Snowflake is looking for people who have a strong background in data engineering and cloud architecture to join their Professional Services team and be the technical seller for exciting new offerings and capabilities for their customers.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years experience working with customers in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role.
- Thorough understanding of the complete Data Engineering life-cycle
- Experience and understanding of at least one public cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Experience with Databricks/Apache Spark
- Hands-on scripting experience with SQL and at least one of the following; Python, Java or Scala.
- Experience with libraries such as Pandas, PyTorch, TensorFlow, SciKit-Learn or similar.
- Experience with Snowflake Snowpark
Responsibilities
- Be a technical expert on all aspects of Snowflake in relation to data engineering workloads.
- Work with Professional Services Practice Directors and Managers on sales pursuits to: Understand customer requirements, Present high level architecture solutions using Snowflake, Scope and present project plans and effort estimates to deliver data engineering solutions
- Consult with customers in sales workshops where needed using SQL, Python, Java and/or Scala to understand their data engineering workload / use case.
- Understand best practices related to Snowflake data engineering capabilities.
- Maintain deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors within the data engineering space, and how to position Snowflake in relation to them
- Understand our partner system relationships in order to properly position them in the scoping and delivery of data engineering use cases.
- Provide guidance on how to resolve customer-specific technical challenges.
Other
- Outstanding skills presenting to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
- University degree in data science, computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience
- 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.
- It is every employee’s duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
