Snowflake Architect

Snowflake Architect – Slalom

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. The Snowflake Center of Excellence (CoE) is focused on building, developing, and delivering holistic data solutions leveraging Snowflake and its evolving data platform.

• Lead a small to medium size agile program pod to deliver cutting‑edge solutions utilizing the Snowflake ecosystem and adjacent technologies.
• Comfortable leading development on at least one of the main cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP).
• Maintain “active” status of a Snowflake Snow Pro Core certification and one advanced Snowflake certification of your choice.
• Work as the Solution Architect of a delivery pod with a Delivery Owner to design complex delivery patterns, implement solutions, and build components of our clients’ data platform solutions.
• Lead a delivery pod in Agile ceremonies and design sessions, break down complex development tasks, take responsibility for the timely completion of your pods assigned development items in the backlog.
• Contribute to the Snowflake CoE, the internal capability growth, and partnership initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with other Slalom data leaders to drive sales, recruiting, account management, consulting, and operational excellence across the capability.
• Act as a Snowflake SME, supporting business development efforts and guiding clients through best practices in architecture, core data engineering, and scalable analytics.
• Be a mentor and thought leader, regularly recommending emerging technologies and tools that align with client goals and future‑state data strategies.
• Bring a business‑first lens to every conversation, driving impactful, tech‑enabled outcomes that elevate our clients’ competitive edge.
• Embody Slalom’s core values and culture, bringing authenticity, curiosity, and care into every interaction.

• Develop and implement data solutions using Snowflake, while collaborating with team members to leverage its capabilities.
• Lead and mentor engineering teams, fostering a culture of learning and innovation, while driving best practices in data management and performance optimization.
• Engage with clients to understand their business challenges and deliver solutions that align with their goals, utilizing Snowflake’s capabilities to enhance outcomes.

• 8+ years of data engineering experience with at least 4+ years of hands‑on Snowflake delivery and or development experience.
• Expertise in hands‑on development with Cloud Data Warehouses (Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Google Big Query).
• Advanced Object‑Oriented Programming skills (Java, Python).
• Experience with No
  
  SQL Databases (Dynamo
  
  DB, Cosmos DB, Mongo
  
  DB).
• Experience with Container Management Systems (Kubernetes, Amazon ECS).
• Experience with Big Data Tools/Frameworks:
  Spark, Hadoop, Presto, Amazon EMR.
• Advanced SQL experience.
• Hands‑on experience developing data pipelines: batch and or streaming.
• Experience with data modeling.
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (Amazon Sagemaker, Azure ML Studio).
• Experience with Streaming Data Ingestion (Amazon Kinesis, Apache Kafka).
• Experience with Semantic Modeling or Visual Analytics (Tableau, Power
  
  BI).
• Experience with Modern Data Workflows & Orchestration (Apache Airflow, dbt, Dagster).

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. Benefits include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, short/long‑term disability, yearly $350 reimbursement account for well‑being‑related expenses, and discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is an equal‑opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team or contact a if you require accommodations during the interview process.