About the Role
Snowflake is seeking AI-native thinkers to power the era of the agentic enterprise. This role involves reinventing how work is done by treating AI as a high-trust collaborator. We are looking for individuals with an experimental mindset who can test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. The Principal Solution Engineer will solve customer's most complex problems in the UK market, working with sales teams and partners to understand customer needs and position Snowflake as the chosen solution.
Responsibilities
- Present Snowflake’s 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
- Create and develop technical champions in your accounts to drive deals and achieve a technical win
- Be at the cutting edge of Snowflake technology and confidently present Snowflake roadmap features and functionality to customers and/or prospects
- Immerse and enable yourself in the ever-evolving industry, maintaining a deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them
- Work closely with other sales engineers to make each other the best and constantly learn from wins and losses
- Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing
- Represent Snowflake at industry or customer events
- Work with our ecosystem and implementation partners to build joint architectures or collaborate on account strategies and initiatives to help our customers be successful
- Proactively contribute and help co-develop Account & territory plans and execute while engaging with the broader internal/external ecosystem.
Requirements
- Experience working with modern data technology (e.g. dbt, spark, containers, devops tooling, orchestration tools, git, etc.)
- Solution engineering/solution architect experience in a Saas environment or relevant industry experience (analytics, data science, data engineering etc)
- Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
- Understanding of and experience with data architecture, data analytics and cloud technology
- Hands on experience with SQL
- Ability to solve customer specific business problems and apply Snowflake’s solutions
- Customer-facing skills to effectively communicate our vision to a wide variety of technical and executive audiences both written and verbal
Skills
- dbt
- spark
- containers
- devops tooling
- orchestration tools
- git
- SQL
- data architecture
- data analytics
- cloud technology
- Python
- AI
- data science
- machine learning technologies
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal
About the Company
- 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.
