Senior Snowflake Data Architect - On-Site Wembley

Data Science Jobs UK; Wembley; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Permanent benefits

Job summary

Data Science Jobs UK is seeking an experienced Snowflake Data Architect to shape a modern, enterprise data platform in Wembley. This on-site role offers a £90,000–£110,000 package and permanent benefits.

You will define architecture standards, drive governance and best-practice across data engineering teams, design scalable Snowflake pipelines, and deliver trusted data products that empower analytics, automation, and AI capabilities across the business.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience within Data Engineering, Data Architecture, or a related field.
• At least 4 years of hands-on Snowflake architecture and design experience.
• Proven expertise in Data Vault 2.0 and dimensional modelling, including Star Schema design.
• Strong knowledge of dbt and source control practices using GitHub.
• Experience integrating enterprise data platforms with AWS services and broader cloud ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of data governance, security, CI/CD, and engineering best practices.
• Experience transforming legacy data environments into modern, automated cloud-based architectures.

Responsibilities

• Define and own enterprise-wide data architecture standards, including Data Vault, semantic layer frameworks, star schema modelling patterns, and Snowflake design conventions.
• Design scalable integration patterns for legacy and modern data sources, ensuring strong governance, reconciliation, auditability, and data quality.
• Architect cloud-based data pipelines leveraging Snowflake and modern orchestration technologies, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Establish security and access frameworks, including role-based access control, data masking, row-level security, and environment separation best practices.
• Lead initiatives to optimise platform performance and cost management, identifying efficiencies in data processing, storage, and query execution.
• Design data structures and architectures that enable AI, GenAI, and advanced analytics use cases, including semantic and metadata-driven solutions.
• Partner closely with data engineering teams, business stakeholders, and analysts to define data contracts and maintain a consistent, trusted data ecosystem.
• Promote a Data-as-Code culture, driving engineering standards, automation, governance, and CI/CD best practices.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

Data governance

CI/CD

Cloud & analytics

Snowflake design

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

GitHub

AWS

Kestra

Job description

Data Science Jobs UK is seeking an experienced Snowflake Data Architect to shape a modern, enterprise data platform in Wembley. This on-site role offers a £90,000–£110,000 package and permanent benefits.

You will define architecture standards, drive governance and best-practice across data engineering teams, design scalable Snowflake pipelines, and deliver trusted data products that empower analytics, automation, and AI capabilities across the business.