Snowflake Architect - Contract, Part-time

Chosen Talentz; vadavalli; On-site; INR 446,000 - 893,000; Part time

Job summary

Chosen Talentz is seeking a Senior Snowflake Data Architect for a part-time contract in India. The role combines pre-sales, solution architecture, and hands-on delivery to design modern cloud data platforms using Snowflake.

You will lead end-to-end enterprise Snowflake implementations, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Sales, delivery teams, and executives to articulate architectures, roadmaps, and governance across data warehouses, data lakes, and data mesh concepts.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience leading at least 2 to 3 end-to-end enterprise Snowflake implementations.
• Experience migrating data platforms to Snowflake from traditional warehouses.
• Experience designing scalable Snowflake architectures for enterprise customers.
• Experience building production-grade ELT/ETL pipelines and data models on Snowflake.
• Experience with governance, security, RBAC and cost optimization in production Snowflake environments.
• Consulting or Systems Integrator experience and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Pre-Sales & Solution Architecture: partner with Sales, lead discovery workshops, design data platform architectures centered on Snowflake, create SOWs and roadmaps, present to executives.
• Solution Delivery & Technical Leadership: lead architecture and implementation of enterprise Snowflake solutions, define standards and best practices, mentor engineers.
• Drive governance, security, data models, ingestion frameworks, and performance optimization across Snowflake environments.

Skills

Snowflake

Data architecture

Pre-sales

Solution design

Data warehousing

Cloud platforms

Mentoring

Enterprise data

Job description

Job Title

Snowflake Architect Contract, Part-time

Job Summary

We are seeking highly experienced Senior Snowflake Data Architect with minimum 10 years experience in Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, and Cloud Data Platforms. The ideal candidate will have strong customer-facing and consulting skills.

This role will support both pre-sales engagements and project delivery, helping customers design modern cloud data platforms while working closely with account executives, delivery teams, and technology partners.

The ideal candidate enjoys solving business problems, presenting solutions to executives, conducting technical workshops, and mentoring engineering teams.

Position Details

• Contract Duration: 3 to 6 Months
• Commitment: 10 to 20 Hours per Week
• Location: Coimbatore / Trichy, India
• Communication Skills: Excellent

Roles and Responsibilities:

Pre-Sales & Solution Architecture (40%)

• Partner with Sales and Account Executives during customer pursuits.
• Lead discovery workshops to understand customer data strategy and business objectives.
• Design modern data platform architectures centered around Snowflake.
• Create solution architecture diagrams, estimates, Statements of Work (SOWs), and implementation of roadmaps.
• Present technical solutions to customer architects, IT leadership, and executives.
• Demonstrate Snowflake capabilities including:

• AI Data Cloud
• Cortex AI
• Native Apps
• Data Sharing
• Marketplace
• Governance

• Support RFPs, RFIs, and proposal responses.
• Work closely with Snowflake account teams on joint customer opportunities.

Solution Delivery & Technical Leadership (60%)

• Lead architecture and implementation of enterprise Snowflake solutions.
• Define enterprise data architecture, standards, and best practices.
• Design scalable data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse architectures.
• Build ingestion frameworks using modern ELT/ETL patterns.
• Design:

• Medallion Architecture
• Data Vault
• Dimensional Models
• Data Mesh concepts
• Domain-oriented architectures

• Implement data governance, security, masking, RBAC, and compliance.
• Guide engineering teams through implementation.
• Review architecture, code, and performance optimization.
• Mentor Data Engineers and technical leads.

Experience Requirements

• Hands-on experience leading at least 2 to 3 end-to-end enterprise Snowflake implementations from architecture through production deployment.
• Experience migrating data platforms from traditional data warehouses (Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata, Netezza, etc.) to Snowflake.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing scalable Snowflake architectures for enterprise customers.
• Experience building production-grade ELT/ETL pipelines, data models, and analytics platforms on Snowflake.
• Experience with performance tuning, workload optimization, security, governance, and cost optimization in production Snowflake environments.
• Experience participating in customer-facing architecture discussions, discovery workshops, and solution design.
• Consulting or Systems Integrator (SI) experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including Data Engineers, BI Developers, Data Scientists, and business stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring technical teams and providing architectural guidance.

Preferred Experience

Candidates should be able to demonstrate experience in at least two or more of the following:

• Enterprise Data Warehouse modernization.
• Cloud migration to Snowflake.
• Data Lake/Lakehouse implementations.
• Master Data Management (MDM).
• Data Governance and Catalog solutions.
• AI/ML or Generative AI solutions leveraging Snowflake Cortex.
• Data Sharing and Data Marketplace implementations.