Manager, Snowflake Engineer, Snowflake Transformation and Growth
Deloitte
In this role, you design, build and optimise scalable Snowflake-based data and AI-ready solutions for clients. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to modernise data platforms, deliver data pipelines and trusted data foundations, and support analytics and AI workloads. This role blends hands-on engineering with stakeholder engagement to drive high-impact transformation across regulated, data-rich environments. You join a collaborative Engineering, AI & Data team focused on delivering measurable business value.
Pay / Benefits- hybrid working in London
- development opportunities
- work with world-leading clients
- collaborative culture
- focus on wellbeing
- flexible working arrangements
- Lead discussions with technical stakeholders to define data pipelines aligned with architecture
- Develop physical data models for data acquisition, ETL/ELT, and deployment
- Plan and oversee legacy data migrations ensuring scalability, reliability and risk management
- Evaluate Snowflake technologies and integrate changes into client solutions
- Champion delivery practices, reusable code, code reviews and CI/CD across sprint teams
- Design, build, test and deploy scalable batch and near-real-time data pipelines on Snowflake using SQL, Python, Snowpark, Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks and Dynamic Tables
- Lead the full data engineering lifecycle from requirements to deployment and continuous improvement
- Communicate technical decisions clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Design robust data models and ETL/ELT patterns supporting analytics, ML and AI use cases
- Optimise Snowflake workloads for performance, cost, and reliability; implement security, RBAC, governance and data quality
- Prepare governed, reusable datasets and integrate data products with downstream applications
- Apply modern engineering practices: version control, automated testing, IaC, monitoring and data observability
- Produce high-quality artefacts: designs, data models, interface specs, runbooks
- Lead and coach engineers through technical reviews and delivery standards
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative field
- Experience leading engineering workstreams and delivering enterprise data solutions
- Experience delivering data programmes in regulated or data-rich industries
- Experience gathering requirements from business and technical stakeholders and communicating solutions
- Strong analytical, problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
- Experience leading cloud data warehouses using Snowflake and AWS/Azure/GCP
- Proficiency in SQL, Python, Snowpark, Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks and Dynamic Tables
- Knowledge of Snowflake architecture, security features, time travel, cloning and replication
- Experience with query optimisation, clustering and warehouse configuration
- Experience with CI/CD, IaC, automated testing and coding guardrails
- Ability to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences
- Experience enabling AI-ready workloads with governed Snowflake data products
- Experience with orchestration tools and cloud integration services
- Exposure to Terraform or similar IaC tools
- Understanding of data modelling principles for analytics and ML
- Stakeholder engagement
- Strong communication and collaboration
- Problem-solving mindset
- Snowflake
- SQL
- Python
Reference: WJ-747_31049464