Data Platform Architect: Snowflake & Databricks | Hybrid

CACI Ltd; England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CACI Information Intelligence Group seeks a Data Architect to lead Snowflake/Databricks-based data platforms across public sector customers in the UK. You will design target architectures, data models and governance, enabling AI/ML workloads and data sharing across multi-cloud environments.

You will work with customers to assess, migrate and optimise data ecosystems, ensuring security, cost-effectiveness and alignment with industry best practices. Hybrid working model with client-site visits.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale cloud data platforms.
• Hands-on design/implementation with Snowflake and/or Databricks.
• Experience architecting lakehouse, data warehouse and hybrid platforms.
• Migration strategies from legacy platforms to Snowflake/Databricks.
• Expertise in data modelling, standards, and enterprise integration patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture for Snowflake/Databricks platforms with roadmaps.
• Design/optimise Snowflake environments for data sharing and security.
• Design/implement Databricks lakehouse architectures for analytics/ML workloads.
• Evaluate existing estates and develop migration strategies.
• Develop enterprise data models and platform standards.
• Define scalable data ingestion, transformation and orchestration patterns.
• Collaborate with data engineers, security teams and stakeholders.
• Establish governance covering data quality, lineage, metadata, access controls.
• Produce architecture artefacts and technical documentation.
• Advise on AI, GenAI and advanced analytics using Snowflake/Databricks.

Skills

Snowflake Data Cloud

Databricks Lakehouse

Cloud-native architectures

Data governance & security

AI/ML data requirements

Data modelling

ETL/ELT patterns

SnowPro/Databricks certifications

Python

SQL

Spark

dbt

Azure Data Factory

Airflow

Kafka

Education

Snowflake SnowPro certification

Databricks Certified Data Engineer

Cloud platform certifications

Tools

Spark

Python

SQL

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

dbt

Azure Data Factory

Airflow

Kafka

Job description

CACI Information Intelligence Group seeks a Data Architect to lead Snowflake/Databricks-based data platforms across public sector customers in the UK. You will design target architectures, data models and governance, enabling AI/ML workloads and data sharing across multi-cloud environments.

You will work with customers to assess, migrate and optimise data ecosystems, ensuring security, cost-effectiveness and alignment with industry best practices. Hybrid working model with client-site visits.