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# Finance Semantic & Snowflake Data Architect

- **Company:** Uniting People
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £150,800.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Training Data, Artificial Intelligence, Computing Platforms, ARM Architecture, Cloud Engineering, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Warehousing, Metadata, Enterprise Data Management, Snowflake, Data Layers, Data Lineage
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/gb/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-2533167051D99A071C/

## About the Role

* 15+ years' enterprise data architecture/data warehousing/analytics/Finance technology experience.
 * Strong Finance data architecture experience.
 * Experience with GL, P&L, Revenue, Spend or management reporting.
 * Strong Snowflake architecture experience.
 * Advanced data modelling.
 * Semantic layer architecture.
 * Enterprise data architecture.
 * Business ontology and taxonomy.
 * Metadata and data governance.
 * Data lineage and stewardship.
 * Reusable Finance measures and calculation patterns.
 * Strong senior stakeholder management.
 * Experience operating within regulated environments.

Snowflake/Technical

 * Snowflake platform architecture.
 * Snowflake semantic models.
 * Dynamic tables.
 * Data modelling.
 * Semantic layers.
 * Governed analytical consumption.
 * Cortex awareness.
 * AI-ready data foundations.
 * COCO SDK/agent integration awareness.

Certifications

Preferred:

 * Snowflake architecture/advanced data engineering certification.
 * Data governance certification.
 * Enterprise architecture certification.
 * Cloud architecture certification.

Best fit: Enterprise Data Architect/Finance Data Architect/Snowflake Architect with significant semantic modelling and Finance transformation experience.

## Description

This is a senior architecture/design-authority position responsible for the semantic model, ontology, metadata approach, data-consumption patterns and reusable Finance calculation patterns, including approximately 200 General Ledger measures., * Own the Finance semantic model and architecture.

 * Define Finance business ontology and semantic structures.
 * Design semantic layers connecting Snowflake data with Finance requirements.
 * Define reusable calculation patterns for MTD, QTD and YTD.
 * Establish the approach for approximately 200 GL measures.
 * Govern Finance metrics and business definitions.
 * Define metadata, taxonomy and business glossary approaches.
 * Establish lineage and data-governance practices.
 * Define data-consumption patterns for reporting and AI.
 * Ensure Finance measures are traceable to approved Snowflake data.
 * Establish AI-ready data foundations.
 * Support model-based analytics.
 * Support Snowflake semantic capabilities and agent integration.
 * Act as architecture/design authority across delivery teams.
 * Work with senior Finance, architecture, governance and engineering stakeholders.
 * Document architectural decisions, dependencies and risks.