Snowflake Architect

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Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value in all ways. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid‑market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value.

At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.

• Lead a small to medium‑size agile program pod to deliver cutting‑edge solutions using the Snowflake ecosystem and adjacent technologies.
• Comfortably lead development on at least one of the main cloud providers (AWS, Azure, 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 clients’ data platform solutions.
• Lead a delivery pod in Agile ceremonies and design sessions, break down complex development tasks, and ensure timely completion of your pod’s development items in the backlog.
• Contribute to the Snowflake CoE, 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 clients’ competitive edge.
• Embody Slalom’s core values and culture, bringing authenticity, curiosity, and care into every interaction.

As an Architect in the Snowflake CoE capability, you will bring a curious mindset to client engagement, a thirst for knowledge, and a hunger for fearless experimentation in new and interesting ways to meet clients’ most pressing data challenges. You will have an insatiable need to become the best at what you do and will have opportunities to gain hands‑on experience with new tools, features, and platforms as you explore the range of technologies we help clients with.

• 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 Sage Maker, 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,…