SOLUTION INNOVATION - Platform Specialist

We are seeking a talented Platform Specialist to join our Solution Innovation team. This role is dedicated to curating and maintaining critical demos for Snowflake SE and Product organizations. You’ll be instrumental in evolving flagship demos and creating custom demonstrations using all areas of the Snowflake platform ensuring the timely release of cutting-edge solutions.

As part of the Solution Innovation Team in the Sales Engineering organization you will collaborate with internal teams including Product Sales and the FCTO organizations to ensure the effective delivery of innovative technical assets. This role combines demo design hands-on development platform engineering and strategic advisory work. Staying current with the rapid pace of change in the platform landscape is crucial to effectively leverage new advancements.

AS A SOLUTION INNOVATION - PLATFORM SPECIALIST YOU WILL:

• Design and build demos using the Snowflake platform.

• Collaborate closely with the Product team to align demo creation with product releases ensuring timely delivery of functional demos that showcase new features.

• Provide technical expertise on all aspects of Snowflake in relation to the platform suite of features to sales engineering teams.

• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in Snowflake and emerging technologies.

• Provide thought leadership through external content such as webinars event presentations and blog posts.

• Create and maintain related technical enablement assets - demo setup scripts execution scripts setup and integration guides technical videos readme files and documentation.

• Demonstrate advanced SQL skills including complex query optimization performance tuning and advanced SQL functions.

• Develop and implement data engineering solutions ensuring data pipelines are efficient scalable and maintainable.

OUR IDEAL SOLUTION INNOVATION ARCHITECT WILL HAVE:

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in technology consulting and/or sales engineering designing developing and implementing technical solutions.

• Deep Snowflake expertise with experience in Snowflake implementations best practices and complex topics and design patterns.

• Ability to work within cross-functional teams communicating effectively between business and technical stakeholders.

• Direct experience working in the SaaS space. Proficiency in Data Warehousing Cloud Analytics and Business Intelligence is required.

• Organized and able to manage and deliver multiple tasks efficiently effectively and on time in a metrics-based organization.

• Excellent technical writing editing and oral communication skills.

• Expertise in SQL including complex query writing optimization and performance tuning.

• Experience in data engineering developing robust data pipelines and ensuring seamless data transformations.

• Knowledge of data lake architectures

• Hands-on scripting experience with Python

• Outstanding skills presenting to both technical and executive audiences whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos.

BONUS POINTS FOR HAVING:

• Experience with GenerativeAI LLMs and Vector Databases.

• Experience with Databricks/Apache Spark.

• Vertical expertise in a core vertical such as FSI Retail Manufacturing etc.

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.