This is a hands-on, individual contributor role with high visibility across the organisation.
The Solution Engineer has the willingness to jump in and do what it takes to make Snowflake and our customers successful. It means keeping up to date on the ever-evolving technologies for data and analytics in order to be an authoritative resource for both Snowflake and customers. They should work collaboratively with a broad range of people, both inside and outside the company.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Present Snowflake technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at prospects and customers
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
Maintain 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
Be an advocate and develop mutual trust with the technical audience on the customer side
Run training sessions, workshops, webinars to help customers become proficient in Snowflake
Keeping customers up to date on key Snowflake product updates and future roadmaps to help them represent Snowflake to their clients about latest technology solutions and benefits
Run technical enablement programs to provide best practices, and solution design workshops to help customers create effective solutions
Create and develop technical champions in your accounts to drive Snowflake adoption
Represent Snowflake at customer or industry events
Forward Strategic thinking - quickly grasp the essence of new concepts and business value messaging. Sharing customer success stories & case studies to showcase the impact of Snowflake
REQUIREMENTS
Minimum 10+ years of experience working in customer facing solution engineering (tech sales) role, preferably with large Global accounts
University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience
Strong competency on modern data stacks, ETL/ELT, data warehouse/lake, data science and data apps
Outstanding skills presenting to both technical and executive audiences, in small groups or at public events, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos.
Hands-on expertise with SQL and Python
Experience working with large global accounts, GSIs and/or Global Capability Centers
Experience with large-scale database technology (e.g. Netezza, Exadata, Teradata, Greenplum, Hadoop etc.)
Pre-sales experience in data related tech products
Sound understanding and experience in the enterprise market and technology ecosystem
Prior industry domain experience with a focus on BFSI is highly desirable.
ADDED BONUS FOR
Data Science/AI/ML experience across a variety of platforms
Familiarity and experience with common BI and data exploration tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, Metabase etc).
Cloud Provider Experience - Amazon AWS/Microsoft Azure/Google Cloud
Data modeling and data architecture experience
Experience selling enterprise SaaS software to Global Accounts
Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.
How do you want to make your impact?
For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com
