Forward Deployed Technical Consultant-Snowflake

1200 Accenture Inc Company; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 91,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture's Advanced Technology Centers in Canada seek a Forward Deployed Technical Consultant to design and scale AI-enabled data workloads on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. This role requires in-office presence three days a week and collaboration with multinational teams, delivering end-to-end data pipelines, Cortex AI capabilities, MLOps, and production-grade AI solutions.

You will work with Python/Java, CI/CD, Terraform, and Snowsight to optimize performance and costs while shaping innovative

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline.
• 3 years of experience on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud and large-scale data projects (Snowpark, Dynamic Tables, Streams & Tasks, Snowsight). You’ve also built API layers that expose data and AI/ML capabilities to enterprise systems.
• 1 year experience in designing and shipping agentic AI solutions in production.
• 1 year experience in shipping agentic solutions in production using AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, open source) and Snowflake Cortex AI (Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, Cortex LLM functions).
• 5 years of experience in Python, Java, or equivalent.
• Comfortable with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and observability.
• 2 years' experience in shipping to production: CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging.
• Practical MLOps and LLMOps experience across the ML and LLM lifecycle (model training, serving, monitoring, prompt management).
• English is required for this position for multinational teams.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise-ready AI agents: retrieval, orchestration, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses.
• Build Snowflake data pipelines with Dynamic Tables, Streams, and Tasks; use Snowsight UI for query authoring, dashboards, and operational visibility.
• Build GenAI capabilities into Snowflake workloads with Cortex AI (Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, Cortex LLM functions). Optimize data models, queries, and processing workflows on Snowflake for performance and cost.
• Process large-scale data on Snowflake with SQL, Python, and the Spark ecosystem.
• Tailor and deploy agentic applications across finance, healthcare, and retail; conduct workshops, PoCs, and code-with sessions with clients.
• Define and use metrics for agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost.
• Build Snowflake-native pipelines using Cortex AI, Dynamic Tables, and the Snowflake data ecosystem.
• Operate MLOps / LLMOps pipelines with CI/CD across the ML and LLM lifecycle.

Skills

Snowflake AI Data Cloud

Python

Java

CI/CD

Terraform

Helm

MLOps

LLMOps

OpenAI

Cortex AI

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Snowsight

Job description

We are:

The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) are the engine for reinvention in our clients' transformation journey. Powered by more than 255,000 people across 24 countries, ATCs provide our clients with seamless access to industry insights and innovative technology solutions. Stronger together! The Advanced Technology Centers (ATCs) make a tremendous impact in solving our clients' business problems by leveraging innovation, intelligence, industry insights, new IT, and new technology skills. With the global environment changing at a faster pace, our clients are facing unprecedented challenges, and they need us more than ever before. As a Network, ATCs are positioned to unlock greater opportunities and exponential value for our clients. The value for our clients and our people: For our clients, the Network provides the strength of our geographic diversity, greater resilience, and seamless access to the deepest industry knowledge, the latest in Gen AI solutions, and tech expertise from around the world. For our people, it brings an opportunity to shape truly boundaryless career paths in a highly collaborative team of experts where they can learn from each other and solve the world's most complex client challenges.

You are a Forward Deployed Technical Consultant with strong experience building data solution workloads on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.

This role requires in-office presence in the local ATC office 3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Design enterprise-ready AI agents: retrieval, orchestration, tool invocation, evaluation harnesses.
• Build Snowflake data pipelines with Dynamic Tables, Streams, and Tasks; use Snowsight UI for query authoring, dashboards, and operational visibility.
• Build GenAI capabilities into Snowflake workloads with Cortex AI (Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, Cortex LLM functions). Optimize data models, queries, and processing workflows on Snowflake for performance and cost.
• Process large-scale data on Snowflake with SQL, Python, and the Spark ecosystem.
• Tailor and deploy agentic applications across finance, healthcare, and retail; conduct workshops, PoCs, and code-with sessions with clients.
• Define and use metrics for agent accuracy, latency, safety, and cost.
• Build Snowflake-native pipelines using Cortex AI, Dynamic Tables, and the Snowflake data ecosystem.
• Operate MLOps / LLMOps pipelines with CI/CD across the ML and LLM lifecycle.

Here’s What You Need

• Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline
• 3 years of experience on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud and large-scale data projects (Snowpark, Dynamic Tables, Streams & Tasks, Snowsight). You’ve also built API layers that expose data and AI/ML capabilities to enterprise systems.
• 1 year experience in designing and shipping agentic AI solutions in production.
• 1 year experience in shipping agentic solutions in production (agents, orchestration, context based solutions, RAG, workflows) using AI platforms (OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, open source) and Snowflake Cortex AI (Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, Cortex LLM functions).
• 5 years of experience in Python, Java, or equivalent.
• Comfortable with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and observability.
• 2 years' experience in shipping to production: CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm), monitoring, and debugging.
• Practical MLOps and LLMOps experience across the ML and LLM lifecycle (model training, serving, monitoring, prompt management).
• English is required for this position as this role will be aligned to multi-national teams where English is the common language across our Global Enterprise. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking multi-national teams, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.

Compensation

As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below. The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand-new position. The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

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Role Location Annual Salary Range British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $90,850 to $140,850

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