Build the future of the AI Data Cloud. Join the Snowflake team.
The Senior Solutions Architect for the professional services team will be responsible for driving customer enablement and adoption. The Solutions Architect is a technical resource that provides technical guidance and expertise on the use of the Snowflake service.
This role is a unique opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way to high visibility, high impact projects at a very exciting time for the company. Snowflake is an innovative, high-growth, customer-focused company in a large and growing market. If you are an energetic, self-managed professional with experience managing complex customer communities and possess excellent presentation and listening skills, organization and contact management capabilities, we’d love to hear from you.
May be named to several Snowflake customers
Lead technical pieces of client data warehouse 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 Product Management, Engineering, Sales, Sales Engineering, and Professional Services teams
Help clients troubleshoot the implementation of the product within their systems
Identify, document, triage and track issues to ensure resolution
Work with Product Management and Support as necessary when a scoped implementation or product feature cannot be implemented or does not meet the client’s needs
Play an active role contributing 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 IDEAL SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT WILL INCLUDE:12+ years of experience in a customer facing technical role
Strong database and data warehouse experience, including recent experience writing and tuning complex SQL queries
Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack)
Experience implementing ETL pipelines using custom and packaged tools
Experience using AWS services such as S3, Kinesis, Elastic MapReduce, Data Pipeline
Presence: enthusiastic and high energy, but also poised, confident and extremely professional
Innovative and assertive, with the ability to pick up new technologies and assess situations quickly
Exercises listening, takes time to truly understand client needs and address them
Track record of delivering results in a dynamic enterprise or start-up environment
Experience working cross functionally with teams such as Support and Engineering
Strong sense of ownership and high attention to detail
Creative and analytical problem-solving skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work on several projects simultaneously and meet stated quality objectives
Fluent in French language - written & spoken
BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:Experience with non-relational platforms and tools for large-scale data processing (e.g. Hadoop, HBase)
Familiarity and experience with common BI and data exploration tools (e.g. Microstrategy, Business Objects, Tableau); it is not expected you will be an expert with any integrated upstream or downstream tools used to access data in Snowflake
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
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