Snowflake Solutions Architect - Professional Services

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary: Not specified (Refer to careers.snowflake.com for US-based roles)

Position Overview

Join the Snowflake team as a Solutions Architect within Professional Services. We are the implementation and strategy experts for the Snowflake platform, engaging with customers throughout their journey to optimize, accelerate, and achieve business outcomes. As a Solutions Architect, you will demonstrate technical leadership by writing code, constructing solution architectures, and guiding customers through decision-making processes to achieve impactful results. You will advise stakeholders, from developers to senior executives, on leveraging Snowflake for business success. We seek individuals comfortable with change and at the cutting edge of technology.

This role requires fluency in both English and French. Location: Open to candidates located anywhere in North America, specifically open to locations in Ontario or Alberta.

Responsibilities

As a Snowflake Solutions Architect, you will:

• Directly engage with customers individually or as part of a technical delivery team.
• Oversee and advise on the implementation of customer Snowflake platforms.
• Demonstrate technical leadership through personally developed code, solution architectures, and implementation recommendations.
• Act as a trusted advisor to customer executive leadership for thought leadership and solution approaches.
• Extract business requirements from customers and translate them into well-architected recommendations.
• Develop and provide forward-looking guidance and future state roadmaps.
• Leverage known best practices and solutions to reduce risk to customer implementations.
• Decompose future state goals into actionable execution plans.
• Collaborate with Snowflake Go-To-Market (GTM) and product teams to ensure customer alignment with Snowflake goals.

Requirements

The ideal candidate for a Solutions Architect will have:

• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related fields, or equivalent practical experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience as a solutions architect, data architect, database administrator, or data engineer.
• 3 years of technical consulting experience.
• Experience in a lead role for analytics projects for large enterprises.
• Experience implementing and operating Snowflake-centric solutions.
• Understanding of the complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design to BI and analytics tools.
• Familiarity with industry-common BI and ETL solutions.
• Hands-on experience in a technical role leveraging SQL, Python, Java, and/or Spark to build, operate, and maintain data analytics solutions.
• Extensive knowledge of and experience with large-scale database technology (e.g., Snowflake, Netezza, Exadata, Teradata, Greenplum, etc.).
• Proficiency in implementing data security measures, access controls, and design specifically within the Snowflake platform.

A Strong Candidate Will Additionally Have:

• Experience in the services organization of a product company.
• Experience in a leadership position executing technical projects.
• Industry vertical expertise (e.g., Media, Financial Services, Healthcare).
• Application Development experience.
• AWS, Google, or Microsoft Cloud certification(s).
• Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Certification(s).

Company Information & Values

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

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com