Snowflake
Sales
PrincipalDataPlatformArchitect-DataEngineering,AppliedFieldEngineering
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“Principal Data Platform Architect - Data Engineering, Applied Field Engineering at Snowflake. Skills: Data Platform Architecture, Data Engineering, Snowflake, Cloud Data Platform. Apply multi-cloud data architecture expertise. Present Snowflake technology and vision”
What You'll Achieve.
Accelerate your impact; Deliver results; Close business
Industry & Context.
Solve problems; Accelerate your impact; Connect a customer’s specific business problems and Snowflake’s solutions; Deep discovery of customer’s architecture framework
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
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., 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, 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
Nice to Have
Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred
What You'll Do.
Apply multi-cloud data architecture expertise
Present Snowflake technology and vision
Work hands-on with prospects and customers
Demonstrate and communicate value of Snowflake technology
Immerse in the ever-evolving industry
Maintain deep understanding of competitive technologies
Collaborate with Product Management
Collaborate with Engineering
Collaborate with Marketing
Continuously improve Snowflake’s products
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with Product Management; Collaborate with Engineering; Collaborate with Marketing; Work directly with the sales team
Communication Scope
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; Confidently present and demo to business executives and technical audiences; Effectively handle any impromptu questions
Full Job Description
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. 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. IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO: - Apply your multi-cloud data architecture expertise while presenting Snowflake technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at strategic prospects, customers, and partners - Work hands-on with prospects and customers to demonstrate and communic
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