Principal Data Platform Architect - Data Engineering, Applied Field Engineering
SnowflakeColorado, United States
Posted May 20, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Snowflake is a company that is powering the era of the agentic enterprise, and is seeking AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work.
Job Description
At Snowflake, we seek a Principal Data Platform Architect with Data Engineering expertise to provide technical leadership in the design and architecture of the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform for customers, and work directly with the sales team to understand customer needs and strategize on how to navigate winning sales cycles.
Requirements
- 10+ years of architecture and data engineering experience within the Enterprise Data space
- 5+ years experience within a pre-sales environment (Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, etc...)
- Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences
- Ability to connect a customer's specific business problems and Snowflake's solutions
- Hands on Development experience with technologies such as SQL, Python, Pandas, Spark, PySpark, Hadoop, Hive and any other Big data technologies
- Deep understanding of data integration services and tools for building ETL and ELT data pipelines
- Experience designing interoperable data lakehouse architectures and experience working with Iceberg, Delta, and Parquet
- Bachelor's Degree required, Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred
Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship