About the Role
Snowflake is seeking an AI-native Data Platform Architect, Postgres, to provide hands-on expertise and support in designing and architecting transactional solutions on the Snowflake Data Cloud. This strategic role collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure successful customer adoption of Snowflake's solutions and redefine the future of work.
Responsibilities
- Convey the strategic advantages and technical application of Snowflake Postgres capabilities, address client inquiries, and conduct follow-up engagements to facilitate sales progression.
- Articulate Snowflake's Postgres functionalities and provide a comparative analysis with competitor offerings for prospective clients.
- Ascertain client-defined success metrics for the adoption and utilisation of Snowflake's Postgres features.
- Recognise, address, and reconcile discrepancies between Snowflake's methodologies and client-specific requisites concerning transactional features.
- Provide comprehensive resolutions to client objections and concerns.
- Develop and deliver bespoke demonstrations that highlight Snowflake's value proposition, tailored to address specific client requirements pertaining to transactional functionalities.
- Demonstrate the ability to elucidate Snowflake's security, privacy, and governance considerations with respect to transactional workloads.
- Be the technical expert in the room that positions Snowflake’s Postgres features and value to technical stakeholders at Snowflake’s customers across the Americas.
- Function as the principal technical authority, articulating Snowflake's transactional functionalities and value proposition to technical stakeholders within customer organisations across the Americas.
- Collaborate with Snowflake account teams and customer advocates to define and execute Proof of Concepts, ensuring successful outcomes and demonstrable technical achievements that validate Snowflake's capabilities, including comprehensive executive summaries and business value assessments.
- Develop and disseminate content to facilitate team and organisational growth, such as blog articles, conference presentations, and technical materials including notebooks and demonstrations.
Requirements
- 5+ years Postgres architecture experience
- Curiosity and drive to help companies leverage the Snowflake Data Cloud
- Strong presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether whiteboarding sessions or formal readouts and demos.
- Knowledge of and experience with OLTP database technology (e.g. Snowflake, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server etc.)
- Knowledge of indexing strategies for transactional workloads.
Skills
- Postgres architecture
- Snowflake Data Cloud
- Presentation skills
- OLTP database technology
- Indexing strategies
Location
- Americas
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred.
About the Company
- Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
- 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.
