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Delivery Manager, Snowflake Transformation and Growth

Posted 3 days 4 hours ago by Deloitte (UK)

Permanent
Full Time
I.T. & Communications Jobs
London, United Kingdom
Job Description
Do you want to be at the heart of some of the biggest and most ambitious AI & Data projects?

Technology & Transformation: How do you make intelligent, future-proof decisions in a world where change is the one constant? That's exactly what you'll help our clients do. You'll build trusted relationships with business stakeholders - and use the most exciting new technologies available - to create data-driven programmes that transform their organisations.

Your advice will help clients position their organisations to succeed in an ever-evolving marketplace.

As a Snowflake Delivery Manager, you'll lead the mobilisation and delivery of enterprise Data & AI transformation programmes, bringing together client stakeholders, architects, engineers and partner teams to deliver secure, scalable Snowflake solutions and measurable business outcomes.

Connect to your career at Deloitte Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte?It'show we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, whereverwe arein the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,fosterinclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision wemake and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it mattersmost .

Connect to your opportunity We are seeking an experienced Snowflake Delivery Manager to join our Snowflake Transformation & Growth team, a centre of excellence within Deloitte's Engineering, AI & Data service offering. You will manage the delivery of Snowflake transformation projects and work closely with clients, third parties and Deloitte teams. The role requires strong delivery management skills, sufficient Snowflake knowledge to work confidently with technical teams, and the ability to communicate clearly with business stakeholders.

You will manage delivery outcomes across the project lifecycle, maintaining clear plans, governance, controls and reporting while helping multidisciplinary teams deliver high-quality solutions predictably and in line with client objectives.

Your role As a Snowflake Delivery Manager, you will lead clients in complex programme across its lifecycles, mobilizing teams and governing delivery to implement and operate secure, scalable snowflake solutions.

As a key member of the team, you will:
  • Client Engagement: Work directly with client stakeholders and internal delivery leads to understand priorities, coordinate delivery and maintain alignment with agreed business goals.
  • Snowflake Delivery Management: Manage the planning and end-to-end delivery of Snowflake Data Cloud projects, including migration activities, team coordination, release management and production deployment.
  • Operational Oversight: Coordinate legacy data migration and integration activities, monitoring timelines, dependencies, delivery quality and operational readiness.
  • Risk & Project Governance: Serve as the primary point of contact for project health, actively evaluating delivery risks and integrating agile management advancements into client solutions and internal frameworks.
  • Team Leadership: Coordinate and support cross-functional teams, promoting collaboration, knowledge sharing, reusable assets and agile delivery practices.
  • Project planning: Maintain delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, quality gates and controls across assigned Snowflake workstreams.
  • Scope and change control: Maintain clear scope, priorities and acceptance criteria; assess change requests and communicate their impact on delivery, cost, resources, dependencies and outcomes.
  • Governance and reporting: Establish proportionate governance forums and provide clear, evidence-based reporting on progress, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions and actions for client and Deloitte stakeholders.
  • Financial and commercial management: Manage delivery budgets, forecasts, resource plans and commercial obligations, escalating material variances and supporting timely corrective action.
  • Quality and release assurance: Coordinate architecture, engineering, testing, security and operational-readiness activities so that releases meet agreed quality, control and acceptance requirements.
  • Risk, issue and dependency management: Maintain active RAID management, drive mitigations and decisions, and resolve cross-team blockers through appropriate escalation routes.
  • Stakeholder alignment: Facilitate planning, governance and decision-making sessions, communicating delivery choices, trade-offs and impacts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Operational transition: Plan cutover, service transition, knowledge transfer, support arrangements and handover into business-as-usual or managed-service teams.
  • Continuous improvement: Use delivery insights, retrospectives and performance measures to improve ways of working, reusable delivery assets and programme outcomes.
  • Growth support: Contribute to proposals, delivery approaches, estimates, mobilisation plans and client presentations for Snowflake opportunities.
Connect to your skills and professional experience You will bring a strong combination of programme-delivery leadership, Snowflake platform knowledge and client-facing skills. You are structured and collaborative, creating clarity in complex programmes and enabling multidisciplinary teams to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Education & Experience
  • Bachelor's degree in a related discipline, or equivalent preferred; advanced degree in business is a plus.
  • Experience managing enterprise technology projects, including coordinating cross-functional technical teams and stakeholder relationships.
  • Domain expertise in managing cloud data implementations, legacy migrations, or post-merger integrations within a regulated or data-rich industry.
  • Relevant industry certifications (PMP, Agile/Scrum Master) and a deep understanding of project delivery frameworks are highly desirable.
  • SnowPro certification is desirable.
  • Demonstrated experience managing technology-modernisation delivery from planning through production deployment and operational transition.
  • Experience supporting proposals, estimates and mobilisation planning for Snowflake or cloud data-platform opportunities.
Technical proficiency
  • Proven experience as a Delivery Manager or similar role leading enterprise Snowflake implementations, migrations, and production services.
  • Demonstrated success managing the delivery lifecycle of production-grade technology migrations or modernisation solutions.
  • Proficiency in Agile/Scrum methodologies, and modern delivery frameworks, including Azure DevOps, Jira, and specialised tracking libraries strongly preferred.
  • Deep understanding of Snowflake architecture and delivery considerations, including the separation of storage and compute, virtual warehouse sizing, workload scalability, performance optimisation, security and governance, and consumption-cost management.
  • Hands-on experience designing and implementing robust risk evaluation frameworks, communication best practices, and governance guardrails to ensure safe, responsible, and compliant deployment of transformation systems.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to present clear project updates to senior audiences.
  • Experience managing integrated delivery plans, release schedules, RAID logs, dependencies, change control, quality gates and acceptance processes across multidisciplinary teams.
  • Experience tracking project budgets, forecasts, resource plans and delivery performance, with timely escalation where required.
  • Understanding of testing, security assurance, operational readiness, cutover and service-transition activities for cloud data-platform implementations.
  • Ability to use delivery tools to provide concise, transparent and decision-focused programme updates.
Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we'll make an impact that matters.

Engineering, AI and Data We lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients' organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.

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