Snowflake Architect

What You’ll Do 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 SnowPro 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. Who You’ll Work With 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. What You’ll Do 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 SnowPro 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. What You’ll Bring 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. Key Responsibilities 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. Requirements 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 BigQuery) Advanced Object-Oriented Programming skills (Java, Python) Experience with NoSQL Databases (DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, MongoDB) 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 Sagemaker, Azure ML Studio) Experience with Streaming Data Ingestion (Amazon Kinesis, Apache Kafka) Experience with Semantic Modeling or Visual Analytics (Tableau, PowerBI) Experience with Modern Data Workflows & Orchestration (Apache Airflow, dbt, Dagster). About Us 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. Compensation And Benefits Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance. Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges. For Boston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, New Jersey, New York, Washington DC, White Plains, Orange County etc. The Base Salary Pay Ranges Are As Follows Consultant - $99,000 - $130,000 Sr. Consultant - $130,000 - $170,000 For all other locations the base salary pay ranges are as follows: Consultant - $90,000 - $120,000 Sr. Consultant - $120,000 - $150,000 In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time. We will accept applications on an ongoing basis until a candidate is selected for the position. We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: View email address on click.appcast.io. 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 veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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 click.appcast.io if you require accommodations during the interview process. #J-18808-Ljbffr