Snowflake

Principal Solutions Architect - Migrations

US-CO-Denver. Posted 26 days ago

The role

You will lead and execute complex migrations from legacy systems to the Snowflake platform. You will design migration plans, partner with customers as a technical expert, and collaborate with internal teams to improve products.

What you will do

  • Design comprehensive migration plans and solutions tailored to customer needs
  • Partner with customers as the technical expert for Snowflake during implementation
  • Deploy Snowflake following best practices and ensure knowledge transfer
  • Maintain understanding of competitive and complementary technologies
  • Work with System Integrator consultants to position and deploy Snowflake
  • Create presentations and document project learnings
  • Develop utilities and accelerators to streamline migration
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing

Required qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role
  • Experience migrating from one data platform to another
  • Hands-on experience with data warehouse systems such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Teradata, Redshift, Netezza, SAP HANA, Greenplum, or Exadata
  • End-to-end experience migrating on prem data warehouse solutions to the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Skills presenting to technical and executive audiences
  • Understanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow
  • Extensive hands-on expertise with SQL and scripting languages like Python, Bash, Shell etc.
  • University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience

Nice to have

  • 3 years of technical consulting experience
  • 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. Power BI, Microstrategy, Business Objects, Tableau)
  • Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, OpenStack, etc.)
  • Experience implementing ETL pipelines using custom, packaged tools and software development experience using C/C++, Java etc.

About the company

Snowflake Professional Services is the implementation and strategy experts for the Snowflake platform. They engage with customers to optimize, accelerate, and achieve business outcomes.