Contract: Finance Semantic & Snowflake Data Architect
Rate: £580 per day Inside IR35
Contract: Initial contract - 1 year
Location: UK/Remote
The Opportunity
We are looking for a senior Finance Semantic & Snowflake Data Architect to define and govern the Finance semantic architecture connecting Snowflake data assets with Finance business meaning.
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 .
Key Responsibilities
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.
Essential Experience
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.
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Finance Semantic & Snowflake Data Architect employer: Uniting People
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