Senior AI Lead -Snowflake

1200 Accenture Inc Company; Montreal; On-site; CAD 132,000 - 278,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Technology lead to modernize customer data ecosystems on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, partnering with business leaders to architect scalable Snowflake solutions and act as a trusted technical advisor. This role embeds with clients as a technologist and advisor, defining use cases and deploying robust, secure agentic workflows.

You will work with AI platforms and multiple providers, mentor client teams, and drive data management, analytics, and BI

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or college program in a related discipline.
• 10 years of experience in Python, Java, or equivalent.
• Comfortable 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).
• Experience building API layers exposing data and AI/ML to enterprise systems.
• 4 years deploying and operating production systems with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability tooling.
• MLOps and LLMOps experience across the ML/LLM lifecycle.
• 1 year designing and shipping agentic AI solutions with agentic orchestration tools.
• Hands on with Snowflake Cortex AI: Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, Cortex LLM functions.
• Experience with AI platforms across OpenAI, Claude, Vertex AI.
• English required for multinational teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise-ready AI agent systems on Snowflake: retrieval, orchestration, governance, evaluation, lifecycle observability.
• Architect scalable Snowflake solutions for enterprise data workloads and best practices.
• Establish modern Snowflake architecture with Dynamic Tables, Streams, and Tasks; Snowsight for dashboards.
• Develop Cortex AI patterns so AI lives beside the data.
• Integrate AI providers (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI) through abstraction layers.
• Leverage containerization, microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures for scalable AI systems.
• Mentor client teams on Snowflake data management, analytics, AI/ML, and BI integration.
• Process large-scale data on Snowflake with SQL, Python, and data integration tooling.
• Lead workshops, PoCs, and metric definition for agentic applications.
• Build Snowflake-native pipelines using Cortex AI and Snowflake data ecosystem.
• Operate MLOps/LLMOps pipelines with CI/CD across ML lifecycle.

Skills

Python

Java

MLOps

LLMOps

CI/CD

Observability

Snowflake

Snowsight

Dynamic Tables

Cortex AI

OpenAI

Education

Bachelor’s degree or college program in a related discipline

Tools

Snowflake

Snowsight

Cortex AI

LangGraph

Job description

About Us

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.

Role Summary

You Are A Senior Forward Deployed Technology lead, leading the modernization of customer data and application ecosystems on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, with deep focus on enterprise data workloads. You partner with technology and business leaders to architect scalable Snowflake solutions, champion best practices across customer engagements, and serve as a trusted technical advisor ensuring customers achieve significant business value with Snowflake.

The Work

You will embed directly with clients as both technologist and trusted advisor. You will partner with stakeholders to define use cases, rapidly prototype, and deploy agentic workflows that are robust, secure, and operational in complex enterprise domains.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise-ready 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.

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

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline
• 10 years of experience in Python, Java, or equivalent
• Comfortable 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: CI/CD across the ML and LLM lifecycle covering model training, evaluation harnesses, model serving, monitoring, and prompt management
• 1 year experience in designing and shipping agentic AI solutions in production, experience with agentic orchestration tools (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar)
• Hands on with Snowflake Cortex AI: Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, Cortex LLM functions
• You’ve built RAG and multi-agent systems on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud
• 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 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

The hiring will be determined on full-time. Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are 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 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 Annual Salary Range British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $131,700 to $278,100

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. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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