Data Platform Architect - Data Engineering (Streaming Solutions)

Our Solution Engineering organization is seeking a Principal Solutions architect with Data Engineering expertise to join our Applied Field Engineering team who can provide technical leadership in working with both technical and business executives in the design and architecture of the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform as a critical component of their enterprise data architecture and overall ecosystem. In this role you will work directly with the sales team to understand the needs of our customers, strategize on how to navigate winning sales cycles, provide compelling value-based demonstrations, support enterprise Proof of Concepts, and ultimately close business. You will leverage your expertise, best practices and reference architectures highlighting Snowflake's Data Platform capabilities across data ingestion, transformation, and lakehouse workloads. You are equally comfortable in both a business and technical context, interacting with executives and talking shop with technical audiences., * Apply your multi-cloud data architecture expertise while presenting Snowflake technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at strategic prospects, customers, and partners

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• 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, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos.
• 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. For example, Data Lake, Data Mesh, Data Fabric
• 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 confidently present and demo to business executives and technical audiences, and effectively handle any impromptu questions

Bachelor's Degree required, Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred

Snowflake is growing fast, and we're scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

Be an Early Applicant Remote Hiring Remotely in CO, USA 189K-248K Annually Expert/Leader Remote Hiring Remotely in CO, USA 189K-248K Annually Expert/Leader The Data Platform Architect will lead technical efforts in designing Snowflake's data solutions for enterprise clients, collaborating with sales, presenting to executives, and integrating complex data technologies. The summary above was generated by AI

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