Principal Solutions Architect - Migrations

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don't just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset - who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake Professional Services is the implementation and strategy experts for the Snowflake platform. We engage with customers at all phases of the customer journey to optimize, accelerate, and achieve business outcomes. Our teams of Solutions Architects demonstrate technical leadership everyday by writing code, constructing solution architectures, and guiding customers through decision paths to achieve impactful outcomes. We advise everyone from developers through senior executives on how best to utilize Snowflake to make their business successful. Our Solution Architects are comfortable with change and live on the cutting edge of technology. In this role, you will lead and execute complex migrations from legacy systems to the Snowflake platform. You will collaborate closely with customers and system integrators to understand their requirements, design robust migration strategies, and ensure seamless transitions with minimal disruption. Additionally, you will work with a diverse range of teams both inside and outside the company. 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 MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: * 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... For full info follow application link. Snowflake is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orienta tion, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.