Snowflake SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT 

Australia, New South Wales, Sydney 

523032000

AS A SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

• Be a technical expert on all aspects of Snowflake

• 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.

OUR IDEAL SOLUTION ARCHITECT WILL HAVE:

• 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

• 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, up to 75% travel.

BONUS POINTS FOR HAVING:

• 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

• Experience delivering data migration projects

• Proven success at enterprise software

WHY JOIN OUR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE:

• 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