Principal Data Platform Architect

The role

You will provide technical leadership in the design and architecture of the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform. You will work with sales teams to understand customer needs, conduct demonstrations, and support Proof of Concepts to close business.

What you will do

• Apply multi-cloud data architecture expertise when presenting Snowflake technology to executives and technical contributors.
• Work hands-on with prospects and customers to demonstrate Snowflake value throughout the sales cycle.
• Maintain a deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to improve products and marketing.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of architecture and data engineering experience within the Enterprise Data space
• 5+ years experience within a pre-sales environment (Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, etc)
• Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences
• Ability to connect a customer's specific business problems and Snowflake's solutions
• Ability to do deep discovery of customer's architecture framework and connect those with Snowflake Data Architecture
• Broad range of experience within large-scale Database and/or Data Warehouse technology, ETL, analytics and cloud technologies
• Hands on Development experience with technologies such as SQL, Python, Pandas, Spark, PySpark, Hadoop, Hive and any other Big data technologies
• Deep understanding of data integration services and tools for building ETL and ELT data pipelines such as Apache NiFi, Matillion, Fivetran, Qlik, or Informatica
• Familiarity with streaming technologies (ex. Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, Kinesis) and real-time or near real time use cases (ex. CDC)
• Experience designing interoperable data lakehouse architectures and experience working with Iceberg, Delta, and Parquet
• Strong architectural expertise in data engineering to present and demo to business executives and technical audiences
• Bachelor's Degree required

Nice to have

• Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred

About the company

Snowflake is empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential. The company has a culture focused on impact, innovation, and collaboration.