Senior Snowflake Architect & Data Platform Lead

Cognizant; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Snowflake Architect to design, implement, and manage Snowflake-based data platforms in Stockholm. You will lead architectural decisions, administer environments, and optimize performance, security, and costs across BI, analytics, and data science initiatives.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, enforce governance, and mentor engineers on Snowflake best practices. This role requires hands-on expertise and strategic leadership.

Qualifications

• Extensive Snowflake architecture and admin experience.
• Strong SQL and performance tuning capabilities.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• ETL/ELT and data migrations expertise.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and administer Snowflake data solutions.
• Configure warehouses, databases, schemas, and monitors.
• Manage user access, roles, security, and cost optimization.
• Ensure scalability, high availability, backups, and DR.
• Collaborate with architects, security, and dev teams.
• Mentor teams on architecture principles and best practices.

Skills

Snowflake architecture

SQL

Data warehousing

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

DevOps/CI-CD

Data migrations

Snowflake administration

Scripting (Python/Shell)

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Python scripting

PowerShell scripting

Snowpipe / storage integration

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Snowflake Architect to design, implement, and manage Snowflake-based data platforms in Stockholm. You will lead architectural decisions, administer environments, and optimize performance, security, and costs across BI, analytics, and data science initiatives.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, enforce governance, and mentor engineers on Snowflake best practices. This role requires hands-on expertise and strategic leadership.