Principal - Snowflake Architect (Palo Alto)

About Slalom

Slalom is a business and technology consulting company that delivers outcomes-driven solutions across strategy, delivery, and technology.

What You’ll Do

As an Architect for the Snowflake Center of Excellence you will lead a small to medium agile program pod and deliver cutting‑edge solutions utilizing the Snowflake ecosystem and adjacent technologies.

• Lead a Pearson agile program pod to deliver holistic solutions in Snowflake and adjacent technologies.
• Drive development on at least one of the main cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Maintain active status of a Snowflake SnowPro Core certification and one advanced Snowflake certification.
• Work as the Solution Architect of a delivery pod, designing complex delivery patterns and building components of clients’ data platform solutions.
• Lead the delivery pod in Agile ceremonies, breaking down tasks and ensuring timely completion of backlog items.
• Contribute to the internal capability growth, partnership initiatives, and the Snowflake CoE.
• Collaborate closely with Slalom data leaders to drive sales, recruiting, account management, consulting, and operational excellence across the capability.
• Act as a Snowflake SME, supporting business development and guiding clients through best practices in architecture, core data engineering, and scalable analytics.
• Mentor and be a thought leader, recommending emerging technologies that align with client goals and future‑state data strategies.
• Apply a business‑first lens, driving impactful, tech‑enabled outcomes that elevate clients’ competitive edge.
• Embodies Slalom’s core values and culture, bringing authenticity, curiosity, and care into interactions.

What You’ll Bring

As a Principal in the Snowflake CoE, bring a curious mindset, a thirst for knowledge, and a hunger for fearless experimentation to address clients’ most pressing data challenges.

Key Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• Expert in capturing end‑user requirements and aligning technical solutions to business objectives.
• Experience in leading, designing, and implementing cloud data strategies with multi‑phased implementation roadmaps.
• Significant experience in Snowflake, acting as lead data architect on at least two implementations.
• Expertise in data architecture concepts such as dimensional modeling, data vault, and data mesh.
• Understanding of data management and governance concepts such as data quality and metadata management.
• Experience designing data engineering solutions using open source and proprietary cloud data pipeline tools.
• Experience leading data platform development teams.
• Knowledge of data science and visualization.
• Must have Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification and ideally SnowPro Advanced.
• Experience designing Snowflake‑native architectures to support AI and generative AI use cases, including Cortex AI within a secure, governed platform.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary ranges:
  • Boston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, New Jersey, New York, Washington DC, White Plains, Orange County: $162,000 - $235,000
  • All other locations: $136,000 - $198,000
• Annual discretionary bonus eligibility based on skills, experience, qualification, location, and other factors.
• Benefits include meaningful time off, paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) match, subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, short/long‑term disability, annual $350 well‑being reimbursement, and discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

EEO and Accommodations

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 veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. 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 View email address on apply.placed-app.com if you require accommodations during the interview process.