Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Snowflake sits in the cloud data platform segment of SaaS, where adoption is often driven by technical validation as much as commercial alignment. A Commercial Solutions Engineer role in the UK market is notable because it operates at the intersection of modern data architecture, executive stakeholder communication, and partner ecosystems—common buying dynamics for enterprise SaaS in analytics and infrastructure.
For a long-term SaaS career, this position builds durable “technical-to-business translation” capability: shaping demos, running proofs of concept, and guiding solution design through a sales cycle. The remit also signals exposure to competitive positioning and roadmap conversations, plus cross-functional feedback loops with Product, Engineering, and Marketing—experience that tends to transfer well across platform SaaS companies where field learnings inform packaging and product direction.
This role is best suited to professionals who enjoy customer-facing problem solving and can move comfortably between SQL-level details and boardroom narratives. It will fit someone who prefers collaborative deal work with sales teams and partners, and who is motivated by continuous learning in an evolving cloud tooling landscape rather than a purely delivery-focused implementation track.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level.
We are looking for a Commercial Solutions Engineer for the UK market who can solve our customer’s most complex problems. In this role you will work directly with the account sales team and channel partners to understand the needs of our customers, strategize on how to best support them in their evaluation and ultimately help our customers choose Snowflake as their solution.
As a Snowflake Commercial Solutions Engineer you share our passion for solving complex data challenges and helping organizations to get the most out of their data assets. Our technical landscape is ever evolving and you are keen to learn new skills and put them into practice on real world challenges. You are able to translate features and functions into solutions that solve business problems, in conversations with technical or business teams, with end users or executives.
In this role you will get to:
Present Snowflake’s technology and vision to executives and technical contributors at prospects and customers
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
Create and develop technical champions in your accounts to drive deals and achieve a technical win
Be at the cutting edge of Snowflake technology and confidently present Snowflake roadmap features and functionality to customers and/or prospects
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
Work closely with other sales engineers to make each other the best and constantly learn from wins and losses
Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing
Represent Snowflake at industry or customer events
Work with our ecosystem and implementation partners to build joint architectures or collaborate on account strategies and initiatives to help our customers be successful
On day one we will expect you to have:
Sales 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
Preferred (but not required) to have:
Hands on experience with Python
Experience working with modern data technology (e.g. dbt, spark, containers, devops tooling, orchestration tools, git, etc.)
Experience with data science and machine learning technology
People want to buy from people who understand them. Our Solutions Engineers build connections, relationships and trust with our customers that last. We love to learn, are open to giving and receiving feedback and are passionate about making our customers and each other successful.
Think you have what it takes but not sure that you tick every box above? Apply anyways! We value the broad range of experience our teams bring to the table and believe our customers are more successful because of it.
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
