SC Cleared Snowflake Architect | Remote

Snowflake Architect | Remote

We're looking for an experienced Snowflake Architect to take ownership of an enterprise-scale data platform and shape its future technical and operational direction. This is a senior, customer-facing position supporting complex programmes across highly secure public sector environments.

The Role

You'll lead the architecture, governance and optimisation of the Snowflake estate, assessing its current maturity and defining a scalable target operating model. Alongside setting the technical direction, you'll remain close to delivery, providing hands-on support across platform configuration, Infrastructure as Code, security and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the design and ongoing evolution of an enterprise Snowflake platform.
• Assess the existing estate and develop its future architecture and operating model.
• Strengthen governance across RBAC, security controls, data classification and regulatory compliance.
• Build and maintain Terraform modules for Snowflake provisioning, configuration and data onboarding.
• Improve monitoring, observability, workload management and platform cost control.
• Establish consistent engineering, deployment and support standards across the platform.

Essential

• Significant experience architecting and improving enterprise-scale Snowflake environments.
• Strong understanding of Snowflake security, RBAC, governance and access-control models.
• Hands-on Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Previous involvement in Snowflake maturity assessments or platform transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of resource monitoring, performance optimisation and FinOps principles.
• Experience designing platform operating models within complex or multi-business environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.
• British citizenship and continuous UK residency for the past five years to meet security-clearance requirements.
• Must hold active SC Clearance.

Desirable

• Broader cloud architecture experience across AWS or Azure.
• Experience introducing automated platform provisioning and CI/CD practices.
• Knowledge of enterprise monitoring and observability tooling.
• Previous experience developing or leading a dedicated Snowflake platform capability.

The Details

• Contract
• Inside IR35
• 6 months + extensions
• Location: Remote with ad hoc site visits in the South West.
• Clearance: SC Cleared

If you're an experienced Snowflake Architect who enjoys combining strategic platform ownership with hands-on technical delivery, please apply to discuss the opportunity further.