Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Snowflake sits in the cloud data platform segment of SaaS, where solution engineering functions as the technical bridge between product capability and customer outcomes. This Senior Solution Engineer role is notable because it is anchored in complex, high-stakes evaluations, from demonstrations through proof of concept to implementation design, across the UK market.
For a SaaS career, the work builds durable skills in translating a platform’s features into business value across varied stakeholders, including executives and hands-on technical teams. The remit also signals exposure to how modern SaaS companies win and retain technical buyers: creating internal champions, navigating competitive landscapes, and feeding field learnings back into Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing. That combination is a common pathway toward principal solution engineering, technical pre-sales leadership, or product-facing roles.
The position suits professionals who enjoy customer-facing problem solving and can move between whiteboard-level architecture discussions and practical, hands-on work, including SQL. It also fits someone comfortable partnering closely with sales and external ecosystem partners, while staying current on evolving data and AI-adjacent tooling without relying on a single fixed playbook.
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 are looking for a Senior Solution 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 Solution 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
Proactively contribute and help co-develop Account & territory plans and execute while engaging with the broader internal/external ecosystem.
On day one you we will expect you to have:
Solution 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:
Experience in Insurance
Hands on experience with Python
Experience working with modern data technology (e.g. dbt, spark, containers, devops tooling, orchestration tools, git, etc.)
Experience with AI, data science and machine learning technologies
People want to buy from people who understand them. Our Solution 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
