Principal Solutions Architect - Migrations

Responsibilities

• 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

Minimum Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

Additional information

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.

The application window is expected to be open until January 19, 2025. This opportunity will remain posted based on business needs, which may be before or after the specified date.

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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