Snowflake

Principal Solutions Architect - Migrations

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2 days ago
Denver, CO, USA +2 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$166k - $218k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design migration plans and customer-specific solutions for transitioning legacy data platforms to Snowflake.
  • Act as the technical expert for Snowflake implementation and deployment, applying best practices and enabling customers to extend the platform independently.
  • Collaborate deeply with customers and system integrators to execute migrations with minimal disruption.
  • Evaluate competitive and complementary technologies and explain Snowflake’s positioning relative to them.
  • Create presentations, document project learnings, and develop utilities and accelerators for migration activities.
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to improve Snowflake products and marketing.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in customer-facing pre-sales or post-sales technical roles, preferably as a solutions architect.
  • Experience migrating between data platforms and addressing the challenges of adopting a new platform.
  • Hands-on experience with data warehouse systems such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Teradata, Redshift, Netezza, SAP HANA, Greenplum, or Exadata.
  • End-to-end experience migrating on-premises data warehouses to AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Strong presentation skills for technical and executive audiences, including whiteboarding, presentations, and demos.
  • Understanding of the full data analytics workflow, from ETL and data platform design through BI and analytics tools.
  • Extensive hands-on expertise with SQL, SQL analytics, and scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Shell.
  • University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: 3 years of technical consulting experience.
  • Preferred: experience with non-relational platforms and large-scale data processing tools such as Hadoop and HBase.
  • Preferred: familiarity with Power BI, MicroStrategy, BusinessObjects, or Tableau.
  • Preferred: experience with infrastructure-as-a-service platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, or OpenStack.
  • Preferred: ETL pipeline implementation and software development experience with C, C++, or Java.

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftApache HadoopApache HBaseAWSAzureBashCC++Google BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaOpenStackPythonSnowflakeSQL

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Snowflake

About Snowflake

10,000+ employees

Snowflake builds a cloud-native data platform used by enterprises to store, integrate, share, and analyze data across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Its core products span data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, and governed data sharing, sold via consumption-based subscriptions. Founded in 2012 and publicly traded on the NYSE (SNOW) following a 2020 IPO, Snowflake supports analytics and data application workloads across industries.

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