Senior Solution Engineer

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · Tokyo, Japan · Solution Engineering

Snowflake is seeking experienced Senior Solution Engineers to join their Agentic Enterprise initiative. This role involves collaborating with sales teams and partners to understand customer needs, plan sales cycles, deliver value-based demonstrations, support Proofs of Concepts (PoCs), and drive deal closures. The engineer will present Snowflake's technology and vision to executives and technical stakeholders, demonstrate value through demos and PoCs, understand the competitive landscape, and work with product, engineering, and marketing teams to improve products and marketing efforts. The role requires strong presentation skills, broad experience in data warehousing, ETL, analytics, and cloud technologies, SQL proficiency, and the ability to connect customer business challenges with Snowflake solutions. Fluency in both Japanese and English is required.

What you'd actually do

  1. 見込み客やお客様のエグゼクティブやIT技術者にSnowflakeのテクノロジーやビジョンのプレゼンテーションを実施
  2. 見込み客やお客様に対してデモやPoCなどの方法で営業サイクル全体を通してSnowflakeテクノロジーの価値を実証
  3. 進化し続ける業界に身を置き、競合他社や関連する技術やベンダーを理解し、Snowflakeをどのようにポジショニングするかの理解
  4. 製品管理、エンジニアリング、マーケティングと協力して、Snowflakeの製品改善やマーケティング活動を実施

Skills

Required

  • 7-8 years of industry experience
  • 3+ years of experience in a pre-sales environment
  • Presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences
  • Whiteboard impromptu presentations and demos
  • Broad experience in large-scale databases, data warehousing technologies, ETL, analytics, and cloud technologies
  • Hands-on knowledge of SQL and SQL analytics
  • Ability to connect customer's specific business challenges with Snowflake solutions
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • Fluent in Japanese and English

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native thinkers
  • AI as a high-trust collaborator
  • reinvent how they work
  • accelerate your impact
  • test emerging capabilities
  • simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results
  • redefine the future of how work gets done
  • agentic enterprise