- Company Name
- AxiaMetrics
- Job Title
- Solutions Architect
- Job Description
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**Job title**
Solutions Architect – Snowflake
**Role Summary**
Lead technical delivery and advisory for Snowflake implementations, translating business needs into scalable, secure data architectures. Act as primary technical liaison with customers, oversee design, coding, migration, and governance initiatives to enable modern data platforms and drive enterprise transformation.
**Expectations**
- Partner with customers and internal GTM/product teams to deliver high‑quality solutions.
- Transition from 20 hrs/week to full‑time as projects grow, maintaining consistent quality and customer satisfaction.
- Deliver measurable business outcomes, such as improved analytics capability, risk reduction, and data monetization.
**Key Responsibilities**
1. Engage customers individually and in delivery teams, extracting business requirements and mapping them to Snowflake solutions.
2. Design, architect, and code scalable data platforms, including ingestion, transformation, storage, and analytics layers.
3. Lead migrations from legacy systems (Teradata, SAS, Hadoop, etc.) to Snowflake, ensuring minimal disruption.
4. Develop data roadmaps, lakehouse governance frameworks (Iceberg, etc.), and reusable data product architectures.
5. Advise on Snowflake Marketplace utilization for data sharing and monetization.
6. Provide executive‑level technical thought leadership, including presentations, workshops, and strategy sessions.
7. Implement data security, governance, and compliance controls within Snowflake.
8. Collaborate with product and GTM teams to align solutions with Snowflake’s roadmap and capabilities.
**Required Skills**
- 8–11 yrs of experience as Solutions Consultant, Data Architect, DBA, or Data Engineer in enterprise settings.
- 8+ yrs of technical consulting in large‑scale analytics or platform modernization projects.
- Hands‑on Snowflake architecture, coding (SQL), and operational experience.
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, Java, or Spark for analytics solution development.
- Deep understanding of end‑to‑end data lifecycle: ingestion/ETL, platform design, processing, governance, BI, analytics.
- Experience with BI, ETL/ELT, and orchestration tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Azure Data Factory, etc.).
- Knowledge of large‑scale database technologies (Snowflake, Netezza, Exadata, Teradata, Greenplum).
- Implementation of data security controls and governance in Snowflake.
- Familiarity with Iceberg/open table formats and lakehouse governance.
- Experience defining data product contracts, discoverability, and domain‑aligned architectures.
- Proven migration experience from Teradata, SAS, Hadoop to cloud data platforms.
- Strong communication, technical leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
- Industry certifications: Snowflake SnowPro Advanced, and AWS/GCP/Azure cloud certification preferred.
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Edinburgh, United kingdom
Hybrid
Senior
19-11-2025