Principal Solution Engineer - Wealth & Asset Management

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · London, United Kingdom · Solution Engineering

Principal Solution Engineer for Wealth & Asset Management in the UK market. This role involves working with sales teams and partners to understand customer needs, strategize solutions, and demonstrate the value of Snowflake technology throughout the sales cycle. The engineer will present Snowflake's technology and roadmap, conduct hands-on demonstrations, build technical champions, and collaborate with internal teams and partners. The role requires experience with modern data technology, SaaS solution engineering, data architecture, cloud technology, and SQL, with a focus on solving customer business problems using Snowflake's solutions. While AI is mentioned as a collaborator and emerging capability, the core function is solution engineering and sales enablement, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Present Snowflake’s technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at prospects and customers
  2. Work hands-on with prospects and customers to demonstrate and communicate the value of Snowflake technology throughout the sales cycle, from demo to proof of concept to design and implementation
  3. Create and develop technical champions in your accounts to drive deals and achieve a technical win
  4. Be at the cutting edge of Snowflake technology and confidently present Snowflake roadmap features and functionality to customers and/or prospects
  5. Immerse and enable yourself in the ever-evolving industry, maintaining a deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them

Skills

Required

  • Experience working with modern data technology (e.g. dbt, spark, containers, devops tooling, orchestration tools, git, etc.)
  • Solution engineering/solution architect experience in a Saas environment or relevant industry experience (analytics, data science, data engineering etc)
  • Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
  • Understanding of and experience with data architecture, data analytics and cloud technology
  • Hands on experience with SQL
  • Ability to solve customer specific business problems and apply Snowflake’s solutions
  • Customer-facing skills to effectively communicate our vision to a wide variety of technical and executive audiences both written and verbal

Nice to have

  • Experience in the Wealth & Asset Management
  • Hands on experience with Python
  • Experience with AI, data science and machine learning technologies