Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior OLTP Architect role sits at the intersection of modern SaaS data platforms and transactional database expectations, a space many cloud products are actively converging on. With Snowflake positioning Postgres capabilities within its broader Data Cloud, the work reflects a SaaS trend toward unifying analytical and operational workloads under one managed platform, while still meeting enterprise standards for reliability, governance, and performance.
For a SaaS career, the value is in developing platform-level judgment that travels well across cloud vendors and high-scale software companies. The remit spans technical discovery, architecture design, and proof-of-concept execution, which builds fluency in how SaaS products are evaluated, adopted, and operationalised by customers. Experience articulating trade-offs to both engineering leaders and executives also strengthens a core skill set for senior technical roles in SaaS: translating deep systems knowledge into decisions that move adoption forward.
The role best suits a practitioner who enjoys being the technical authority in customer-facing settings and can switch between hands-on database considerations and structured stakeholder communication. It aligns with professionals who want breadth across solution engineering, field architecture, and product-adjacent feedback loops, rather than a purely internal engineering 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
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.
Build the future of the Data Cloud.
Our Solution Engineering organisation is seeking a Data Platform Architect, Postgres, who can provide hands-on expertise and support while working with technical decision makers to design and architect transactional solutions built on the Snowflake Data Cloud.
This is a strategic role that works closely with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and the broader field organisation to ensure successful execution and customer adoption of Snowflake’s solutions.
IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO:
Convey the strategic advantages and technical application of Snowflake Postgres capabilities, address client inquiries, and conduct follow-up engagements to facilitate sales progression.
Articulate Snowflake's Postgres functionalities and provide a comparative analysis with competitor offerings for prospective clients.
Ascertain client-defined success metrics for the adoption and utilisation of Snowflake's Postgres features.
Recognise, address, and reconcile discrepancies between Snowflake's methodologies and client-specific requisites concerning transactional features.
Provide comprehensive resolutions to client objections and concerns.
Develop and deliver bespoke demonstrations that highlight Snowflake's value proposition, tailored to address specific client requirements pertaining to transactional functionalities.
Demonstrate the ability to elucidate Snowflake's security, privacy, and governance considerations with respect to transactional workloads.
Be the technical expert in the room that positions Snowflake’s Postgres features and value to technical stakeholders at Snowflake’s customers across the Americas.
Function as the principal technical authority, articulating Snowflake's transactional functionalities and value proposition to technical stakeholders within customer organisations across the Americas.
Collaborate with Snowflake account teams and customer advocates to define and execute Proof of Concepts, ensuring successful outcomes and demonstrable technical achievements that validate Snowflake's capabilities, including comprehensive executive summaries and business value assessments.
Develop and disseminate content to facilitate team and organisational growth, such as blog articles, conference presentations, and technical materials including notebooks and demonstrations.
ON DAY ONE, WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE:
5+ years Postgres architecture experience
Curiosity and drive to help companies leverage the Snowflake Data Cloud
Strong presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether whiteboarding sessions or formal readouts and demos.
Bachelor’s Degree required, Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred.
Knowledge of and experience with OLTP database technology (e.g. Snowflake, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server etc.)
Knowledge of indexing strategies for transactional workloads.
BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH THE FOLLOWING:
Previous leadership experience
Previous FCTO experience
Practical database migration experience
1+ years of practical Snowflake experience.
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
