Principal Solutions Architect - Migrations
US-CO-Denver · Salt Lake City, UT · Los Angeles · 7+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 7+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- US-CO-Denver · Salt Lake City, UT · Los Angeles
About the role
- Snowflake is seeking a Principal Solutions Architect - Migrations to lead and execute complex migrations from legacy systems to the Snowflake platform.
- The role involves collaborating closely with customers and system integrators to understand requirements, design robust migration strategies, and ensure seamless transitions.
- Solutions Architects demonstrate technical leadership by writing code, constructing solution architectures, and guiding customers through decision paths.
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
Requirements
- 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
Preferred qualifications
- 3 years of technical consulting experience
- Experience with non-relational platforms and tools for large-scale data processing (e.g. Hadoop, HBase)
- Familiarity and experience with common BI and data exploration tools (e.g. Power BI, Microstrategy, Business Objects, Tableau)
- Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP, OpenStack, etc.)
- Experience implementing ETL pipelines using custom, packaged tools and software development experience using C/C++, Java etc.
Skills
- SQL
- Python
- Bash
- Shell
- Snowflake
- BigQuery
- Teradata
- Redshift
- Netezza
- SAP HANA
- Greenplum
- Exadata
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- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
