Snowflake is looking for a Data Engineering Specialist to provide leadership in designing and architecting the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform as a critical component of their enterprise data architecture and overall ecosystem, working directly with customers to understand their needs and close business.
Requirements
- 5+ years of architecture and data engineering experience within the Enterprise Data space
- Broad range of experience within large-scale Database and/or Data Warehouse technology, ETL, analytics and cloud technologies. For example, Data Lake, Data Mesh, Data Fabric
- Hands on Development experience with technologies such as SQL, Python, Pandas, Spark, PySpark, Hadoop, Hive and any other Big data technologies
- Must have some prior knowledge of Data Engineering tools for ingestion, transformation and curation
- Familiarity with real-time or near real-time use cases (ex. CDC) and technologies (ex. Kafka, Flink) and deep understanding of integration services and tools for building ETL and ELT data pipelines and its orchestration technologies such as Matillion, Fivetran, Airflow, Informatica, etc..
- Strong architectural expertise in data engineering to confidently present and demo to business executives and technical audiences, and effectively handle any impromptu questions
- Ability to do deep discovery of customer’s architecture framework and connect those with Snowflake Data Architecture.
Responsibilities
- Apply your 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, from demo to proof of concept to design and implementation
- 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
- Leverage your expertise, best practices and reference architectures highlighting Snowflake’s Data Platform capabilities across data ingestion, transformation, and lakehouse workloads.
- Interact with executives and talking shop with technical audiences.
- Provide compelling value-based demonstrations, support enterprise Proof of Concepts, and ultimately close business.
Other
- 5+ years experience within a pre-sales environment (Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, etc…)
- Outstanding presenting skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos.
- Ability to connect a customer’s specific business problems and Snowflake’s solutions
- Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data.
- Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties.
