Senior Technology Architect Snowflake

Summary

Architects and leads large cloud data platform programs using Snowflake, Confluent Kafka, event-driven architecture, and CI/CD with GitHub Actions.

Salary: £24,000 - 59,000 per year

Requirements:
  • We require multiple years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud, Integration, or Data Platforms.
  • We require experience leading at least one large program that implemented a multi-technology cloud data platform.
  • We require strong expertise in Snowflake and/or Confluent Kafka.
  • We require experience with Confluent Cloud, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and event-driven architecture.
  • We require hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, CI/CD, DevOps automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
  • We require experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP cloud platforms.
  • We require strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud-native platforms.
  • We require deep understanding of Data Mesh, Data Governance, Security, and Compliance.
  • We require experience with observability, monitoring, and platform operations.
  • We require strong stakeholder management and customer-facing experience.
  • We require experience working in Agile delivery environments.
  • We value high analytical skills, initiative, flexibility, customer orientation, quality awareness, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Responsibilities:
  • We define enterprise platform architecture, reference architecture, standards, and engineering guardrails.
  • We build modernization roadmaps for Data, Streaming, Integration, and Platform Engineering ecosystems.
  • We drive architecture reviews, technology evaluations, and platform transformation initiatives.
  • We establish governance, security, resilience, scalability, and cost-optimization frameworks.
  • We lead Snowflake architecture covering security, governance, RBAC, data sharing, performance optimization, and multi-environment strategy.
  • We define enterprise data platform standards and operational best practices.
  • We guide warehouse sizing, workload management, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
  • We design event-driven architecture using Confluent Cloud.
  • We define topic governance, schema management, security controls, HA/DR, and cluster strategy.
  • We establish enterprise integration patterns using Kafka, Kafka Connect, APIs, and streaming architectures.
  • We define and implement CI/CD standards using GitHub Actions.
  • We drive Infrastructure-as-Code, automation, release governance, and quality gates.
  • We establish platform engineering practices supporting continuous delivery and automation.
  • We define Data Mesh principles, domain ownership models, governance, metadata management, and interoperability standards.
  • We establish integration architecture across Snowflake, Kafka, cloud platforms, APIs, ETL/ELT, and downstream systems.
  • We collaborate with business and engineering teams to enable scalable data products.
Technologies:
  • AI
  • AWS
  • Architect
  • Azure
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • DevOps
  • ETL
  • GCP
  • GitHub
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • RBAC
  • Security
  • Snowflake
  • Fivetran

More:

We are Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, helping clients in 59 countries navigate digital transformation. With over four decades of experience supporting global enterprises, we enable an AI-first core, agile digital scale, and continuous improvement through always-on learning and our innovation ecosystem. This is a Technology Architect role based in London, United Kingdom, with competitive compensation including bonus. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, merit, competence, and performance, and we foster a well-governed, environmentally sustainable workplace where talent thrives.

last updated 35 week of 2026

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