Senior Data Architecture Lead — Snowflake & AI Platform

International Business Machines Corporation; Kansas City (MO); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Consulting is seeking a Principal Consultant, Data Architect to own end-to-end architecture for enterprise data and AI platforms across multiple client engagements. Snowflake is the primary platform, with Databricks and open table formats as secondary options.

The role leads through technical authority and mentorship, guiding engagement architects, data engineers, and analytics engineers while collaborating with client executives on platform

Qualifications

• Senior technical authority on enterprise data and AI platforms.
• Own end-to-end target-state architecture across concurrent engagements.
• Define standards and reference patterns for engagements.
• Mentor engagement architects and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end target-state architecture for enterprise data and AI platforms (Snowflake primary).
• Define environment strategy, security, governance, and cost/performance architecture at Architect depth.
• Design layered data models and semantic layers for BI, AI, and applications.
• Set adoption direction for Cortex AI, Iceberg, and open table formats; define fit of Databricks with Snowflake.

Skills

Snowflake

Databricks

AI readiness

Solution architecture

Tools

dbt

CI/CD

infrastructure as code

Snowpark

Job description

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Consulting is seeking a Principal Consultant, Data Architect to own end-to-end architecture for enterprise data and AI platforms across multiple client engagements. Snowflake is the primary platform, with Databricks and open table formats as secondary options.

The role leads through technical authority and mentorship, guiding engagement architects, data engineers, and analytics engineers while collaborating with client executives on platform