Snowflake Solution Architect
John Y. Miller
AI (Cortex, Snowpark) · Security & Governance · Data Architecture · 25+ years
Former Snowflake Senior Solution Architect, Financial Services · Former Accenture Global Chief Data Architect
SnowPro Core · Authorized to work in the US and Canada · Available for contract, remote
13 wk
Bank platform foundation with repeatable environment provisioning
~$2M/yr
Saved for an asset manager by redesigning data sharing
4
Live Snowflake AI capabilities: Agent, Search, Analyst & Streamlit
5 podiums
AI hackathons, including two first-place projects
Summary
Snowflake Solution Architect with 25+ years in enterprise data and architecture.
Makes the consequential Snowflake AI, security and data decisions with clients, then delivers
them: platform foundations, RBAC and identity, live Cortex AI capabilities and AI cost governance,
with reusable patterns the client's own team keeps. Combines senior advisory with hands-on
implementation, with measurable results — including a data-sharing redesign that saves an
asset-management client approximately $2M a year.
Experience
Milbird — Independent Snowflake Solution Architect
March 2024 – Present
San Francisco, CA · practice incorporated as Milbird in January 2025
- AI: delivered four live Snowflake AI capabilities for a healthcare-practice lender in 2026: Cortex Agent, Search, Analyst semantic views and Streamlit. Codified a reusable lending-document discovery framework: 67 documents (61 analyzed), 460 source terms → ~25 canonical concepts. Case study →
- Bank platform: delivered a 13-week Snowflake foundation for a commercial bank in 2026: medallion architecture, 13 databases, 84 schemas and 7 workload-isolated warehouses; reusable SQL builds for dev/QA and production provisioning with dbt/Git. Case study →
- Security: implemented Entra ID SAML2 SSO/SCIM and two-layer RBAC (20 custom roles, 3,700+ grants); delivered an ownership-remediation runbook.
- AI cost governance: reconstructed Cortex usage, identified and tuned the primary cost driver, and delivered reusable ACCOUNT_USAGE monitoring. Current delivery uses Snowpark, Notebooks and Snowpark Container Services.
BBI — VP Strategy
March 2023 – February 2024
San Francisco, CA
- Built BBI's Snowflake Solutions practice to Snowflake Select Partner status; led architecture assessments and solution design for travel/entertainment and financial-services clients.
- Delivered OpenMetadata/GenAI governance, a data-contract marketplace and LangChain/Streamlit RAG for internal knowledge access.
Snowflake — Senior Solution Architect, Financial Services Strategy
June 2021 – March 2023
San Francisco, CA
- Resident Solution Architect and Technical Account Manager for City National Bank, DTCC, MetaBank and New American Funding.
- Delivered data strategy, architecture, roadmaps and best-practice engagements across governance, security, cost, data engineering and access management.
- Saved an asset-management client ~$2M/year by redesigning Snowflake data sharing.
Accenture — Data Strategy, Solution Architect & Data Engineering
June 2019 – May 2021
San Francisco Bay Area · joined via Clarity Insights (acquired by Accenture, June 2020)
- Led utility conversational-AI data delivery and governed wealth-management analytics on AWS/Snowflake; architected an insurer's governed Teradata-to-Snowflake migration with Informatica.
Silicon Valley Data Solutions Group — Founder & Solution Architect
December 2017 – 2019
San Francisco Bay Area · independent consulting practice
- Built an auditable Azure data-science platform for a global bank; automated model-development workflows using Airflow, Spark and Jupyter; led municipal-bond pricing ML.
- Delivered statewide contact-center KPI governance and validation on Snowflake, AWS Athena, Tableau and Python.
Camus Group, LLC — Founder
December 2015 – June 2017
San Francisco Bay Area
- Founded a practice connecting data and data-science startups with Fortune 500 clients.
Accenture — Global Chief Data Architect – Data Insights R&D
September 2008 – July 2015
Toronto, Canada & San Francisco, CA
- Built Accenture's Data Supply Chain architecture and global data-literacy curriculum; created the enterprise-adopted AI/ML Data Quality Rules Accelerator, the basis for two U.S. patents.
Earlier: Global CTO, Energy Practice — Information Management, HP (2007–2008) · CTO, Knightsbridge Solutions (1999–2007) · Senior Consultant, Emergent (1997–1998) · Systems Engineer, IBM (1993–1997)
Snowflake Consulting Capabilities
Advisory & Enablement
Architecture assessments · strategy · roadmaps
Reusable delivery patterns · knowledge transfer · team coaching
AI & Analytics
Cortex Agents · Search · AnalystSemantic views · Streamlit
Snowpark · Snowflake Notebooks · Snowpark Container Services
Snowflake CoCo (Cortex Code) · CoWork (Snowflake Intelligence) · document extraction
Security & Identity
RBAC · SAML2 SSO · SCIM · OAuth · Entra ID · Okta
Masking · row access · PrivateLink · service accounts
SOX · CCPA · GDPR
Data Engineering & Cloud
SQL · Python · dbt · medallion · data contracts
Tasks · Streams · Dynamic Tables · ETL / ELT
Azure: ADF · ADLS Gen2 · Synapse · DevOpsAWS: S3 · Athena
Platform & Delivery
Parameterized provisioning · Git · CI/CD · SchemaChange · Airflow
Warehouse tuning · resource monitors · ACCOUNT_USAGE · Cortex cost analysis
Replication, failover & disaster recovery implemented at two banks
AI Hackathons & Community Leadership
- Five AI hackathon podiums, two first-place projects: Wet Ink (Last Mile Agent, July 2026) and team Read to Play (Better Days by ClickHouse, August 2026).
- Current Snowflake Bay Area User Group Lead: led the AI Agents for Data Teams CoCo hackathon at Silicon Valley AI Hub (September 28, 2026), helping Snowflake users apply CoCo to real data-team tasks. Milbird Field Notes →
- SVAI Ambassador
- VP of Programs & Board Member, DAMA Los Angeles; Host, "DAMA LA Presents"
- Board Member, DAMA San Francisco Bay Area
Education
- Simon Fraser University — B.A.Sc., Computer Engineering (1987–1993)
- Northwestern University — Executive Education: Leading High-Impact Teams (2000)
Languages: English (native) · French (professional working)
Patents
- US 8,412,735 — Automated data-quality rule generation (conditional functional dependencies)
- US 8,666,919 — Data quality management: profiling, linking, cleansing & migration