The Solutions Architect will engage directly with customers to implement and optimize the Snowflake platform. Responsibilities include providing technical leadership, overseeing implementations, translating business requirements into solutions, and developing future state roadmaps while leveraging best practices and collaborating with various teams.
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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. 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.
AS A SNOWFLAKE SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, YOU WILL :
- 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
- 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
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE FOR A SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT WILL HAVE :
- 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 industry common BI and ETL solutions
- Hands-on experience in a technical role leveraging SQL, Python, Java and/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
AS A BONUS A STRONG CANDIDATE WILL ADDITIONALLY HAVE :
- 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)
Top Skills
Java
Python
Spark
SQL
Snowflake Toronto, Ontario, CAN Office
16 York Street, 31st and 32nd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5J 2Z2
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