Principal Data Platform Architect

Highlights

• Lead technical design of Snowflake Cloud Data Platform for enterprise customers.
• Partner with sales to deliver value-based demos and close strategic deals.
• Present Snowflake vision to executives and technical leaders at top prospects.

Ideal candidate

A low-ego, AI-curious data leader who thrives presenting to executives and builders alike and loves turning complex business problems into impactful enterprise architectures.

Requirements

• 10+ years of architecture and data engineering experience in Enterprise Data
• 5+ years experience in pre-sales environment as Sales/Solutions Engineer or Architect
• Outstanding presentation skills to technical and executive audiences
• Ability to connect customer business problems to Snowflake solutions
• Ability to lead deep discovery of customer architecture frameworks
• Broad experience with large-scale database, data warehouse, ETL, analytics and cloud
• Hands-on development experience with SQL, Python, Spark and big data technologies
• Deep understanding of ETL/ELT data integration tools and pipelines
• Familiarity with streaming technologies and real-time use cases like CDC
• Experience designing interoperable lakehouse architectures with Iceberg, Delta, Parquet
• Bachelor's degree required, Master's in technical field preferred