# Principal Data Platform Architect

**Company**: Snowflake
**Location**: Menlo Park, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $189,000 - $248,062
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Snowflake's Solution Engineering organization is seeking a Data Engineering Specialist to join the Applied Field Engineering team. The successful candidate will provide technical leadership in working with both technical and business executives in the design and architecture of the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform as a critical component of their enterprise data architecture and overall ecosystem.

In this role, you will work directly with the sales team to understand the needs of customers, strategize on how to navigate winning sales cycles, provide compelling value-based demonstrations, support enterprise Proof of Concepts, and ultimately close business. You will leverage expertise, best practices, and reference architectures highlighting Snowflake's Data Platform capabilities across data ingestion, transformation, and lakehouse workloads.

Key responsibilities:

- Apply multi-cloud data architecture expertise while presenting Snowflake technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at strategic prospects, customers, and partners

- Work hands-on with prospects and customers to demonstrate and communicate the value of Snowflake technology throughout the sales cycle

- Immerse yourself in the ever-evolving industry, maintaining a deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them

- Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake's products and marketing

Requirements:

- 10+ years of architecture and data engineering experience within the Enterprise Data space

- 5+ years of experience within a pre-sales environment

- Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences

- Ability to connect a customer's specific business problems and Snowflake's solutions

- Ability to do deep discovery of customer's architecture framework and connect those with Snowflake Data Architecture

- Broad range of experience within large-scale Database and/or Data Warehouse technology, ETL, analytics, and cloud technologies

- Hands-on development experience with technologies such as SQL, Python, Pandas, Spark, PySpark, Hadoop, Hive, and other Big Data technologies

- Deep understanding of data integration services and tools for building ETL and ELT data pipelines

- Familiarity with streaming technologies and real-time or near real-time use cases

- Experience designing interoperable data lakehouse architectures and experience working with Iceberg, Delta, and Parquet

- Strong architectural expertise in data engineering to confidently present and demo to business executives and technical audiences

Benefits:

- Compensation Range: $189,000 - $248,062

## Skills

### Required
- multi-cloud data architecture
- data engineering
- Snowflake Cloud Data Platform
- SQL
- Python
- Pandas
- Spark
- PySpark
- Hadoop
- Hive
- Big Data technologies
- data integration services
- ETL and ELT data pipelines
- streaming technologies
- real-time or near real-time use cases
- data lakehouse architectures
- Iceberg
- Delta
- Parquet

### Nice to have
- Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields

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