Solutions Architect - Migrations

Summary

Join Snowflake's Professional Services team as a Solutions Architect to deploy cloud products and services for customers. The ideal candidate will have experience working with customers in pre-sales or post-sales technical roles and be able to connect business problems with Snowflake's solution.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience working with customers in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role
• Experience migrating from one data platform to another and holistically addressing the unique challenges of migrating to a new platform
• University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience
• 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
• Strong skills in databases, data warehouses, and data processing
• Extensive hands-on expertise with SQL and SQL analytics
• Experience 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 events
• Extensive knowledge of and experience with large-scale database technology (e.g. 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

Responsibilities

• Be a technical expert on all aspects of Snowflake
• Guide customers through the process of migrating to Snowflake and develop methodologies to improve the migration process
• 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
• Work hands-on with customers to demonstrate and communicate implementation best practices on Snowflake technology
• 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
• Provide guidance on how to resolve customer-specific technical challenges
• Support other members of the Professional Services team develop their expertise
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing

Preferred Qualifications

• 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. Microstrategy, Business Objects, Tableau)
• Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, etc.)
• Experience implementing ETL pipelines using custom and packaged tools
• Experience using AWS services such as S3, Kinesis, Elastic MapReduce, Data pipeline
• Experience selling enterprise SaaS software

Benefits

• Unique opportunity to work on a truly disruptive software product
• Get unique, hands-on experience with bleeding edge data warehouse technology
• Develop, lead and execute an industry-changing initiative
• Learn from the best! Join a dedicated, experienced team of professionals