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Principal Solutions Architect - Migrations

Snowflake Inc.· Professional Services
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US-CO-Denver, Salt Lake City, UT, Los Angeles, CA$166k - $218.4kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior solutions architect focusing on end-to-end migrations from legacy data platforms to Snowflake, leading migration design, execution, and knowledge transfer while collaborating with customers, system integrators, and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design comprehensive migration plans and solutions tailored to the customer's needs and architecture, ensuring a seamless transition to Snowflake
  • Partner with our customers, acting as the technical expert for all aspects of Snowflake during implementation
  • Deploy Snowflake following best practices, including ensuring knowledge transfer so that customers are properly enabled and are able to extend the capabilities of Snowflake on their own
  • Maintain deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them
  • Work with System Integrator consultants at a deep technical level to successfully position and deploy Snowflake in customer environments
  • Create presentations and document learnings from the project. Develop utilities and accelerators to streamline migration and related activities
  • Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience working with customers in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role, preferably as a solutions architect
  • Experience migrating from one data platform to another and holistically addressing the unique challenges of migrating to a new platform
  • Hands-on experience working with data warehouse systems including or similar to Snowflake, BigQuery, Teradata, Redshift, Netezza, SAP HANA, Greenplum, Exadata, etc.
  • End-to-end experience migrating on prem data warehouse solutions to the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Outstanding skills presenting to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
  • Understanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design to BI and analytics tools
  • Extensive hands-on expertise with SQL and SQL analytics and scripting languages like Python, Bash, Shell etc.
  • University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience

Skills

Required:Migration design and executionSnowflake deploymentTechnical presentation and communicationSQL and analytics scripting
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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