Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value.

The Snowflake

Center of Excellence (CoE) is focused on building, developing, and delivering holistic data solutions leveraging Snowflake and its evolving data platform. Snowflake’s product roadmap has expanded to meet a wider range of customer needs and is a major player in the data ecosystem that is well-positioned for continued growth and strategic alignment with our work. As an Architect for the Snowflake CoE you will be expected to: Lead a small to medium size agile program pod to deliver cutting‑edge solutions utilizing the Snowflake ecosystem and adjacent technologies to deliver holistic solutions.

Comfortable leading development on at least one of the main cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP). Work as the Solution Architect of a delivery pod with a Delivery Owner to design complex delivery patterns, implement solutions, and build components of our clients’ data platform solutions. Lead a delivery pod in Agile ceremonies and design sessions, break down complex development tasks, take responsibility for the timely completion of your pods assigned development items in the backlog.

Collaborate closely with other Slalom data leaders to drive sales, recruiting, account management, consulting, and operational excellence across the capability. Act as a Snowflake SME, supporting business development efforts and guiding clients through best practices in architecture, core data engineering, and scalable analytics.



Be a mentor and thought leader, regularly recommending emerging technologies and tools that align with client goals and future‑state data strategies.

As a Senior Principal in the Snowflake CoE capability, you will bring a curious mindset to your client’s engagement, a thirst for knowledge, and a hunger for fearless experimentation in new and compelling ways to meet our clients’ most pressing data challenges. You will have an insatiable need to become the best at what you do and will have opportunities to gain hands‑on experience with new tools, features, and platforms as you explore the range of technologies that we help our clients with. Develop and implement data solutions using Snowflake, while collaborating with team members to leverage its capabilities.

Lead and mentor engineering teams, fostering a culture of learning and innovation, while driving best practices in data management and performance optimization. Expert in capturing end‑user requirements and aligning technical solutions to the business objectives.

Experience in leading, designing and implementing Cloud Data strategies, including designing multi‑phased implementation roadmaps. Significant experience in Snowflake and acted as lead data architect on at least two Snowflake implementations. Expertise in data architecture concepts such as dimensional modelling, data vault, data mesh. Understanding data management and governance concepts such as data quality, metadata management, etc.

Experience in designing data engineering solutions using open‑source and proprietary cloud data pipeline tools.





Experience in leading data platform development teams. Knowledge of data science and visualization.

Experience designing Snowflake‑native architectures to support AI and generative AI use cases, including Cortex AI (Analyst, Search, Agents) within a secure, governed platform. Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life.

We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid‑market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. Hybrid/In office In addition, there is potential for a 15% discretionary bonus based on individual and company performance. Holiday parties Employee community groups Social clubs & activities Vacation (20 days prorated based on start date & wellness/sick days) 100 cell phone monthly reimbursement ~ Registered Retirement Program (RRSP) & Employer Matching ~ Tax‑Free Savings Account (TFSA) ~ Maternity/Parental Leave Top‑Up ~ Medical & Dental Benefits ~ Life and AD&D; Insurance ~ Access to Supplementary Life and AD&D; Insurance ~ Access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Inkblot Therapy ~ All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities.

📌 Senior Principal - Snowflake Architect (Calgary)
🏢 Slalom
📍 Calgary