Snowflake

Overview

We are seeking a Solutions Architect for Snowflake Frontier Engineering who acts as a critical technical bridge between Snowflake Frontier Engineering and our customers, providing hands-on technical leadership in the presales cycle.

About Snowflake

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work.

Requirements & Eligibility

• 5+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles spanning presales and/or post-sales consulting, solution architecture, or technical advisory
• Experience at the intersection of sales and delivery, supporting deal pursuit while executing technical project work
• Proven track record of designing and proposing enterprise-scale data platform solutions for technical and executive audiences
• Demonstrated experience in Japanese business sales cycles
• Hands-on proficiency in SQL and Python in the context of data analytics, data engineering, or AI/ML solution development
• Deep understanding of at least one major public cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Native Japanese and Business level English capabilities

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical resource supporting Frontier Engineering practice managers and practice directors throughout the service sales cycle
• Lead technical discovery sessions, solution design workshops, architecture reviews, and proofs of concept (PoC)
• Design overall architectures for deliverable solutions based on Snowflake platform capabilities
• Create technical scoping deliverables including solution architecture, effort estimation, resource planning, and risk assessments
• Establish trusted advisor relationships with customer technical stakeholders including Directors, VPs, CTOs, and CDOs