Data Platform Architect - Snowflake - Remote - 600-650 P/D
£600-650 p/d outside IR35 GBP
Remote WORKING
Type: Contract
Data Platform Architect - Snowflake
Location: UK Wide | Remote
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Clearance: Active SC Clearance Required
Sector: Data | Cloud | Technology Consulting
We are supporting a leading technology consultancy in recruiting an experienced Data Platform Architect / Snowflake Architect to lead the architecture and development of enterprise-scale Snowflake platforms across complex client environments.
This is not simply a Snowflake migration or administration role. We're specifically looking for someone who has designed and built a company's Snowflake data platform from the ground up within a client-facing product or programme environment.
Key Responsibilities
Remote WORKING
Type: Contract
Data Platform Architect - Snowflake
Location: UK Wide | Remote
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Clearance: Active SC Clearance Required
Sector: Data | Cloud | Technology Consulting
We are supporting a leading technology consultancy in recruiting an experienced Data Platform Architect / Snowflake Architect to lead the architecture and development of enterprise-scale Snowflake platforms across complex client environments.
This is not simply a Snowflake migration or administration role. We're specifically looking for someone who has designed and built a company's Snowflake data platform from the ground up within a client-facing product or programme environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and deliver enterprise-scale Snowflake data platforms
- Take ownership of Snowflake architecture from initial design through to production
- Design scalable, secure and resilient cloud data architectures
- Define platform architecture, standards, patterns and technical roadmaps
- Build data ingestion, transformation and integration architectures
- Design data models, pipelines and data products within Snowflake
- Integrate Snowflake with wider cloud, application and analytics ecosystems
- Lead technical decision-making across complex client programmes
- Work closely with Data Engineers, Cloud Engineers, Security Architects and senior stakeholders
- Ensure platforms meet requirements around security, governance, performance and scalability
- Provide architectural leadership throughout delivery
- Extensive experience within Data / Platform Architecture
- Deep hands-on expertise with Snowflake
- Demonstrable experience architecting and building a Snowflake platform from the ground up
- Must have delivered a Snowflake platform within a client product / client-facing programme, rather than solely supporting an existing environment
- Strong understanding of modern cloud data platform architecture
- Data modelling, data warehousing and data integration expertise
- Experience designing scalable ETL/ELT and data pipeline architectures
- Strong understanding of data security, governance and access controls
- Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP
- Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership skills
- Previous consultancy / client-facing delivery experience highly desirable