Principal - Snowflake Architect

About the role

The Snowflake Center of Excellence (CoE) is focused on building, developing, and delivering holistic data solutions leveraging Snowflake and its evolving data platform. This role involves leading a small to medium size agile program pod to deliver cutting-edge solutions utilizing the Snowflake ecosystem and adjacent technologies.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

  Requirements

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

    What You’ll Bring

    As an Principal 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.

    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.

    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 accomodationrequest@slalom.com if you require accommodations during the interview process.