Solutions Architect, Snowflake
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Cloud data platform providing data warehouse-as-a-service for the cloud
Open for applications
Cloud data platform providing data warehouse-as-a-service for the cloud
1001+ employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
On a mission to mobilize the world's data.
Role
Who you are
- For our Amsterdam office, we are looking for technology thought leaders who have a strong background in building data platforms and love to use their skills to generate value by supercharging data teams
- People who have a strong track record in building best in class cloud data platforms and strong consulting skills
- Our Architects are required to have 12+ years of experience in a customer facing technical role and a working experience in
- Distributed systems and massively parallel processing technologies and concepts such as Snowflake, Teradata, Spark, Databricks, Hadoop, Oracle, SQL Server, and performance optimisation
- Data strategies and methodologies such as Data Mesh, Data Vault, Data Fabric, Data Governance, Data Management, Enterprise Architecture
- Data organisation and modeling concepts and techniques such as Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Medallion architecture, Kimball dimensional modeling, and 3NF database normalisation
- Infrastructure concepts such as the Cloud Hyperscalers (e.g. AWS and Azure) fundamentals of IaaS, PaaS, Networking, Security, Encryption, Identity and Access Management, and Disaster Recovery Planning
- Data Engineering concepts and frameworks such as batch processing, stream processing, replication, SQL, DBT, Talend, Informatica, Python, Snowpark, PySpark, DataFrames, storage formats (e.g Parquet, Avro, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake), Orchestration and DevOps
- Business Intelligence and analytics solutions such as Tableau, PowerBI, MicroStrategy, Thoughtspot, SAS, Streamlit, and techniques such as time series analysis, Advanced SQL, and statistical analysis (e.g linear regression, variance analysis, modeling, and forecasting)
- AI/ML fundamental understanding of key concepts such as classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, Natural Language Processing and Language Models
- Our ideal candidate helps bring structure and clarity in complex and continuously evolving environments, and must have a strong ability in leading engagements with internal and external stakeholders at different levels of the organisation (Development teams to Leadership)
- A strong industry experience in the Financial services, Retail, or the Healthcare & Life Sciences will be an advantage
What the job involves
- Our team helps customers on their data journey with Snowflake, which is the central data platform for companies big and small. That means you will work on some of the most challenging data projects in the world, in a post-sales capacity
- We are the Professional Services team of Snowflake, which means we provide expert advisory services to our customers and help them build enterprise solutions that shape their businesses
- A customer journey might start with a migration project where we plan the when and how to migrate their workloads to Snowflake and execute the plan. Or it might begin with a greenfield project, where we simultaneously teach and demonstrate the best practices for working with Snowflake and translate them to our customers' specific use cases
- We also support our customers in long-term continuous engagements, where we guide them from the initial setup of the platform all the way to the onboarding and the deployment of hundreds of their use cases. We thrive on solving complex data management and governance challenges
- We strive to be our customers' trusted technology advisors and aim to maximise the value from their Snowflake investment
- Engage with several Snowflake customers
- Lead technical streams of client data platform implementations and on-boarding efforts
- Work with the other Customer Engagement and Delivery matrix resources to ensure proper technical guidance, project management and functional support
- Collaborate as needed with different Snowflake organisations: Engineering, Support, Sales and Marketing
- Help clients troubleshoot their implementations and integrate the product within their ecosystem
- Identify, document, triage and track issues to ensure resolution
- Actively contribute to the growth and scalability of the Customer Delivery and Training and Education teams through robust documentation, continuous process optimization, and capability cross-training
- Apply industry/domain/technology expertise to client implementations
- Gather intelligent product feedback and recommendations from customers to design and inform new features and capabilities
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 organizations 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 values
- Put Customers First - We only succeed when our customers succeed
- Integrity Always - Be open, honest and respectful
- Think Big - Be ambitious and have big goals
- Be Excellent - Quality and excellence count in everything we do
- Get It Done - Results matter. Work hard and smart
- Own It - Build our product and our company like it’s yours, because it is
- Make Each Other the Best - Treat people with kindness and respect
- Embrace Each Other's Differences - Accept and appreciate everyone from every walk of life
Company HQ
Bozeman, MT
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Leadership
Benoit Dageville
(Co-Founder)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.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Snowflake
- At Snowflake, embracing each others’ differences is a core value of our organization. We recognize and appreciate the importance of creating an environment in which all employees feel valued, included, and empowered to do their best work and bring great ideas to the table. Promoting the values of diversity and fostering an inclusive workplace culture takes each of us working together, caring deeply, and acting intentionally.
- Since Day 1, Snowflake and its culture belong to each of us, We “own it.” Owning it means we continually look for ways to improve and it’s in that spirit that our Diversity Council was formed. Our Council spans every functional area with an eye towards diverse representation across a range of demographics - 50% female, 50% persons of color, 21% LGBTQ, 7% persons with disabilities, and four generations. The Council narrowed in on three priority areas to focus our initiatives and impact positive change.
- 1. Enabling employee and community readiness by creating focus groups and using data to reveal deeper insights into our community and our specific needs and challenges to guide our future efforts and target initiatives.
- 2. Empowering employees’ voices by organizing outlets for conversation, spotlighting different employee stories, building mentorship programs, and supporting cultural inclusion.
- 3. Building external partnerships to broaden demographic representation in our candidate pipeline and educational partnerships to enable equitable opportunities for generations to come.
- As a company of action, we are committed to managing and measuring our forward progress around diversity and inclusion. And because we are a data company, the approach of gaining insights from the data, setting targets, measuring results, and iterating is in our DNA. We have put in place the foundational groundwork to ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion for right now and for the future of Snowflake.
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