Principal Data Platform Architect

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Principal Data Platform Architect in USA

Snowflake
Full time
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USA
08/19/2026
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Menlo Park, CA

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership in designing and architecting Snowflake’s Cloud Data Platform within enterprise data ecosystems.
Present Snowflake technology and vision to executives, technical contributors, strategic prospects, customers, and partners.
Demonstrate Snowflake technology and communicate its value throughout the sales cycle, from demonstrations and proofs of concept through design and implementation.
Work with sales teams to understand customer needs, navigate sales cycles, support enterprise proofs of concept, and help close business.
Maintain knowledge of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and position Snowflake accordingly.
Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to improve Snowflake products and marketing.

Requirements

10+ years of architecture and data engineering experience in the enterprise data space.
5+ years of experience in a pre-sales environment, such as Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, or Solutions Architect.
Strong presentation skills for technical and executive audiences, including impromptu whiteboarding, presentations, and demonstrations.
Ability to connect customer business problems with Snowflake solutions and conduct deep discovery of customer architecture frameworks.
Broad experience with large-scale database and data warehouse technologies, data integration, analytics, and cloud technologies.
Hands-on development experience with SQL, Python, Pandas, Spark, PySpark, Hadoop, Hive, and other big data technologies.
Experience with data integration tools for building data pipelines, including Apache NiFi, Matillion, Fivetran, Qlik, or Informatica.
Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, and Kinesis.
Experience designing interoperable data lakehouse architectures and working with Iceberg, Delta, and Parquet.
Bachelor’s degree required; a master’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience, is preferred.

Salary: $189k - $248k/yr

Snowflake

**Snowflake is proud to be the Official Data Collaboration Provider for LA28 and Team USA.** Snowflake delivers the AI Data Cloud — a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the AI Data Cloud, organizations unit...

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