Forward Deployed Technical Consultant-Snowflake: AI&Data Advanced Technology Centers

Accenture PLC; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 75,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Forward Deployed Technical Consultant to design, build, and operationalize AI/ML solutions across Snowflake Data Cloud. You will work with cloud, data science, and analytics teams to deliver production-grade, agentic AI systems in a hybrid role across Mississauga and Montreal.

Responsibilities include building scalable data pipelines, managing ELT/ETL workflows, and ensuring data quality with robust MLOps and Cortex tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 3+ years Snowflake-native features experience (Snowpark, Dynamic Tables, Streams, Tasks, Snowpipe).
• 3+ years Python and SQL experience with data modeling and dbt.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms.
• Minimum 3 years CS fundamentals and 1 year distributed computing experience.
• 1 year building AI/ML software in cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Formulate real-world problems into scalable AI/ML solutions.
• Architect and maintain Snowflake AI Data Cloud environments.
• Design ELT/ETL pipelines using Snowflake SQL, Snowpark Python, and Snowpipe.
• Build AI-ready data products with clear ownership and data quality SLAs.
• Develop multi-step agentic AI workflows with Cortex components.
• Create RAG pipelines with vector and semantic retrieval.
• Integrate AI agents with enterprise systems via REST APIs and MCP connectors.
• Implement MLOps for reliable model deployment and monitoring.
• Apply agentic automation to data quality, diagnostics, and documentation tasks.

Skills

Python programming

SQL advanced

Cloud platforms

Distributed computing

Data modeling

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Snowflake

Snowpark (Python)

Snowpipe

Cortex AI

dbt

Vector databases (Snowflake Vector Search)

REST APIs

Apache Kafka

Kinesis

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:

As a Forward Deployed Technical Consultant, you will design, build, and operationalize artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions for enterprise clients, combining custom models with cloud and third-party AI services to deliver production-ready outcomes. You will design, build, and operationalize enterprise-grade data and agentic AI solutions on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Your role spans the full solution lifecycle of Snowflake-native data products and agentic AI systems — assessing client needs and data, selecting and customizing models (including Deep Learning, Generative AI, and Large Language Models), designing scalable data and DevOps & MLOps pipelines for training and production, and ensuring quality, value, and reliability of deployed systems.

You’ll work closely with analytics, data science, and cloud teams to ensure reliable, high-performance data delivery for the clients we serve.

THE WORK

• Formulate real-world problems into practical, efficient, and scalable AI and Machine Learning solutions

• Architect and maintain a scalable, governed Snowflake AI Data Cloud environment including compute optimization, warehouse sizing, and cost management.

• Design and implement ELT/ETL frameworks using Snowflake SQL, Snowpark Python, Dynamic Tables, Streams, Tasks, and Snowpipe for batch, streaming, CDC, and event-driven ingestion patterns

• Build reusable, AI-ready data products with clear ownership, semantic context, data quality SLAs, and lineage tracking

• Design and build multi-step agentic AI workflows using Snowflake Cortex Agents, Cortex AI Functions, Cortex Search, and Cortex Analyst.

• Develop production-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines with vector search, semantic retrieval, and hybrid search capabilities over governed Snowflake datasets.

• Integrate AI agents with enterprise systems via MCP (Model Context Protocol) connectors, REST APIs, and event-driven messaging architectures.

• Implement tool-use orchestration, prompt engineering, and evaluation frameworks (LLMOps) for reliable, auditable AI agent behaviour.

• Apply agentic automation to operational use cases including anomaly detection, data quality remediation, query diagnosis, documentation generation, and incident summarisation.

• Integrate AI agents with enterprise systems via MCP (Model Context Protocol) connectors, REST APIs, and event-driven messaging architectures.

• Build and maintain semantic data models that expose governed, business-ready datasets to Cortex Analyst and BI tools

• Engage in research and development of new AI and high-performance compute algorithms, models, and simulations along with their applications to solve complex business problems at client sites

• Work with large-scale datasets and utilize data preprocessing techniques to ensure high-quality input for training and production

• Implement and maintain efficient data storage and retrieval mechanisms for models and knowledge using appropriate tools

• Justify the value of model approaches in business problems

• Collaborate with teams from both business and technical sides, including users, use case representatives, business owners, engineers, architects, and UI designers, to achieve end-to-end project goals and integrate into production.

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This is a hybrid role in Mississauga/Montreal and requires 3 days per week in the office/client location

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BASIC (REQUIRED) QUALIFICATION

• Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in Computer Science, or related field

• 3+ years experience in Snowflake-native features: Snowpark (Python), Dynamic Tables, Streams & Tasks, Snowpipe, Cortex AI suite, and performance tuning.

• 3+ years experience in Python (data pipelining and ML workloads) and advanced SQL. Experience with data modelling methodologies and dbt for transformation layer management.

• Familiarity with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and associated services (object storage, IAM, networking, managed compute).

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in applying theoretical foundations of computer science, including computer system architecture, and programming

• Minimum of 1 years of experience in distributed computing systems and architecture that may include big data, high-performance compute, scientific compute, grid and cloud computing, distributed networks

• Minimum of 1 years of experience in building and deploying AI/ML based software to a cloud environment.

English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company’s activities to avoid this requirement.

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PREFERRED QUALIFICATION

• Proficiency in Python and python-based AI/ML framework and familiarity with relevant libraries and frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Experience with vector databases (e.g., Snowflake Vector Search, Pinecone, Weaviate) and embedding models (e.g., Snowflake Arctic Embed)
• Snowflake SnowPro Advanced certification (Data Engineer or Architect) or Cortex AI practitioner credentials.
• Hands-on experience with MLOps tooling: model registries, evaluation pipelines, experiment tracking, and monitoring in production.
• Familiarity with MCP (Model Context Protocol) and enterprise agentic control plane architectures.
• Exposure to streaming technologies (Apache Kafka, Kinesis) integrated with Snowflake ingestion pipelines.
• Strong written & verbal communication skills and ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong client-facing skillsets in a consulting environment

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but is not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. 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.

Information on benefits is here.

https://www.accenture.com/ca-en/careers/local/benefits

Role LocationAnnual Salary Range British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $75,400 to $125,400

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but is not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. 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.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Hourly Salary Range British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $36.25 to $60.29

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360 value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360 value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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