Senior Data Platform Architect, Snowflake
3-5 days a week in office
AI Data Cloud for data sharing and app building
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AI Data Cloud for data sharing and app building
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
On a mission to mobilize the world's data.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of architecture and data engineering experience within the Enterprise Data space
- 5+ years experience within a pre-sales environment (Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, etc…)
- Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
- Ability to connect a customer’s specific business problems and Snowflake’s solutions
- Ability to do deep discovery of customer’s architecture framework and connect those with Snowflake Data Architecture
- Broad range of experience within large-scale Database and/or Data Warehouse technology, ETL, analytics and cloud technologies. For example, Data Lake, Data Mesh, Data Fabric
- Hands on Development experience with technologies such as SQL, Python, Pandas, Spark, PySpark, Hadoop, Hive and any other Big data technologies
- Deep understanding of data integration services and tools for building ETL and ELT data pipelines such as Apache NiFi, Matillion, Fivetran, Qlik, or Informatica
- Familiarity with streaming technologies (ex. Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, Kinesis) and real-time or near real time use cases (ex. CDC)
- Experience designing interoperable data lakehouse architectures and experience working with Iceberg, Delta, and Parquet
- Strong architectural expertise in data engineering to confidently present and demo to business executives and technical audiences, and effectively handle any impromptu questions
- Bachelor’s Degree required, Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred
What the job involves
- Our Solution Engineering organization is seeking a Senior Data Platform Architect (Specialist) to join our Applied Field Engineering team who can provide technical leadership in working with both technical and business executives in the design and architecture of the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform as a critical component of their enterprise data architecture and overall ecosystem
- In this role you will work directly with the sales team to understand the needs of our customers, strategize on how to navigate winning sales cycles, provide compelling value-based demonstrations, support enterprise Proof of Concepts, and ultimately close business
- You will leverage your expertise, best practices and reference architectures highlighting Snowflake’s Data Platform capabilities across data ingestion, transformation, and lakehouse workloads. You are equally comfortable in both a business and technical context, interacting with executives and talking shop with technical audiences
- Apply your multi-cloud data architecture expertise while presenting Snowflake technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at strategic prospects, customers, and partners
- Work hands-on with prospects and customers to demonstrate and communicate the value of Snowflake technology throughout the sales cycle, from demo to proof of concept to design and implementation
- Immerse yourself in the ever-evolving industry, maintaining a deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them
- Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Developed as a fresh alternative to the archaic systems of data governance and information silos, Snowflake is a frictionless cloud data platform that removes the barriers preventing organisations of all sizes from unleashing the true value of their data.
The company equips organizations with a single, integrated platform that offers the only data warehouse built for the cloud; instant, secure and governed access to their entire network of data; and a core architecture to enable many types of data workloads, including a single platform for developing modern data applications.
Major competitors include Azure, SQL and AWS, and Snowflake has managed to keep ahead of the competition, cementing itself as a global force. Across its 1300+ partners, the company's cloud manages over 250PB of data (with more than 515 million data workloads running every day). Its continued focus on product R&D and partnership expansion have Snowflake well-positioned to manage itself amidst the competition.
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Insights
37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Feb 2020
$479m
LATE VC
Oct 2018
$450m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.4bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance plans
- Health savings accounts
- Robust retirement plans
- Life and disability insurance
- Weekly online lunch and learns
- Virtual workout classes
- Ergonomic work-from-home equipment
- On-demand mental health and wellness programs
- Fertility benefits and family planning resources
- Generous time-off and various leave plans
- Onsite and Remote Work
- Employee discounts and pre-tax selections
- New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Quarterly bonus or commission program
Company HQ
Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Benoit Dageville
(Co-Founder & President of Product)Benoit, a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning databases, founded Snowflake after 10+ years at Oracle as a lead architect. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has 270+ patents.
Thierry Cruanes
(Co-Founder)Thierry is a leading expert in query optimization and parallel execution. He has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Database Systems and is a named inventor on 200+ patents.
Sridhar Ramaswamy
(Chief Executive Officer)Sridhar joined Snowflake in 2023 via the Neeva acquisition as SVP of AI and later became CEO. He co-founded Neeva and previously led Google’s Ads business, growing it from $1.5B to $100B.
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