Snowflake Solution Architect

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to join the Snowflake Transformation & Growth team, a centre of excellence within Deloitte’s Engineering, AI & Data service offering. You will work with clients, third parties and Deloitte teams to design and deliver enterprise data solutions using the Snowflake Data Cloud. You will lead architecture delivery across high-impact transformation programmes, including integrations and legacy data migrations, while working with multidisciplinary teams. The role requires strong technical knowledge and the ability to explain complex ideas clearly to business users.

You will provide solution architecture leadership across complex transformation programmes, owning design quality, technical assurance and alignment between Snowflake solutions and client objectives.

Your role

As a Snowflake Solution Architect, you will solve our clients’ most challenging business problems by designing modern data architectures and leading the delivery of robust, scalable Snowflake solutions.

As a key member of the team, you will:

· Architecture strategy: Work with senior client stakeholders and internal leadership teams to understand business priorities, define target-state data architectures and shape programme-level Snowflake roadmaps.

· Provide architectural oversight across the delivery lifecycle, from requirements and solution design through testing, deployment, operational readiness and continuous improvement.

· Solution design: Lead the design of scalable, secure, and resilient Snowflake solutions, covering data ingestion, integration, modelling, governance, security, and consumption patterns.

· Technical assurance: Establish architecture principles, standards, and design guardrails; review solution designs and key technical decisions to ensure performance, scalability, security, and maintainability.

· Technology evaluation: Assess emerging Data Cloud capabilities and recommend where they can strengthen client architectures, accelerate migration, or improve platform efficiency.

· Technical leadership: Guide cross-functional engineering teams, communicate architectural intent, and promote reusable patterns, knowledge sharing, and best practices across engagements.

· Client discovery and governance: Lead architecture discovery workshops to understand business objectives, current technology landscapes, delivery constraints and transformation opportunities. Facilitate design authority throughout delivery and ensure solutions follow agreed architecture, security and engineering standards.

· Delivery collaboration: Work with engineering teams to translate architecture into technical delivery, including backlog shaping, design assurance, non-functional requirements, performance optimisation, maintainability and cost management.

· Reusable capability: Apply and contribute to reusable Snowflake architecture patterns, reference architectures, accelerators and delivery best practices.

· Strategic advisory: Contribute technical input to technology strategy, roadmap development and cloud adoption discussions with senior client stakeholders.

· Business development: Support solution proposals, estimates and client presentations by providing architecture input and delivery experience.

You will bring a strong combination of Snowflake architecture expertise, data and AI knowledge, and client-facing leadership, supported by the experience and technical capabilities outlined below, · Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent preferred.

· Proven experience leading the architecture of enterprise-grade data transformation programmes and designing and delivering production-grade solutions on the Snowflake Data Cloud.

· Strong experience defining enterprise solution and data architectures, including managing technical teams and stakeholder relationships.

· Experience leading client discovery, architecture assessments and technology strategy workshops with senior stakeholders.

· Experience acting as an Architecture Lead or facilitate Design Authority across complex transformation programmes, providing architecture governance and technical assurance.

· Deep domain expertise in applying scalable data models within regulated or data-rich industries, including legacy migrations or post-merger integrations.

· SnowPro Core certification is mandatory.

· Experience applying and contributing to reusable architecture patterns, reference architectures or accelerators across delivery engagements

Technical proficiency

· Hands-on experience developing and deploying production-grade cloud data platforms, with evidence of measurable delivery impact.

· Expert-level proficiency in SQL, data modelling, Python and designing scalable solutions natively on the Snowflake Data Cloud, with a background in modern data stack integrations strongly preferred.

· Strong understanding of cloud security controls, data governance and role-based access control.

· Experience defining evaluation frameworks, security controls and responsible AI guardrails for compliant production data and AI solutions.

· Experience across one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP) and its associated data products

· Experience with Snowflake Cortex Code.

· Experience applying Snowflake capabilities to data engineering, analytics and, where relevant, machine learning and AI workloads.

· Experience establishing enterprise governance capabilities such as metadata management, lineage, data quality controls and access controls.

· Experience with production-grade orchestration, monitoring, observability, performance optimisation and cost-aware platform design.

Connect to your Industry

Do you want to be at the heart of some of the biggest and most ambitious AI & Data projects?

Technology & Transformation: How do you make intelligent, future-proof decisions in a world where change is the one constant? That’s exactly what you’ll help our clients do. You’ll build trusted relationships with business stakeholders - and use the most exciting new technologies available - to create data-driven programmes that transform their organisations.

Your advice will help clients position their organisations to succeed in an ever-evolving marketplace.

As a Snowflake Solution Architect, you’ll help shape the architecture behind enterprise Data & AI transformation programmes, defining secure, scalable and future-ready solutions on the Snowflake Data Cloud.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most., Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.

Engineering, AI and Data

We lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your “Immediate Family Members” are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

“The great culture, flexibility, and range of experiences that Deloitte offers is what sets this firm apart. In Technology & Transformation, Deloitte is far ahead of any of our immediate competitors.” - Sophia, Technology & Transformation

“What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” - Dan, Technology & Transformation

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.