Principal Consulting Snowflake Architect

Overview

Lead the design and delivery of scalable Snowflake and cloud data architecture solutions for customer engagements. Serve as the senior technical authority, trusted advisor, and mentor across complex data platform and AI/ML initiatives.

What you'll do

• Design and implement end-to-end Snowflake solutions across ingestion, transformation, modeling, analytics, governance, AI, and operations.
• Lead implementations using Snowflake capabilities including Snowpipe, Streams and Tasks, Dynamic Tables, Snowpark, and Cortex AI.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, data scientists, analysts, and customers on enterprise data solutions.
• Partner with pre-sales teams on statements of work, estimates, timelines, and implementation approaches.
• Advise executives and technical stakeholders on Snowflake, AI/ML, and measurable business outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership for architecture, modernization, governance, data quality, and cloud engineering.
• Mentor peers and contribute to reusable delivery assets and Snowflake and AI/ML strategy.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 10+ years of consulting experience with hands-on Snowflake solutions, or 14+ years of related IT, data platform, or cloud architecture experience.
• SnowPro Core certification and one additional advanced certification.
• Deep expertise in Snowflake architecture and advanced SQL.
• Experience with Snowflake pipelines, data modeling, ELT, integrations, governance, security, and lineage.
• Strong cloud data architecture experience across Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Ability to lead architecture decisions, own technical accountability, and mentor resources.

Details

• Remote, United States.
• Travel to CDW locations or client sites may be required.
• Valid U.S. driver’s license required.
• Pay range: $156,000–$240,800 yearly, depending on experience and skill set.