Data Platform Architect - Applied Field Engineering
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Data Platform Architect - Applied Field Engineering at Snowflake is a forward deployed cloud data warehouse role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
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This Forward Deployed Engineer role centers on embedded customer delivery — discovery, prototyping, integration, and production rollout. Key signals from the listing: Kubernetes / containers, AWS, Azure, GCP.
About Snowflake
Snowflake field engineers drive warehouse migrations and analytics modernization with enterprise buyers. The role is anchored in US-WA-Remote, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Signals in the listing
Stand out for Data Platform Architect - Applied Field Engineering
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Data Platform Architect - Applied Field Engineering to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Snowflake hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Prepare a 5-minute “week one on site” plan: who you would meet, what you would inspect in their stack, and what artifact you would deliver by day five.
- Show you can go from discovery notes → working integration → production checklist without needing a large internal team.
- For Kubernetes-heavy roles, describe a cluster you operated: upgrades, networking, secrets, observability, and how you debugged a production outage.
- The posting mentions multiple languages — pick the one most relevant to this team and show production code, not tutorial exercises.
- This role is tied to US-WA-Remote — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Snowflake
- Demonstrate SQL/ELT patterns with a concrete example — Snowflake will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate cost governance with a concrete example — Snowflake will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Proof of running a successful migration or cost-optimization project beats generic cloud buzzwords.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on snowflake.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
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. Our Solution Engineering organization is seeking an Application Architect who can provide hands-on expertise and support while working with technical decision makers to design and architect analytical solutions built on the Snowflake Data Cloud. This is a strategic role that works closely with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and the broader field organization to ensure successful execution and customer adoption of Snowflake’s solutions.
In This Role You Will Get To:
- Convey the strategic advantages and technical application of Snowflake's capabilities for Applications, address client inquiries, and conduct follow-up engagements to facilitate sales progression.
- Articulate Snowflake's Application functionalities and provide a comparative analysis with competitor offerings for prospective clients.
- Ascertain client-defined success metrics for the adoption and utilization of Snowflake's Application features.
- Recognize, address, and reconcile discrepancies between Snowflake's methodologies and client-specific requisites concerning Application features.
- Provide comprehensive resolutions to client objections and concerns.
- Develop and deliver bespoke demonstrations that highlight Snowflake's value proposition, tailored to address specific client
requirements pertaining to application functionalities.
- Demonstrate the ability to elucidate Snowflake's security, privacy, and governance considerations with respect to Applications.
- Be the technical expert in the room that positions Snowflake’s application features and value to technical stakeholders at Snowflake’s customers across the Americas.
- Partner with Snowflake account teams and customer champions to scope and drive POCs to success and technical wins that prove the value of Snowflake’s capabilities, including executive readouts and business value cases.
- Publish content that helps the team and company scale beyond your individual efforts, like blog posts, presentations at conferences, or technical collateral like notebooks and demos.
- Function as the principal technical authority, articulating Snowflake's application functionalities and value proposition to technical stakeholders within customer organizations across the Americas.
On Day One, We Will Expect You To Have:
- 5+ years Data intensive Application architecture experience
- 5+ years of SQL and SQL data modeling
- Strong presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether whiteboarding sessions or formal readouts and demos.
- Bachelor’s Degree required, Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred.
- Knowledge of and experience with Kubernetes or Docker
- Familiar with architecting on cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- 3+ years of Python programming experience
Bonus Points For Experience With The Following:
- AWS Solution Architect Associate or similar
- Other programing languages experience (Java, JavaScript)
- Agentic applications and tools
- Streamlit
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. 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. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com http://careers.snowflake.com