Our Sales Engineering organization is seeking a Collaboration Field CTO that can provide leadership in working with both technical and business executives in the design, architecture, and performance of the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform as a strategic asset as a part of their enterprise data architecture.

In this role, you will work directly with Snowflake account teams on best practices around tuning and optimizing architectures that highlight Snowflake's Cloud Data Platform, specifically within Data Sharing, Native Apps, and the Data Marketplace.

As a Collaboration Field CTO, you must share our passion for helping our customers drive faster time to insight through Snowflake's Cloud Data Platform. You must thrive in a dynamic environment and be flexible and willing to jump in and get things done. You are equally comfortable interacting with executives and talking shop with technical audiences in both a business and technical context.

• Apply your multi-cloud data architecture expertise while presenting Snowflake technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at prospects and customers
• Partner with the sales team and channel partners to understand the architecture needs in a pre- and post-sales capacity, provide compelling value-based enterprise architectures, support enterprise Proof of Concepts, and ultimately support data consumption and cost optimization to meet our customers' needs
• Develop specialization in one or more current collaboration trends such as data mesh, data clean rooms, or data marketplaces
• Drive improvements to the team and broader Snowflake sales engineering community and develop internal thought leadership on best practices and prescriptive guidance. Mentor SEs on collaboration topics and best practices.
• Develop a leadership voice externally via speaking at conferences, hosting webinars, publishing blog posts, etc.
• Work with Sales Engineering and customers to demonstrate and communicate implementation best practices on Snowflake technology
• Maintain a deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies to adjust and tune Snowflake parameters and logically explain the impact of these performance variables
• Provide guidance and suggestions on how to resolve customer-specific technical challenges

• 7+ years of Enterprise Architecture experience within the Enterprise Data space
• Expertise with transfer of data from on-prem or hybrid cloud platforms using FTP, API or other federated protocols
• Knowledge of replication or synchronization technologies for legacy and cloud systems
• Knowledge of sharing features of other parts of the data sharing ecosystem such as Databricks, Redshift, BigQuery, or Synapse is optional, but a plus
• Solid expertise in data governance
• Mastery of SQL statements (ideally including Snowflake's powerful SQL extensions)
• Hands-on Experience with Python, Streamlit, Container services
• Broad range of experience within the large-scale database and/or data warehouse technology, ETL, analytics and cloud technologies
• Presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences
• Bachelor's Degree required, Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred

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.

The following represents the expected range of compensation for this role:

• The estimated base salary range for this role is $176,000 - $252,000.
• Additionally, this role is eligible to participate in Snowflake's bonus and equity plan.

The successful candidate's starting salary will be determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location. This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending & health savings account; at least 12 paid holidays; paid time off; parental leave; employee assistance program; and other company benefits.

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.

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