Snowflake architect with AI data platform expertise

We are looking for a Senior Snowflake Specialist who can assess a broader data ecosystem, define strategic initiatives, and provide hands on guidance for platform architecture and optimization. You will work in a stakeholder facing role with the opportunity to lead discovery activities, challenge assumptions, influence technical direction, and present recommendations to leadership.

• Assess the overall data ecosystem and data platform strategy
• Run discovery activities with stakeholders
• Challenge existing approaches and present initiatives to leadership
• Propose concrete initiatives for platform improvement
• Support Snowflake architecture decisions
• Improve platform scaling, governance, and cost and performance optimization
• Contribute to data lake or lakehouse design
• Contribute to data modelling and data quality practices
• Apply AI and GenAI capabilities on top of the data platform

• Deep hands on Snowflake platform expertise
• Experience with Snowflake architecture, scaling, cost and performance optimization, best practices, and governance
• Experience with data platform architecture
• Experience with data lake or lakehouse design
• Experience with data modelling and data quality
• Practical experience applying AI or GenAI on top of a data platform
• Strong communication and stakeholder facing skills
• Ability to run discovery workshops or sessions
• Ability to challenge stakeholders constructively and present initiatives to leadership
• Strategic mindset to assess a data ecosystem and propose concrete initiatives

• The engagement starts with a full time onsite period of 4 to 8 weeks in California, followed by a part time commitment of approximately 20 hours per week.
• Candidates should have a valid B1/B2 or Tourist visa, as a work visa is not required for this engagement.
• Travel includes the initial onsite period in California, with additional travel to client locations, including Europe, potentially required based on project needs.
• 3 month checkpoint on delivered impact