Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Within the SaaS ecosystem, Solutions Architect roles sit at the intersection of product capability and real-world adoption. This posting is notable because it is anchored in a data and AI platform context, where architecture choices directly influence customer outcomes, governance, and long-term scalability. The emphasis on advising across developers through executives signals work that spans technical depth and stakeholder alignment, a common pattern in enterprise SaaS implementations.
For a SaaS career, the long-term value here is exposure to end-to-end delivery in a product-led environment: translating requirements into reference architectures, guiding implementation decisions, and shaping roadmaps that reflect platform constraints and best practices. The remit also touches modern SaaS themes such as MLOps, generative AI use cases, and security design, experience that tends to transfer across data infrastructure, analytics, and AI-native software companies.
This role is best suited to professionals who enjoy consultative problem solving alongside hands-on technical leadership, including writing code and prototyping. It will likely fit someone comfortable operating in ambiguity, switching between strategic guidance and implementation detail, and collaborating with go-to-market and product counterparts to keep customer solutions aligned with platform direction.
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.
Snowflake Services Delivery is the implementation and strategy experts for the Snowflake platform. We engage with customers at all phases of the customer journey to optimise, accelerate, and achieve business outcomes. Our teams of Solutions Architects demonstrate technical leadership everyday by writing code, constructing solution architectures and guiding customers through decision paths to achieve impactful outcomes and thoughtfully use AI to augment their business. We advise everyone from developers through senior executives on how best to utilise Snowflake for their data and AI tool suite to make their business successful. Our Solution Architects are comfortable with change and live on the cutting edge of data and AI.
AS A SNOWFLAKE SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT YOU WILL :
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE FOR A SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT WILL HAVE :
BA/BS in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent practical experience
3 years of technical consulting experience
Experience in a lead role for analytics projects for large enterprises
Experience implementing and operating Snowflake centric solutions
Understanding of complete data analytics stack and workflow, from ETL to data platform design to BI and analytics tools
Deep understanding of the complete AI/ML lifecycle, from data preparation and feature engineering to model training, deployment, and ongoing monitoring
Familiarity with AI/ML and Transformation technologies
Hands-on experience with modern MLOps tools and frameworks for deploying, managing, and governing machine learning models at scale
Proven experience with developing generative AI and LLM use cases
Familiarity with industry common BI and ETL solutions
Hands-on experience in a technical role leveraging SQL and Python (optionally Java or Spark) to build, operate and maintain data analytics solutions
Extensive knowledge of and experience with large-scale database technology (e.g. Snowflake, Netezza, Exadata, Teradata, Greenplum, etc.)
Proficiency in implementing data security measures, access controls, and design specifically within the Snowflake platform
Familiarity with prompt engineering techniques
AS A BONUS, A STRONG CANDIDATE WILL ADDITIONALLY HAVE :
Hands-on experience or significant familiaritywith building and managingAI/ML workloads
Minimum 5 years of experience as a solutions architect, data architect, database administrator, or data engineer
Experience in the services organization of a product company
Experience in a leadership position executing technical projects
Application Development experience
AWS, Google or Microsoft Cloud certification(s)
Snowflake Snowpro Advanced Certification(s)
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
