Principal Solutions Architect - Migrations

Snowflake • Los Angeles, CA

23d • $166,000 - $218,400

About The Position

Snowflake Professional Services provides implementation and strategy expertise for the Snowflake platform, engaging with customers throughout their journey to optimize outcomes. Solutions Architects provide technical leadership by writing code, designing architectures, and guiding customers through decisions. In this role, you will lead and execute complex migrations from legacy systems to Snowflake. You will work closely with customers and system integrators to understand requirements, design migration strategies, and ensure seamless transitions with minimal disruption, collaborating with teams inside and outside Snowflake.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience working with customers in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role, 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 or similar to Snowflake, BigQuery, Teradata, Redshift, Netezza, SAP HANA, Greenplum, or Exadata.
• End-to-end experience migrating on-premises data warehouse solutions to the cloud, including AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong presentation skills for technical and executive audiences, including impromptu whiteboard sessions, presentations, and demos.
• Understanding of the full data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL and data platform design to BI and analytics tools.
• Extensive hands-on expertise with SQL and 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.

Nice To Haves

• 3 years of technical consulting experience.
• Experience with non-relational platforms and tools for large-scale data processing, such as Hadoop or HBase.
• Familiarity and experience with common BI and data exploration tools such as Power BI, MicroStrategy, Business Objects, or Tableau.
• Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, or OpenStack.
• Experience implementing ETL pipelines using custom or packaged tools.
• Software development experience using C/C++, Java, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design comprehensive migration plans and solutions tailored to customer needs and architecture, ensuring a seamless transition to Snowflake.
• Partner with customers and serve as the technical expert for all aspects of Snowflake during implementation.
• Deploy Snowflake according to best practices and transfer knowledge so customers can use and extend the platform independently.
• Maintain a 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 position and deploy Snowflake successfully in customer environments.
• Create presentations and document project learnings.
• Develop utilities and accelerators to streamline migrations and related activities.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake products and marketing.
• Follow Snowflake confidentiality and security standards and protect customer information.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal