Snowflake Field CTO

Blend360•New York, NY

6d•$250,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Blend360 is seeking a Snowflake Field CTO to join their growing Snowflake practice. This role involves driving the pre-sales motion, acting as a strategic advisor to customers, and designing AI Data Cloud architectures using Snowflake. You will conduct customer workshops, hands-on labs with Snowflake sales teams, and lead pre-sales efforts to secure Snowflake opportunities. Additionally, you will collaborate with internal teams to design solutions and accelerators for faster customer time-to-value. As a Field CTO and Snowflake Architect, you will be the technical authority, making platform decisions, representing them to clients, and guiding teams through data and AI architecture complexities. You will report to Blend’s VP of Practice and Solutions and Global Snowflake Practice Head, working within the practices and solutions team, delivery team, and interacting with client executive leadership.

Requirements

15+ years in data or platform architecture, with at least 3 years on systems at significant scale.
Deep experience with Snowflake and AWS (or other) cloud service providers, or a comparable enterprise data platform.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical strategy in high-stakes client or executive contexts.
Background in consulting delivery or embedded partner roles.
Migration or Modernization expertise in Snowflake.
Building Data Mesh architecture with data sharing capabilities of Snowflake.
Worked with Snowflake sales and solutions team.
Enterprise data platforms (Snowflake plus AWS or equivalent).
Real-time and batch data architecture.
ML/AI systems and embeddings infrastructure.
Cortex AI, CoWork and AI architecture of Snowflake.
Data integration capabilities including Snowflake native as well as expertise on 3rd party solutions such as Fivetran, dbt and/or other relevant providers.
Worked directly with CTO-level stakeholders and executives with clear communication.
Comfortable moving between technical depth and business context.
Ability to articulate architectural tradeoffs clearly and in terms of business impact.
Comfortable working and leading high-stakes clients in their Snowflake journey.
Asks hard questions about scale, cost, compliance, and risk before committing to approaches.
Holds opinions but updates them when presented with better information.
Sees role as unblocking the team.
Worked in embedded delivery, presales or partner roles.
Does not need to own everything to drive impact.
Values getting to the right answer over being the one with the answer.

Nice To Haves

Clean room or federated data architecture experience or feature store work.
Identity resolution or data monetization projects.
AWS or cloud infrastructure design.
Snowflake certification.
How to launch our solutions as Snowflake marketplace.

Responsibilities

Define and validate the technical blueprint across cloud data warehouse, clean room infrastructure, embedding compute, and AI architecture.
Design Data and AI architecture with best practices recommendations leveraging Snowflake technology stack.
For pre-sales and solutioning efforts, recommend the solution approach, prepare high-level effort estimates, and lead presentations to client stakeholders.
Identify and resolve critical path blockers across infrastructure, data architecture and integrations, and identity resolution as a Snowflake technical thought leader.
Pressure-test technical proposals against real-world scale and operational complexity.
Bridge between Blend’s engineering and data science teams and the client’s senior technical stakeholders as a Snowflake technical subject matter expert and chief architect.
Drive GTM initiatives working with the Practices and Solution team.
Participate in regular leadership touchpoints within Blend, Snowflake team as well as with client leadership as required.
Creatively identify gaps and opportunities to drive more value for customers using Snowflake solutions, translating technical capabilities into commercially relevant differentiation.
Ensure the technical roadmap aligns with go-to-market solutions and accelerators.
Serve as a credible technical voice in early client and partner conversations.