Solution Innovation Architect

Salary: $95K - $138.8K Location Type: Remote Employment Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

Join the Snowflake team as a Solution Innovation Architect within our newly formed Solution Innovation team. This role focuses on building repeatable solutions for our most strategic customers, leveraging Snowflake’s emerging product capabilities. You will work as a cross-functional team member to build, enable, and continuously improve these strategic solutions. This is an opportunity to apply your technical leadership to deliver memorable, high-impact solutions that can influence Snowflake’s future product and engineering roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Leverage emerging features and capabilities to create scalable and repeatable solutions for customers.
• Document technical requirements and create technical solution designs and scopes.
• Ensure technical designs are flexible enough to be repeatable and scalable.
• Be responsible for all code development, testing, and remediation of identified issues.
• Build strong rapport and collaborate with cross-functional team members to build best-in-class solutions for scale.
• Present technical material in an easy-to-understand manner.
• Apply Snowflake best practices to solution design.
• Provide thought leadership through external content such as blog posts, webinars, event presentations, and videos.
• Help shape future innovations by identifying emerging trends, white-space opportunities, and building innovative solutions that expand Snowflake’s product offerings and/or influence Product & Engineering roadmaps.
• Provide technical expertise on all aspects of Snowflake in relation to Native Application features and capabilities relevant to customer solution requirements.
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and be comfortable leading customer projects from an internal perspective.

Requirements

• Experience:
  • Minimum of 1-2 years of experience in solution architecture design and implementation.
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience working with customers in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role.
  • Direct experience working in the Enterprise SaaS space (AI/ML, Apps, Data Science, Data Engineering, Data Warehouse, Cloud, Analytics, and/or Business Intelligence).
  • Experience in effectively breaking down complex technical topics for mixed technical and business audiences.
  • Experience in customer-facing roles where you translated customer use cases/needs into technical requirements and designs.
  • Experience with Open Data table formats like Iceberg and data processing engines like Spark is a plus.
• Technical Skills:
  • Deep understanding of on-prem/cloud data platform architectures and databases.
  • Basic understanding of, or some experience with, data platform deployments, AI/ML, and enterprise applications.
  • Knowledge of SQL, and Javascript, Python, Java, Scala, Go, Ruby or other languages.
  • Knowledge of platform and container technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, or Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  • Knowledge of data formats or languages that manage data, including SQL, JSON, AVRO, Apache Parquet, or XML.
• Soft Skills:
  • Organized and able to manage and deliver against multiple projects efficiently and effectively.
• Education:
  • Bachelor’s Degree required.
  • Masters Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred.

About Our Team

Our Solution Engineers are customer-obsessed. We believe in the value we can add and remain honest about it. We love to learn, are open to giving and receiving feedback, and are passionate about making our clients successful. Our team works to ensure data is accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone.

About Snowflake

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We’re passionate about our people, our customers, and our values.