Solutions Architect

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.We are looking for a Solutions Architect to be part of our Professional Services team to deploy cloud products and services for our customers. This person must be a hands-on, self-starter who loves solving innovative problems in a fast-paced, agile environment. The ideal candidate will have the insight to connect a specific business problem and Snowflake’s solution and communicate that connection and vision to various technical and executive audiences.The person we’re looking for shares our passion about reinventing the data platform and thrives in the dynamic environment. That means having the flexibility and willingness to jump in and get done what needs to be done to make Snowflake and our customers successful. It means keeping up to date on the ever-evolving technologies for data and analytics in order to be an authoritative resource for Snowflake, System Integrators and customers. And it means working collaboratively with a broad range of people both inside and outside the company.AS A SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:Be a technical expert on all aspects of SnowflakeGuide customers through the process of migrating to Snowflake and develop methodologies to improve the migration processDeploy Snowflake following best practices, including ensuring knowledge transfer so that customers are properly enabled and are able to extend the capabilities of Snowflake on their ownWork hands-on with customers to demonstrate and communicate implementation best practices on Snowflake technologyMaintain deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to themWork with System Integrator consultants at a deep technical level to successfully position and deploy Snowflake in customer environmentsProvide guidance on how to resolve customer-specific technical challengesSupport other members of the Professional Services team develop their expertiseCollaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing.OUR IDEAL SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT WILL HAVE:Minimum 10 years of experience working with customers in a pre-sales or post-sales technical roleExperience migrating from one data platform to another and holistically addressing the unique challenges of migrating to a new platformUniversity degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experienceOutstanding skills presenting to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demosUnderstanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design to BI and analytics toolsStrong skills in databases, data warehouses, and data processingExtensive hands-on expertise with SQL and SQL analyticsExperience and track record of success selling data and/or analytics software to enterprise customers; includes proven skills identifying key stakeholders, winning value propositions, and compelling eventsExtensive knowledge of and experience with large-scale database technology Netezza, Exadata, Teradata, Greenplum, etc.)Software development experience with C/C++ or Java.Scripting experience with Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash.Ability and flexibility to travel to work with customers on-site 25% of the timeBONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:Experience with non-relational platforms and tools for large-scale data processing Hadoop, HBase)Familiarity and experience with common BI and data exploration tools Microstrategy, Business Objects, Tableau)Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, etc.)Experience implementing ETL pipelines using custom and packaged toolsExperience using AWS services such as S3, Kinesis, Elastic MapReduce, Data pipelineExperience selling enterprise SaaS softwareProven success at enterprise softwareWHY JOIN OUR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?Unique opportunity to work on a truly disruptive software productGet unique, hands-on experience with bleeding edge data warehouse technologyDevelop, lead and execute an industry-changing initiativeLearn from the best Join a dedicated, experienced team of professionals.Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.