Snowflake PRINCIPAL DATA PLATFORM ARCHITECT APPLICATIONS FIELD CTO 

United States 

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• Apply your data application architecture expertise while presenting Snowflake technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at strategic prospects, customers, and partners
• Work with our product management, partners, and sales teams in order to drive innovation in our Cloud Data Platform
• Partner with sales team and channel partners to understand the needs of our customers, strategize on how to navigate and accelerate winning sales cycles, provide compelling value-based enterprise architecture deliverables and working sessions to ensure customers are set up for success operationally, and support strategic enterprise pilots / proof-of-concepts
• Collaborate closely with our Product team to effectively influence the Cloud Data Platform product roadmaps based on field team and customer feedback
• Partner with Product Marketing teams to spread awareness and support pipeline building via customer roundtables, conferences, events, blogs, webinars, and whitepapers
• Contribute to the creation of reference architectures, blueprints, best practices, etc. based on field experience to continue to up-level and enable our internal stakeholders and Snowflake Powered by Program

• 10+ years of full stack application architecture experience with a deep understanding of how to scale applications with large data sets
• 3+ years of Cloud Provider (AWS, Azure, GCP) customer facing application development experience
• 1+ years of Snowflake experience
• 2+ years of experience in building/utilizing various data connectivity tools like connectors & drivers which enable access to a library of data sources.
• Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
• Broad range of experience with on-prem and/or cloud databases
• Experience with decomposing application components and determining how to leverage various technologies found with modern cloud services.
• Knowledge of SQL, and Javascript, Python, Java, Scala, Go, Ruby or other languages
• Knowledge of platform and container technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, or Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Knowledge of data formats or languages that manage data, including SQL, JSON, AVRO, Apache Parquet or XML
• Experience with Open Data table formats like Iceberg and data processing engine like Spark is a plus.
• Bachelor’s Degree required, Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experiencepreferred

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $176,000 - $252,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake’s bonus and equity plan.