Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Solutions Architect role sits at a common inflection point in enterprise SaaS adoption: moving mission critical data workloads from legacy platforms into a cloud data platform. With Snowflake positioned as a central layer in modern analytics stacks, migration work tends to touch security, performance, governance, and downstream BI usage, not just initial setup. The Tokyo base and bilingual scope also signal customer environments where stakeholder alignment and precision in delivery matter as much as technical depth.
From a SaaS career perspective, migration focused service delivery builds durable expertise in implementation patterns that repeat across accounts and industries. The remit spans hands-on deployment, methodology development, and customer enablement, which mirrors how leading SaaS vendors scale outcomes beyond one-off projects. Exposure to adjacent technologies and competitive positioning also strengthens product fluency that transfers into solution engineering, technical account leadership, or platform architecture roles.
This role is best suited to practitioners who like being close to real production constraints and who can translate between executive goals and technical tradeoffs. It will fit someone comfortable owning ambiguous customer problems end to end, collaborating with system integrators, and maintaining broad knowledge across the data and analytics toolchain while staying practical in delivery.
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
At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.
We are looking for a Solutions Architect to be part of our Service Delivery (SD) team to deploy cloud products and services for our customers. This person must be a hands-on, self-starter who loves solving innovative problems in a fast-paced, agile environment. The ideal candidate will have the insight to connect a specific business problem and Snowflake’s solution and communicate that connection and vision to various technical and executive audiences.
The person we’re looking for shares our passion about reinventing the data platform and thrives in the dynamic environment. That means having the flexibility and willingness to jump in and get done what needs to be done to make Snowflake and our customers successful. It means keeping up to date on the ever-evolving technologies for data and analytics in order to be an authoritative resource for Snowflake, System Integrators and customers. And it means working collaboratively with a broad range of people both inside and outside the company.
AS A SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:
Be a technical expert on all aspects of Snowflake
Guide customers through the process of migrating to Snowflake and develop methodologies to improve the migration process
Deploy Snowflake following best practices, including ensuring knowledge transfer so that customers are properly enabled and are able to extend the capabilities of Snowflake on their own
Work hands-on with customers to demonstrate and communicate implementation best practices on Snowflake technology
Maintain deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them
Work with System Integrator consultants at a deep technical level to successfully position and deploy Snowflake in customer environments
Provide guidance on how to resolve customer-specific technical challenges
Support other members of the SD team develop their expertise
Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing.
OUR IDEAL SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT WILL HAVE:
Minimum 10 years of experience working with customers in a pre-sales or post-sales technical role
Experience migrating from one data platform to another and holistically addressing the unique challenges of migrating to a new platform
University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience
Outstanding skills presenting to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
Understanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design to BI and analytics tools
Strong skills in databases, data warehouses, and data processing
Extensive hands-on expertise with SQL and SQL analytics
Experience and track record of success selling data and/or analytics software to enterprise customers; includes proven skills identifying key stakeholders, winning value propositions, and compelling events
Extensive knowledge of and experience with large-scale database technology (e.g. Netezza, Exadata, Teradata, Greenplum, etc.)
Software development experience with C/C++ or Java.Scripting experience with Python, Ruby, Perl, Bash.
Ability and flexibility to travel to work with customers on-site
Fluent Japanese and English
BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:
Experience with non-relational platforms and tools for large-scale data processing (e.g. Hadoop, HBase)
Familiarity and experience with common BI and data exploration tools (e.g. Microstrategy, Business Objects, Tableau)
Experience and understanding of large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, etc.)
Experience implementing ETL pipelines using custom and packaged tools
Experience using AWS services such as S3, Kinesis, Elastic MapReduce, Data pipeline
Experience selling enterprise SaaS software
Proven success at enterprise software
WHY JOIN OUR SERVICE DELIVERY TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?
Unique opportunity to work on a truly disruptive software product
Get unique, hands-on experience with bleeding edge data warehouse technology
Develop, lead and execute an industry-changing initiative
Learn from the best! Join a dedicated, experienced team of professionals.
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
