Principal Solutions Architect - Migrations

Snowflake Inc.
Denver, CO, United States
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Starter
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
$43,680.0 - $62,400.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Data Analysis Microsoft Azure Bash Shell Big Data BigQuery C++ (Programming Language) Cloud Computing Extract Transform Load (ETL) Data Security Data Warehousing
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Greenplum Oracle Exadata Apache Hadoop Apache HBase Python (Programming Language) MicroStrategy OpenStack Power BI SAP HANA Software Engineering SQL Databases Tableau (Software) Teradata SQL Scripting Google Cloud Netezza Snowflake Sap Business Objects Information Technology Data Analytics Tools for Reporting Software Coding Legacy Systems Amazon Redshift

Job description

The Senior PS Sales Solutions Architect will sell and deliver Snowflake Professional Services by acting as a trusted advisor to clients, leading technical engagements, and creating impactful solutions to drive customer success. The summary above was generated by AI

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset - who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn’t just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

Snowflake Professional Services is the implementation and strategy experts for the Snowflake platform. We engage with customers at all phases of the customer journey to optimize, accelerate, and achieve business outcomes. Our teams of Solutions Architects demonstrate technical leadership everyday by writing code, constructing solution architectures, and guiding customers through decision paths to achieve impactful outcomes. We advise everyone from developers through senior executives on how best to utilize Snowflake to make their business successful. Our Solution Architects are comfortable with change and live on the cutting edge of technology.

In this role, you will lead and execute complex migrations from legacy systems to the Snowflake platform. You will collaborate closely with customers and system integrators to understand their requirements, design robust migration strategies, and ensure seamless transitions with minimal disruption. Additionally, you will work with a diverse range of teams both inside and outside the company., * Design comprehensive migration plans and solutions tailored to the customer’s needs and architecture, ensuring a seamless transition to Snowflake

  • Partner with our customers, acting as the technical expert for all aspects of Snowflake during implementation
  • Deploy Snowflake following best practices, including ensuring knowledge transfer so that customers are properly enabled and are able to extend the capabilities of Snowflake on their own
  • Maintain 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
  • Create presentations and document learnings from the project. Develop utilities and accelerators to streamline migration and related activities
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience working with customers in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role, preferably as a solutions architect
  • Experience migrating from one data platform to another and holistically addressing the unique challenges of migrating to a new platform
  • Hands-on experience working with data warehouse systems including or similar to Snowflake, BigQuery, Teradata, Redshift, Netezza, SAP HANA, Greenplum, Exadata, etc.
  • End-to-end experience migrating on prem data warehouse solutions to the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • 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
  • Extensive hands-on expertise with SQL and SQL analytics and scripting languages like Python, Bash, Shell etc.
  • University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience, * 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.

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About the company

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.

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