Snowflake AI Architect (Chicago)

Role: AI Architect with Snowflake

Location: Phoenix, AZ/Chicago, IL -Hybrid Onsite

Type: Contract

We are seeking an experienced AI Architect with strong hands-on Snowflake expertise to design and implement scalable AI, data, and analytics solutions. The role requires a combination of AI/ML architecture, Generative AI, LLMs, data engineering, cloud architecture, and Snowflake development .

The ideal candidate should be capable of moving beyond architecture and personally developing prototypes, data pipelines, Snowflake solutions, RAG applications, and AI integrations .

Key Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end AI/ML and Generative AI architectures using enterprise data platforms.
• Architect scalable AI solutions using LLMs, RAG, vector search, embeddings, AI agents, and predictive ML .
• Develop hands-on solutions using Snowflake as the enterprise data and AI platform.
• Design Snowflake data models, databases, schemas, views, secure views, stages, streams, tasks, and pipelines.
• Develop complex Snowflake SQL and optimize queries for large-scale datasets.
• Implement Snowpark solutions using Python and/or other supported languages.
• Build data pipelines integrating Snowflake with cloud storage, APIs, databases, streaming platforms, and enterprise applications.
• Design and implement RAG pipelines using enterprise documents and structured data.
• Work with embeddings, vector search, chunking, metadata, retrieval, reranking, and prompt engineering.
• Leverage Snowflake Cortex and related AI capabilities where appropriate.
• Integrate Snowflake with cloud AI/ML services such as AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, or Google Vertex AI .