Senior Data Architect - Snowflake or Databricks (Client-Facing)

8 West Consulting; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

8 West Consulting is seeking a senior, client-facing Data Architect/Consultant with production experience in Snowflake or Databricks. You will help enterprise clients modernise data estates, define target architectures and deliver migrations and data engineering solutions that create measurable value.

This long-term role spans multiple client engagements; you will blend hands-on technical judgement with strategic guidance, support leadership decisions, and identify opportunities in data sharing,

Qualifications

• Hands-on production experience with Snowflake or Databricks on enterprise workloads.
• Strong architectural design, loading, ELT, and security capabilities.
• Experience with data migration, integration, ETL/ELT, orchestration.
• Advanced SQL and dimensional data modelling.
• Governance, data products, secure sharing.
• Senior client advisory and workshops with executives.
• Delivery ownership with roadmaps and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Advise business and technology leaders; lead discovery workshops.
• Shape enterprise data architecture and migration plans.
• Lead data migration, ETL/ELT, orchestration and testing.
• Review SQL, pipelines, data models, ensure reliability and cost-efficiency.
• Design medallion data layers with quality, lineage and security.
• Enable secure data sharing and data products.
• Own roadmaps and stakeholder updates.
• Mentor teams and identify consulting opportunities.

Skills

Snowflake

Databricks

SQL

Data architecture

ETL/ELT

Data governance

Stakeholder engagement

Cloud data migration

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

8 West Consulting is seeking a senior, client-facing Data Architect/Consultant with production experience in Snowflake or Databricks. You will help enterprise clients modernise data estates, define target architectures and deliver migrations and data engineering solutions that create measurable value.

This long-term role spans multiple client engagements; you will blend hands-on technical judgement with strategic guidance, support leadership decisions, and identify opportunities in data sharing,