Snowflake Centre of Excellence Lead

Kubrick Group; England; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & bonus

Friendly and collaborative working environment

25 days of annual leave

Access to upskilling opportunities

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

An innovative technology consultancy in London seeks a Snowflake Centre of Excellence Lead to drive the establishment of their Snowflake expertise. The role involves leading delivery projects, engaging with clients, and developing intellectual property, requiring extensive experience in Snowflake solutions and software engineering practices. Candidates should possess strong technical assurance and the ability to foster trusted relationships across technical teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Snowpipe, Streams & Tasks, and Data Clean Rooms.
• SnowPro Core and Advanced certifications are a plus.
• Experience with platform observability and CI/CD for data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the establishment of the Snowflake Centre of Excellence.
• Develop Snowflake-focused intellectual property and best practices.
• Act as a technical advisor to clients, helping to define data strategies.

Skills

Extensive experience designing and delivering Snowflake solutions

Proven expertise in optimizing Snowflake performance

Skilled in software engineering practices with Python

Strong track record in training and enabling colleagues

Experience with modern data engineering tools such as dbt

History of supporting pre-sales activities

Job description

Snowflake Centre of Excellence Lead - London

Who we are: We deliver powerful data and AI solutions that minimise operational cost, strengthen resilience against risk, and uncover revenue opportunity. Our clients can retain our people to drive lasting adoption while futureproofing their workforce with exceptional talent. We’re the preferred partner of today’s leading technology providers, including Databricks, Snowflake, and Collibra, to accelerate delivery and co-create revolutionary solutions. We transform the lives of our consultants, clients, and their customers through data and AI.

Role Purpose

As part of our Core Practice, you will be joining a tight knit team of motivated technology professionals where ongoing learning and development are central to our ethos and internal culture. You will work closely with our wider technical delivery function, our sales team, and our partner management team with a particular focus on growing our relationship with Snowflake.

Responsibilities

• Lead the establishment of Kubrick’s Snowflake Centre of Excellence, collaborating with Capability Leads to ensure the organisation maintains the expertise and experience needed across all core disciplines to deliver high-quality Snowflake solutions efficiently
• Take ownership of developing Snowflake-focused intellectual property, including best practices, accelerators, reusable frameworks, and reference architectures
• Strengthen our Snowflake partnership by leveraging technical credibility to build trusted relationships with architecture and engineering stakeholders at Snowflake
• Provide technical assurance on delivery projects, ensuring that all solutions adhere to established Snowflake implementation best practices
• Contribute to pre-sales activities by shaping proposals, supporting client workshops and meetings, publishing thought leadership content, and participating in industry events
• Act as a technical advisor to clients, helping to define data strategies and solution blueprints that fully utilise Snowflake’s capabilities
• Investigate opportunities to leverage Snowflake’s app development features (e.g., Snowpark, Native Apps) and integrations (e.g., Streamlit) to create new business offerings and co-developed IP
• Partner with colleagues across our Core and Applied Practices to design and bring to market repeatable Snowflake-based solutions

Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience designing and delivering Snowflake solutions, including Snowpipe, Streams & Tasks, Data Sharing, Native Apps, Snowpark, Data Clean Rooms, and Cortex
• Proven expertise in optimising Snowflake performance and cost efficiency, with SnowPro Core and Advanced certifications
• Skilled in software engineering practices with experience in Python, alongside leading data teams in consulting and enterprise environments
• Strong track record in training and enabling colleagues and clients across the Snowflake ecosystem
• Experience in design and delivering business solutions on other modern data platforms (e.g. Databricks, Azure, AWS or GCP native stacks)
• Experience with platform observability and CI/CD for data platforms
• Hands-on experience with modern data engineering tools such as dbt, Fivetran, Matillion or Airflow
• History of supporting pre-sales activities in a product or consultancy-based business

What Kubrick offers

• A fast moving and fast growth business which is doing something seriously innovative and valuable. We already have a very supportive, diverse and appreciative client base, giving us stable foundations enabling us to keep working to high standards as we continue to grow. We also offer:
• A competitive salary & bonus
• Friendly and collaborative working environment
• Access to upskilling opportunities and clear progression path
• 25 days of annual leave
• Perkbox discounts and Wellness Hub with confidential well-being and mental health support
• Cycle to work scheme

Location

Central London office space by Mansion House (EC4V) with a hybrid working environment (usually 2 days a week in the office) or client engagements predominantly London & Southeast. May require client site regular site visits.

DEI commitment

At Kubrick, we not only strive to bridge the skills-gap in data and technology, but we are also committed to playing a key role in improving diversity in the industry. To that effect, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds, and particularly encourage applications from groups currently underrepresented in the industry, including women, people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds, LGBTQ+ people, people with disability and those who are neurodivergent.

We know that potential applicants are sometimes put off if they don’t meet 100% of the requirements. We think individual experience, skills and passion make all the difference, so if you meet a good proportion of the criteria, we’d love to hear from you.

We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equally positive experience, and equal chances for success regardless of any personal characteristics. Please speak to us if we can support you with any adjustments to our recruitment process.

Seniority level

• Director

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Consulting, Information Technology, and General Business

Industries

• Business Consulting and Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Data Infrastructure and Analytics