Migrations Solutions Architect

Contract Length:
Jan '26 - May '26. This will increase based on performance.

Contract

Hours:

Originally 20 hours, this will increase with the addition of new projects. The aim will be to get you onto 40 hours asap.

• Design comprehensive migration plans and solutions tailored to the customer's needs and architecture, ensuring a seamless transition to Snowflake
• Partner with our customers, acting as the technical expert for all aspects of Snowflake during implementation
• Deploy Snowflake following best practices, including ensuring knowledge transfer so that customers are properly enabled and are able to extend the capabilities of Snowflake on their own
• Maintain deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them
• Work with System Integrator consultants at a deep technical level to successfully position and deploy Snowflake in customer environments
• Create presentations and document learnings from the project. Develop utilities and accelerators to streamline migration and related activities
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing

• 8-11 years of experience as a solutions architect, data architect, database administrator, or data engineer
• Experience migrating from one data platform to another and holistically addressing the unique challenges of migrating to a new platform
• Hands‑on experience working with data warehouse systems including or similar to Snowflake, Big Query, Teradata, Redshift, Netezza, SAP HANA, Greenplum, Exadata, etc.
• End‑to‑end experience migrating on prem data warehouse solutions to the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Outstanding skills presenting to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
• Understanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design to BI and analytics tools
• Extensive hands‑on expertise with SQL and SQL analytics and scripting languages like Python, Bash, Shell etc.
• University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience

• 5 years of technical consulting experience
• Experience with non‑relational platforms and tools for large‑scale data processing (e.g. Hadoop, HBase)
• Familiarity and experience with common BI and data exploration tools (e.g. Power BI, Microstrategy, Business Objects, Tableau)
• Experience and understanding of large‑scale infrastructure‑as‑a‑service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, Open Stack, etc.)
• Experience implementing ETL pipelines using custom, packaged tools and software development experience using C / C++, Java etc.
• Snow Pro Core Certification