Security Architect

Summary

Join Snowflake's team as a Security Architect to secure customers' environments and cultivate key customer relationships.

Requirements

• 10+ years of industry, customer-facing, and hands-on implementation experience with a core focus on data concepts and technologies
• Strong understanding of security related concepts such as RBAC, OAuth, Identity and Access Management, encryption and data governance
• Expertise and in-depth working knowledge of cloud platforms (at least one of the following: AWS, Azure, GCP), and its corresponding security, data encryption, and networking architecture and technologies
• Ability to build out demos, prototypes, and test use cases on the Snowflake platform
• Ability to create security and networking-related reference architectures, best practice and hardening guides, and articulate them to a customer audience
• Knowledge of ANSI SQL compliant databases and / or data warehousing is preferred
• AWS/Azure/GCP security and / or networking specialty related certification achievement is a plus
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, including routing, DNS, Proxies and CSP private networking technologies
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, including cloud service providers like Azure, AWS, and GCP
• Strong understanding of identity management use cases, including authentication (SAML), authorization (OAUTH), and identity governance (SCIM & RBAC)
• Deep experience with large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, presentation and whiteboarding skills to a large audience, and the ability to successfully communicate security and risk-related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences
• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Management Systems, or related field required. Masters preferred

Responsibilities

• Help to scope security related feature enhancements on behalf of customers
• Assist in clarifying data warehouse concepts, industry best practices, and features in the Snowflake platform
• Assist in building demos and prototypes using Snowflake’s marketplace UI in conjunction with other integrated solutions
• Engage with other relevant Snowflake stakeholders internally
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Support in order to drive customer security feature adoption
• Partner with our Product Marketing team to define and support Snowflake's Marketplace posture and security analytics workload awareness and pipeline building via marketing initiatives including conferences, trade shows, and events
• Partner with the best in the industry product team, helping to shape vision and capabilities for Snowflake Data Marketplace
• Share knowledge with internal and industry communities via webinars & conferences