Solutions Architect

Summary

Join Snowflake Professional Services team to build the future of data. As a Solutions Architect, you will lead complex migrations from legacy systems to the Snowflake platform, collaborate with customers and system integrators, and work with diverse teams.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a solutions architect, data architect, database administrator, or data engineer
• Experience migrating from one data platform to another and holistically addressing the unique challenges of migrating to a new platform
• Hands-on experience working with data warehouse systems including or similar to Snowflake, BigQuery, Teradata, Redshift, Netezza, SAP HANA, Greenplum, Exadata, etc
• End-to-end experience migrating on prem data warehouse solutions to the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Outstanding skills presenting to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
• Understanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design to BI and analytics tools
• Extensive hands-on expertise with SQL and SQL analytics and scripting languages like Python, Bash, Shell etc
• University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience

Responsibilities

• Design comprehensive migration plans and solutions tailored to the customer's needs and architecture, ensuring a seamless transition to Snowflake
• Partner with our customers, acting as the technical expert for all aspects of Snowflake during implementation
• Deploy 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 own
• Maintain deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them
• Work with System Integrator consultants at a deep technical level to successfully position and deploy Snowflake in customer environments
• Create presentations and document learnings from the project. Develop utilities and accelerators to streamline migration and related activities
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years of technical consulting experience
• Experience with non-relational platforms and tools for large-scale data processing (e.g. Hadoop, HBase)
• Familiarity and experience with common BI and data exploration tools (e.g. Power BI, Microstrategy, Business Objects, Tableau)
• Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, OpenStack, etc.)
• Experience implementing ETL pipelines using custom, packaged tools and software development experience using C/C++, Java etc
• SnowPro Core Certification