Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Solution Engineer role sits at the intersection of modern data infrastructure SaaS and enterprise adoption, where technical credibility directly influences how large customers evaluate platforms. Snowflake’s positioning as a cloud data platform makes the work inherently ecosystem-facing, requiring fluency across data warehousing, ELT, analytics, security, and performance rather than a single product surface area. The focus on Global Capability Centers and large accounts also signals a remit shaped by complex stakeholder environments and multi-team rollouts.
For a SaaS career, the role builds durable pre-sales and solution architecture muscles that transfer across high-consideration B2B products: framing business problems into technical narratives, running demos and proofs of concept, and translating field feedback into product and marketing improvements. Exposure to competitive positioning and to evolving data and AI tooling is particularly relevant in SaaS categories where differentiation depends on architecture choices and time-to-value.
This is best suited to professionals who prefer hands-on customer work alongside internal cross-functional collaboration, and who enjoy moving between executive-level storytelling and deep technical validation. It will fit someone comfortable owning outcomes as an individual contributor and maintaining breadth across the modern data stack while developing domain depth in enterprise contexts such as BFSI.
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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 world-class Solution Engineers to join our Global field teams whose technical skills and customer savvy will help customers understand and utilise the value of the cutting-edge data platform that we are building. They must share our passion about reinventing the data platform and thrive in a dynamic environment.
The Solution Engineer will work hand-in-hand with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Marketing. In this role you will work directly with the account sales team on a handful of global accounts with GCCs in India to accelerate their Snowflake journey. The Solution Engineer will be responsible for providing the technical expertise to make Snowflake customers successful in driving existing projects and uncover new use cases. This data architect will have a broad range of skills and experience ranging from data architecture to ETL/ELT, data science, security, performance analysis, analytics, etc. He/she will have the insight to make the connection between a customer’s specific business problems and Snowflake’s solution, the customer-facing skills to communicate that connection and vision to a wide variety of technical and executive audiences, and the technical skills to be able to not only build demos and execute proof-of-concepts but also to provide consultative assistance on architecture and implementation.
This is a hands-on, individual contributor role with high visibility across the organisation.
The Solution Engineer has the willingness to jump in and do what it takes 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 both Snowflake and customers. They should work collaboratively with a broad range of people, both inside and outside the company.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Present Snowflake 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
Maintain a deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and how to position Snowflake in relation to them
Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing to continuously improve Snowflake’s products and marketing
Be an advocate and develop mutual trust with the technical audience on the customer side
Run training sessions, workshops, webinars to help customers become proficient in Snowflake
Keeping customers up to date on key Snowflake product updates and future roadmaps to help them represent Snowflake to their clients about latest technology solutions and benefits
Run technical enablement programs to provide best practices, and solution design workshops to help customers create effective solutions
Create and develop technical champions in your accounts to drive Snowflake adoption
Represent Snowflake at customer or industry events
Forward Strategic thinking - quickly grasp the essence of new concepts and business value messaging. Sharing customer success stories & case studies to showcase the impact of Snowflake
REQUIREMENTS:
Minimum 8+ years of experience working in customer facing solution engineering (tech sales) role, preferably with large Global accounts
University degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience
Strong competency on modern data stacks, ETL/ELT, data warehouse/lake, data science and data apps
Outstanding skills presenting to both technical and executive audiences, in small groups or at public events, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos.
Hands-on expertise with SQL and Python
Experience working with large global accounts, GSIs and/or Global Capability Centers
Industry experience in either BFSI, Manufacturing, Technology or HCLS domains
Experience with large-scale database technology (e.g. Netezza, Exadata, Teradata, Greenplum, Hadoop etc.)
Pre-sales experience in data related tech products
Sound understanding and experience in the enterprise market and technology ecosystem
Prior industry domain experience with a focus on BFSI is highly desirable.
ADDED BONUS FOR:
Data Science/AI/ML experience across a variety of platforms
Familiarity and experience with common BI and data exploration tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, Metabase etc).
Cloud Provider Experience - Amazon AWS/Microsoft Azure/Google Cloud
Data modeling and data architecture experience
Experience selling enterprise SaaS software to Global Accounts
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
