Lead Snowflake Engineer - #2167532

Lead Snowflake Engineer - London (Hybrid) - Snowflake - AWS/Azure/GCP - Up to £80,000

Looking to combine hands-on Snowflake engineering with technical leadership?

Join a leading Data & AI consultancy delivering enterprise-scale cloud, analytics and AI transformation programmes for globally recognised organisations. This is an opportunity to lead complex Snowflake initiatives, influence technical direction, and help organisations build modern, AI-ready data platforms.

You'll work alongside highly experienced Data, Cloud and AI professionals, leading engineering workstreams while remaining close to the technology. If you're looking for greater ownership, exposure to large-scale transformation programmes and a clear path for ongoing career progression, this could be the ideal next step.

You Will Work With

• Leading the design and delivery of scalable Snowflake data platforms
• Building and optimising ETL/ELT pipelines using SQL, Python and Snowflake-native technologies
• Delivering enterprise-scale cloud migration and data modernisation programmes
• Creating trusted, AI-ready data products for analytics, machine learning and AI use cases
• Working with Snowpark, Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks and Dynamic Tables
• Driving best practice across data engineering, CI/CD, automation and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Leading stakeholder workshops, technical discussions and solution design sessions
• Optimising Snowflake performance, scalability, governance and cost efficiency
• Mentoring and guiding engineers through technical reviews, quality assurance and delivery best practice
• Collaborating with business and technical stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes

Benefits

• Exposure to enterprise-scale Data, Analytics and AI programmes
• Opportunity to lead high-profile cloud transformation initiatives
• Structured career development and certification support
• Work alongside experienced Data, Snowflake, Cloud and AI specialists
• Access to modern technologies and engineering best practices
• Diverse projects across multiple industries and sectors
• Clear progression opportunities within a growing Data & AI practice

Key Experience

• Proven experience delivering Snowflake solutions within production environments
• Experience leading engineering workstreams or technical teams
• SnowPro Core Certification
• Strong SQL and Python development skills
• Experience building cloud data platforms on AWS, Azure or GCP
• Hands-on experience with Snowpark, Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks and Dynamic Tables
• Strong understanding of data modelling, ETL/ELT and modern data architecture principles
• Experience optimising Snowflake workloads for performance, scalability and cost management
• Knowledge of data governance, security, lineage and role-based access controls
• Exposure to CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code and Terraform
• Experience enabling analytics, machine learning and AI-driven data solutions
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication and leadership skills

Interested?

If you're a Lead Data Engineer, Snowflake Technical Lead or Senior Snowflake Engineer looking to drive enterprise-scale data transformation projects while remaining hands-on with modern cloud and AI technologies, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now or send your CV directly. Interviews are already underway and early applications are encouraged.