Snowflake is looking for a Solutions Architect to join our Amsterdam office. The role involves working with customers to design and implement data platforms using Snowflake. The ideal candidate has 12+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role and strong consulting skills. The company offers a competitive salary, equity, and benefits including private medical and insurance plans, strong private pension plans, and parental leave.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in a customer-facing technical role
- Strong background in building data platforms
- Strong consulting skills
- Experience with Distributed systems and massively parallel processing technologies
- Data strategies and methodologies such as Data Mesh, Data Vault, Data Fabric, Data Governance, Data Management, Enterprise Architecture
- Data organisation and modeling concepts and techniques such as Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Medallion architecture, Kimball dimensional modeling, and 3NF database normalisation
- Infrastructure concepts such as Cloud Hyperscalers (e.g. AWS and Azure) fundamentals of IaaS, PaaS, Networking, Security, Encryption, Identity and Access Management, and Disaster Recovery Planning
- Data Engineering concepts and frameworks such as batch processing, stream processing, replication, SQL, DBT, Talend, Informatica, Python, Snowpark, PySpark, DataFrames, storage formats (e.g Parquet, Avro, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake), Orchestration and DevOps
- Business Intelligence and analytics solutions such as Tableau, PowerBI, MicroStrategy, Thoughtspot, SAS, Streamlit, and techniques such as time series analysis, Advanced SQL, and statistical analysis (e.g linear regression, variance analysis, modeling, and forecasting)
- AI/ML fundamental understanding of key concepts such as classification, regression, clustering, dimensionality reduction, Natural Language Processing and Language Models
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Equity
- Private medical and insurance plans
- Strong private pension plans
- Parental leave
- Flexible remote work policy
- Annual vacation at the top of the market
- SnowBreaks days
- Adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy or infant care related topics support
