About the Role
Senior Solution Engineer is a strategic technical leader responsible for managing existing enterprise clients in Korea, focusing on the Manufacturing and Hi-Tech industries. This role involves close collaboration with Account Executives to increase Snowflake adoption, expand workloads, and grow business across various lines of business. You will serve as a trusted advisor to technical and business decision-makers, guiding them to leverage Snowflake as a core platform for their data, analytics, and AI strategies. This customer-first, field-facing position requires deep technical expertise, industry understanding, and the ability to design and effectively communicate impactful architectures.
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead technical expansion strategies for the Snowflake customer portfolio in Korea.
- Identify customer business objectives and connect them to workloads, use cases, and lines of business achievable through Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
- Design and deliver optimized demos and technical stories for customer architectures and use cases.
- Lead POCs and pilot projects to validate platform adoption value and minimize decision-making risk, including defining success criteria and co-creating execution plans.
- Translate complex technical features into clear business value and ROI for non-technical executives.
- Collaborate closely with Sales, Customer Success, Professional Services, Product, and Partner organizations to support customer success.
- Partner with System Integrators (SI), Independent Software Vendors (ISV), and cloud partners to integrate solutions suitable for customer architectures.
- Relay customer feedback from the field to Product and Engineering organizations to ensure manufacturing and Hi-Tech industry requirements are reflected in the product roadmap.
- Represent Snowflake at customer workshops, executive briefings, industry events, and community gatherings.
- Create and share technical content, including presentations, reference architectures, playbooks, and demos, to support market expansion in the manufacturing and Hi-Tech sectors.
Requirements
- Over 10 years of experience in customer-facing solution engineering.
- Deep understanding of the Modern Data Stack, ETL/ELT, data warehousing and data lakes, data science, Generative AI, and Data Apps.
- Ability to effectively communicate and present to both technical and executive audiences, from impromptu whiteboard sessions to structured presentations and demos.
- Hands-on proficiency in SQL and Spark.
- Business Level English speaking, reading, and writing required.
Skills
- Solution Design
- Demos
- Proof of Concepts (POCs)
- Technical Storytelling
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner Collaboration
- Thought Leadership
- Evangelism
- SQL
- Spark
- Data Architecture
- Data Warehousing
- Data Lakes
- Data Science
- Generative AI
- Data Apps
- Stakeholder Management
- Value-Based Selling
Location
- Korea
Work Type
- Field-Facing
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field (preferred)
- Lakehouse architecture practical experience (added bonus)
- Data science, AI, machine learning (ML), generative AI project experience (added bonus)
- BI tool experience (Tableau, Power BI) (added bonus)
- Cloud platform experience (AWS, Azure, GCP) (added bonus)
- Experience with related services (S3, Glue, SageMaker, Azure Data Factory) (added bonus)
- OLAP data modeling and enterprise data architecture experience (added bonus)
- Manufacturing and Hi-Tech industry experience (added bonus)
- Enterprise SaaS solution sales experience (added bonus)
About the Company
- Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
- We are looking for AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work.
- We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset.
- 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.
