Solutions Architect - West

Snowflake • Washington, DC

4d • $136,000 - $178,500

About The Position

Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. Solutions Architect Snowflake Professional Services is the implementation and strategy experts for the Snowflake platform. We engage with customers at all phases of the customer journey to optimize, accelerate, and achieve business outcomes. Our teams of Solutions Architects demonstrate technical leadership everyday by writing code, constructing solution architectures, and guiding customers through decision paths to achieve impactful outcomes and thoughtfully use AI to augment their business. We advise everyone from developers through senior executives on how best to utilize Snowflake to make their business successful. Our Solution Architects are comfortable with change and live on the cutting edge of technology.

Requirements

• BA/BS in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent practical experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a solutions architect, data architect, database administrator, or data engineer
• 3 years of technical consulting experience
• Experience in a lead role for analytics projects for large enterprises
• Experience implementing and operating Snowflake centric solutions
• Understanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design to BI and analytics tools
• Familiarity with AI/ML and Transformation technologies
• Familiarity with ML Ops standard practices
• Familiarity with industry common BI and ETL solutions
• Hands-on experience in a technical role leveraging SQL and Python (optionally Java or Spark) to build, operate and maintain data analytics solutions
• Extensive knowledge of and experience with large-scale database technology (e.g. Snowflake, Netezza, Exadata, Teradata, Greenplum, etc.)
• Proficiency in implementing data security measures, access controls, and design specifically within the Snowflake platform
• Familiarity with prompt engineering techniques.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience or significant familiarity with building and managing AI/ML workloads.
• Experience in the services organization of a product company
• Experience in a leadership position executing technical projects
• Industry vertical expertise (Media, Financial Services, Healthcare, etc)
• Application Development experience
• AWS, Google or Microsoft Cloud certification(s)
• Snowflake Snowpro Advanced Certification(s)

Responsibilities

• Directly engage with customers individually or as part of a technical delivery team
• Oversee and advise on the implementation of the customers Snowflake platform
• Demonstrate technical leadership through personally developed code, solution architectures and implementation recommendations
• Provide customers with standard practices and advise as it relates to AI/ML workloads in Snowflake
• Act as a trusted advisor to customer executive leadership for thought leadership and solution approaches
• Extract business requirements from customers and translate them into a well-architected recommendation
• Develop and provide forward looking guidance and future state roadmaps
• Leverage known best practices and solutions to reduce risk to customer implementations
• Decompose future state goals into actionable execution plans
• Collaborate with Snowflake GTM and product teams to ensure customer alignment to Snowflake goals
• Coach and guide customers on how to best use Snowflake’s suite of AI Tools

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life, and disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan
• flexible spending & health savings account
• at least 12 paid holidays
• paid time off
• parental leave
• employee assistance program
• other company benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees