Solutions Architect

Solutions Architect at Snowflake

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 Service Delivery (SD) team to deploy cloud products and services for our customers' Global Competency Centers located in India. 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.

This person will have a broad range of skills and experience ranging from data architecture to ETL, security, performance analysis, analytics, etc. He/she will have the insight to make the connection between a customer’s specific business problems and Snowflake’s solution, the customer-facing skills to communicate that connection and vision to a wide variety of technical and executive audiences, and the technical skills to be able to not only build demos and execute proof-of-concepts but also to provide consultative assistance on architecture and implementation.

The person we’re looking for shares our passion for reinventing the data platform and thrives in a dynamic environment. That means having the flexibility and willingness to jump in and get it done to make Snowflake and our customers successful. It means keeping up to date on the ever-evolving data and analytics technologies, and working collaboratively with a broad range of people inside and outside the company to be an authoritative resource for Snowflake and its customers.

What You Will Do

• Be a technical expert on all aspects of Snowflake
• Present Snowflake technology and vision to executives and technical contributors to customers.
• Position yourself as a Trusted Advisor to key customer stakeholders with a focus on achieving their desired Business Outcomes.
• Drive project teams towards common goals of accelerating the adoption of Snowflake solutions.
• Demonstrate and communicate the value of Snowflake technology throughout the engagement, from demo to proof of concept to running workshops, design sessions and implementation with customers and stakeholders.
• Create repeatable processes and documentation as a result of customer engagement.
• Collaborate on and create Industry based solutions that are relevant to other customers in order to drive more value out of Snowflake.
• Deploy Snowflake following best practices, including ensuring knowledge transfer so that customers are correctly enabled and can extend the capabilities of Snowflake on their own.
• Maintain a 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
• Be able to position and sell the value of Snowflake SD for ongoing delivery

What We Are Looking For

• Minimum 10 years of experience working with customers in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role
• 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
• Proficiency in implementing data security measures, access controls, and design within the Snowflake platform.
• Extensive knowledge of and experience with large-scale database technology (e.g. Netezza, Exadata, Teradata, Greenplum, etc.)
• Software development experience with Python, Java , Spark and other Scripting languages
• Internal and/or external consulting experience.
• Deep collaboration with Account Executives and Sales Engineers on account strategy.

Bonus Points

• 1+ years of practical Snowflake 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. Microstrategy, Looker, Tableau, PowerBI)
• OLAP Data modeling and data architecture experience
• Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, etc.)
• Experience using AWS services such as S3, Kinesis, Elastic MapReduce, Data pipeline
• Experience delivering data migration projects
• Expertise in a core vertical such as Financial Services, Retail, Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, Life-Sciences etc.
• Hands-on experience with Python, Java or Scala.

Why Join Our Service Delivery Team?

• 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.

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.

Key skills/competency

• Data Architecture
• ETL
• SQL Analytics
• Cloud Computing
• Data Warehousing
• Data Security
• Consulting
• Customer Engagement
• Solution Design
• BI Tools