Principal Solutions Architect - Migrations

The role

You will lead and execute complex migrations from legacy systems to the Snowflake platform. You will design migration plans, partner with customers as a technical expert, and collaborate with internal teams to improve products.

What you will do

• Design comprehensive migration plans and solutions tailored to customer needs
• Partner with customers as the technical expert for Snowflake during implementation
• Deploy Snowflake following best practices and ensure knowledge transfer
• Maintain understanding of competitive and complementary technologies
• Work with System Integrator consultants to position and deploy Snowflake
• Create presentations and document project learnings
• Develop utilities and accelerators to streamline migration
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role
• Experience migrating from one data platform to another
• Hands-on experience with data warehouse systems such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Teradata, Redshift, Netezza, SAP HANA, Greenplum, or Exadata
• End-to-end experience migrating on prem data warehouse solutions to the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Skills presenting to technical and executive audiences
• Understanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow
• Extensive hands-on expertise with SQL and scripting languages like Python, Bash, Shell etc.
• University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience

Nice to have

• 3 years of technical consulting 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. Power BI, Microstrategy, Business Objects, Tableau)
• Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, OpenStack, etc.)
• Experience implementing ETL pipelines using custom, packaged tools and software development experience using C/C++, Java etc.

About the company

Snowflake Professional Services is the implementation and strategy experts for the Snowflake platform. They engage with customers to optimize, accelerate, and achieve business outcomes.