# Technical Architect

**Company**: Snowflake
**Location**: Tokyo
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise.

We seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work.

As a Technical Architect in our Services Delivery team in Japan, you will work with customers to understand their needs and provide technical solutions using Snowflake's data platform.

**Your impact:**

- Act as a technical expert across all aspects of Snowflake.

- Deploy Snowflake according to best practices, including knowledge sharing to ensure customers can effectively use and extend the platform.

- Collaborate with customers to demonstrate and implement Snowflake technology best practices.

- Develop a deep understanding of competing and complementary technologies and vendors, and position Snowflake accordingly.

- Work with system integrators to successfully deploy Snowflake in customer environments.

- Provide guidance and solutions for customers' technical challenges.

- Support team members in developing their expertise and sharing knowledge.

- Collaborate with product management, engineering, and marketing to continuously improve Snowflake's products and marketing.

**Who you are:**

- 5-8 years of experience in post-sales technical customer engagement.

- Ability to understand customer needs and propose and drive project plans.

- Excellent presentation and demo skills for both technical and executive audiences.

- Understanding of the complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design, BI, and analytics tools.

- Design and implementation skills for databases, data warehouses, and data processing.

- Rich experience with SQL and SQL analytics.

- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, and Bash.

- Flexibility and ability to work with customers on-site, with occasional travel required.

- Experience in proposing, implementing, and utilizing AI/ML solutions to solve business challenges.

**Nice to Have:**

- Knowledge of large-scale database technologies such as Redshift, Netezza, Exadata, and Teradata.

- Experience with large-scale data processing tools such as Spark, Hadoop, and HBase.

- Understanding of BI and data exploration tools such as Tableau, Sigma, Qlik, Omni, and Looker.

- Experience with ETL pipelines using custom and packaged tools.

- Experience with designing and building systems using public clouds such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

- Experience with data migration projects.

- Experience with designing and implementing AI/ML on data analytics platforms.

- Experience with proposing and introducing Snowflake Cortex and other AI products.

- Experience with designing PoCs and implementing AI/ML and GenAI use cases.

- Advisory experience with MLOps, governance, monitoring, and security.

- Experience with prompt engineering and LLM robustness and AI-specific risk response.

**Benefits:**

- Free lunch at office

- DC (corporate defined contribution pension plan)

- RSU, ESPP

- Mobile phone and gym fee subsidies

- Paid Parental Leave

- 3-day Summer Vacation and 5-day Year-end Holidays

- Commuting Support

## Skills

### Required
- SQL
- Python
- Ruby
- Perl
- Bash
- ETL
- data platform design
- BI
- analytics tools
- database design
- implementation

### Nice to have
- Redshift
- Netezza
- Exadata
- Teradata
- Spark
- Hadoop
- HBase
- Tableau
- Sigma
- Qlik
- Omni
- Looker
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform

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