Migrations Solutions Architect

AxiaMetrics; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading data solutions company in the UK seeks a Migrations Solution Architect to design and deploy migration strategies, ensuring seamless transitions to Snowflake. The ideal candidate will have 8-11 years of relevant experience, strong presentation skills, and detailed knowledge of data warehouse systems. This role offers a contract starting at 20 hours per week, with potential for growth to full-time. Immediate start preferred, with the chance to work on cutting-edge data projects.

Qualifications

• 8-11 years as a solutions architect or equivalent.
• Experience migrating data platforms.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Design migration plans for customer solution.
• Act as technical expert during implementation.
• Deploy Snowflake and ensure customer enablement.

Skills

Migration planning

Data platform transition

SQL analytics

Data warehouse systems

Technical presentations

ETL processes

Education

University degree in computer science or related fields

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Azure

GCP

Python

Power BI

Job description

Contract Length: Jan '26 - May '26. This will increase based on performance.

Contract Hours: Originally 20 hours, this will increase with the addition of new projects. The aim will be to get you onto 40 hours asap.

AS A Migrations Solution Architect YOU WILL:

• Design comprehensive migration plans and solutions tailored to the customer's needs and architecture, ensuring a seamless transition to Snowflake
• Partner with our customers, acting as the technical expert for all aspects of Snowflake during implementation
• Deploy Snowflake following best practices, including ensuring knowledge transfer so that customers are properly enabled and are able to extend the capabilities of Snowflake on their own
• Maintain deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them
• Work with System Integrator consultants at a deep technical level to successfully position and deploy Snowflake in customer environments
• Create presentations and document learnings from the project. Develop utilities and accelerators to streamline migration and related activities
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing

OUR IDEAL SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, MIGRATIONS, WILL HAVE:

• 8-11 years of experience as a solutions architect, data architect, database administrator, or data engineer
• Experience migrating from one data platform to another and holistically addressing the unique challenges of migrating to a new platform
• Hands‑on experience working with data warehouse systems including or similar to Snowflake, BigQuery, Teradata, Redshift, Netezza, SAP HANA, Greenplum, Exadata, etc.
• End‑to‑end experience migrating on prem data warehouse solutions to the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Outstanding skills presenting to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
• Understanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design to BI and analytics tools
• Extensive hands‑on expertise with SQL and SQL analytics and scripting languages like Python, Bash, Shell etc.
• University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience

ADDITIONAL PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 years of technical consulting experience
• Experience with non‑relational platforms and tools for large‑scale data processing (e.g. Hadoop, HBase)
• Familiarity and experience with common BI and data exploration tools (e.g. Power BI, Microstrategy, Business Objects, Tableau)
• Experience and understanding of large‑scale infrastructure‑as‑a‑service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, OpenStack, etc.)
• Experience implementing ETL pipelines using custom, packaged tools and software development experience using C / C++, Java etc.
• SnowPro Core Certification