Senior Solution Engineer, Sled

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · NC, United States · Remote · Solution Engineering

This role is for a Senior Solution Engineer at Snowflake, focusing on the SLED (State, Local, and Education) sector. The primary responsibility is to work with sales teams and partners to understand customer needs, provide compelling demonstrations, support Proof of Concepts, and close deals. While the role emphasizes AI as a collaborator and requires leveraging AI code generation tools, the core function is pre-sales engineering and customer problem-solving within the data warehousing and cloud technologies space, not direct AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Present Snowflake 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. Immerse 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.
  4. Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing

Skills

Required

  • 7-8 years of industry experience
  • minimum of 5 years within a pre-sales environment
  • Outstanding presenting skills to both technical and executive audiences
  • Broad range of experience within large-scale Database and/or Data Warehouse technology, ETL, analytics and cloud technologies
  • Hands-on expertise with SQL, SQL analytics, and Python
  • Federal PubSec industry experience
  • Ability to connect a customer’s specific business problems and Snowflake’s solutions
  • Ability to do deep discovery of customer’s architecture framework and connect those with Snowflake Data Architecture
  • Proactive curiosity for the AI landscape
  • Proven ability to leverage AI code generation tools to accelerate productivity and efficiency

Nice to have

  • Masters in DataScience or Business Administration
  • Experience with GSIs (EY, Deloitte, Accenture, etc)

What the JD emphasized

  • Federal PubSec industry experience