Principal Architect - Snowflake
SHI International Corp.2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead qualification, customer discovery, target architecture design, effort and risk sizing, and technical content development for Snowflake proposals and Statements of Work.
- Build and maintain technical relationships with customer architects, data leaders, and other technical stakeholders.
- Assess migration effort, complexity, and risk for enterprise transformation initiatives.
- Review architecture decisions during delivery and ensure solutions align with the original scope and proposal.
- Identify delivery risks early and remain engaged through delivery to maintain technical accountability.
- Define Snowflake service-offering scope, success criteria, measurable outcomes, evidence of successful delivery, and repeatable execution frameworks.
- Partner with Snowflake field teams, specialist architects, and vendor technical stakeholders on customer engagements.
- Guide platform and environment design, warehouse and compute architecture, connectivity, data residency, cost architecture, migrations, data engineering, semantic layers, governance, and consumption economics.
Requirements
- Substantial hands-on Snowflake experience gained at a Snowflake partner, Snowflake, or through management of a significant internal Snowflake environment.
- Deep expertise in platform architecture, enterprise migration and consolidation, and data engineering, with sufficient proficiency to identify when specialist support is needed in other areas.
- Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale migration and consolidation initiatives and discussing a major migration engagement in detail, including lessons learned and outcomes.
- Experience with migrations from SAP and Oracle environments is particularly valuable; experience with Teradata, SQL Server, appliance platforms, and other cloud data warehouses is relevant.
- Demonstrated success operating at Principal Architect level or equivalent and serving as the senior technical authority in customer engagements.
- Ability to commit organizations to technical approaches, architectures, and delivery scopes.
- Presales experience or delivery leadership demonstrating the ability to lead customer discussions, define scope and approach, develop proposals and Statements of Work, and stand behind sales-process commitments.
- Comfort collaborating with and being challenged by vendor architects and technical specialists.
- Snowflake certification is preferred, with the ability to obtain certification quickly if not already certified.
Benefits
- Certification support and funding are provided.
- Benefits may include medical, vision, dental, 401K, and flexible spending.
- The role offers professional growth and leadership opportunities, with access to world-class facilities and required technology in company offices or remotely.
Tech Stack
Microsoft SQL ServerSnowflake
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About SHI International Corp.
SHI International is a privately held IT solutions provider and reseller that supplies software licensing, hardware, cloud, security, and managed services to enterprises, governments, and education customers. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, SHI operates globally with in-house integration and device configuration centers plus procurement and asset management services. It is the largest minority- and woman-owned business enterprise in the United States.