data engineering approaches.

• Experience designing ingestion, transformation and orchestration workflows using tools such as dbt, Matillion, Airflow or similar.

• Expertise in data modelling, data governance and enterprise data strategy.

• Excellent client-facing and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Why Join?

• Work on high-impact Snowflake transformation programmes for global clients.

• Be part of a specialist consultancy known for their expertise in business architecture and integration.

• Opportunities for career progression, certifications and continuous professional development.

• Hybrid working with flexibility and strong culture of autonomy.