Snowflake Solutions Architect

Summary: The Snowflake Solutions Architect will engage directly with customers to oversee the implementation of their Snowflake platform, providing technical leadership and acting as a trusted advisor. The role requires translating business requirements into actionable recommendations and collaborating with product teams to align customer goals with Snowflake's objectives. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in data architecture and analytics, particularly with Snowflake-centric solutions. This position is contract-based for a duration of 3 months and is remote.

Key Responsibilities:

• Directly engage with customers individually or as part of a technical delivery team
• Oversee and advise on the implementation of the customers Snowflake platform
• Demonstrate technical leadership through personally developed code, solution architectures and implementation recommendations
• Act as a trusted advisor to customer executive leadership for thought leadership and solution approaches
• Extract business requirements from customers and translate them into a well-architected recommendation
• Develop and provide forward looking guidance and future state roadmaps
• Leverage known best practices and solutions to reduce risk to customer implementations
• Decompose future state goals into actionable execution plans
• Collaborate with Snowflake GTM and product teams to ensure customer alignment to Snowflake goals

Key Skills:

• BA/BS in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent practical experience
• 8-11 years of experience as a Solutions Consultant, data architect, database administrator, or data engineer
• 8 years of technical consulting experience
• Experience in a lead role for analytics projects for large enterprises
• Experience implementing and operating Snowflake centric solutions
• Understanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design to BI and analytics tools
• Familiarity with industry common BI and ETL solutions
• Hands-on experience in a technical role leveraging SQL, Python, Java and/or Spark to build, operate and maintain data analytics solutions
• Extensive knowledge of and experience with large-scale database technology (e.g. Snowflake, Netezza, Exadata, Teradata, Greenplum, etc.)
• Proficiency in implementing data security measures, access controls, and design specifically within the Snowflake platform
• ML Feature Store exp a must have
• MLOps model history exp a must have

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT