Snowflake Architect

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, always. 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.

The Snowflake Center of Excellence (CoE) is focused on building, developing, and delivering holistic data solutions leveraging Snowflake and its evolving data platform. Snowflake’s product roadmap has expanded to meet a wider range of customer needs and is a major player in the data ecosystem that is well‑positioned for continued growth and strategic alignment with our work.

The Snowflake CoE is comprised of passionate technologists committed to refining and mastering their craft. As an Architect for the Snowflake CoE you will be expected to:

• Lead a small to medium size agile program pod to deliver cutting‑edge solutions utilizing the Snowflake ecosystem and adjacent technologies to deliver holistic solutions.
• 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.

As an Architect in the Snowflake CoE capability, you will bring a curious mindset to your client’s engagement, a thirst for knowledge, and a hunger for fearless experimentation in new and interesting ways to meet our 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 that we help our 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…