AS A SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL:
- 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 professional services for ongoing delivery
OUR IDEAL SOLUTIONS 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
- 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 FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:
- 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 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.