Snowflake Data Architect (hands-on, contract)

Opus Recruitment Solutions; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 61 000 - 101 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Opus Recruitment Solutions Limited is seeking a Senior Data Architect contractor to lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale Snowflake solutions on cloud platforms. The role focuses on building data platforms that support analytics, AI, and real-time decision-making.

You will own complex data architecture programs, define standards, and collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to drive strategic outcomes.

Qualifications

• Senior Data Architect with enterprise Snowflake delivery experience.
• Experience designing data vault 2.0 architectures.
• Proven ability to deliver real-time data pipelines on AWS/Azure.

Responsabilités

• Architect Snowflake-based data platforms on AWS/Azure.
• Design scalable data lakehouse, medallion, and Data Vault architectures.
• Build real-time and near real-time data pipelines.
• Define data modelling standards and governance frameworks.
• Leverage Snowflake Cortex AI to accelerate analytics.
• Collaborate with data, technology and business stakeholders.
• Demonstrate Snowflake Architecture expertise and large-scale migrations.
• Utilise DBT, SQLMesh, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg.

Connaissances

Leadership

Strong SQL

Data governance

Stakeholder collaboration

Outils

Snowflake

AWS

Azure

DBT

SQLMesh

Delta Lake

Apache Iceberg

Python

Description du poste

Contract | London - Up to £550/day Outside IR35

We're working with a client that's investing heavily in its cloud data platform and is looking for an experienced Senior Data Architect contractor to replace their technical lead in the business. The successful candidate will have demonstrated they can lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale Snowflake solutions.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of complex data architecture projects, shaping modern data platforms that support analytics, AI, and real-time decision-making.

What you'll be doing

• Architecting and delivering Snowflake-based data platforms on AWS and Azure.
• Designing scalable data lakehouse, medallion, and Data Vault architectures.
• Building real-time and near real-time data pipelines using modern cloud technologies.
• Defining data modelling standards, governance frameworks and best practices.
• Leveraging Snowflake Cortex AI to accelerate data engineering and analytics capabilities.
• Working with stakeholders across data, technology and business teams to deliver strategic outcomes.
• Strong commercial experience with Snowflake Architecture.
• Expertise in Data Modelling, including Data Vault 2.0.
• Experience designing cloud-native data platforms on AWS and/or Azure.
• Proven background delivering large-scale data migrations and modernisation programmes.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with data warehousing concepts.
• Experience with DBT, SQLMesh, Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg or similar modern tooling.
• Snowflake Cortex AI.
• Python and data engineering automation.
• Financial Services, Insurance or highly regulated environments.

They'll be looking to get someone started next month.