Senior AI Architect, Snowflake Data Cloud

Accenture; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 132,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Technology Lead to drive modernization of customer data and application ecosystems on Snowflake AI Data Cloud. You will architect scalable Snowflake solutions and mentor client teams across AI/ML, BI, and data integration in enterprise environments.

This hybrid role requires deep experience with AI platforms, MLOps, and multi-cloud toolchains, and you will embed with clients as a trusted technologist and advisor to deliver measurable business value.

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in Python, Java, or equivalent with evaluation tooling, logging, monitoring, and observability.
• 5 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.
• 4 years of experience deploying and operating production systems with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling. Practical MLOps and LLMOps experience across the ML/LLM lifecycle.
• 1 year experience in designing and shipping agentic AI solutions in production, hands-on with agentic orchestration tools (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar).
• Experience working with AI platforms across OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI, and open-source models.
• English is required for this position as this role will be aligned to multi-national teams where English is the common language.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise AI agent systems on Snowflake: retrieval, orchestration, governance, evaluation, lifecycle observability.
• Architect scalable Snowflake solutions for enterprise data workloads; champion best practices across customer engagements.
• Establish modern Snowflake architecture with Dynamic Tables, Streams, and Tasks; navigate Snowsight UI for query, dashboards, and operational visibility.
• Architect GenAI patterns on Snowflake Cortex AI (Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, Cortex LLM functions) so AI lives next to the data.
• Develop abstraction layers across AI providers (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI) for clean integration.
• Leverage containerization, microservices, serverless, and event-driven architectures for scalable AI native systems.
• Mentor client teams on Snowflake: data management, analytics, AI/ML, and BI integration.
• Process large-scale data on Snowflake with SQL, Python, and modern data integration tooling.
• Tailor agentic applications across industries; lead workshops, PoCs, and metric definition.
• 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

Python

Java

Observability

CI/CD

MLOps

LLMOps

Agentic AI

Snowflake AI Data Cloud

APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Snowflake Cortex AI

LangGraph

CrewAI

AutoGen

OpenAI

Claude

Vertex AI

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Technology Lead to drive modernization of customer data and application ecosystems on Snowflake AI Data Cloud. You will architect scalable Snowflake solutions and mentor client teams across AI/ML, BI, and data integration in enterprise environments.

This hybrid role requires deep experience with AI platforms, MLOps, and multi-cloud toolchains, and you will embed with clients as a trusted technologist and advisor to deliver measurable business value.