Snowflake
Principal Data Platform Architect
$189K–$248K
US-CA-Menlo Park · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of enterprise data architecture and data engineering experience; 5+ years of pre-sales experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred.
About the job
Provides technical leadership on Snowflake data-platform architecture, supporting customer sales cycles through presentations, demonstrations, proof of concepts, and solution design.
What you'll do
- Present Snowflake technology and multi-cloud data architectures to prospects, customers, partners, and executives.
- Demonstrate Snowflake’s value and support proof of concepts, design, and implementation throughout sales cycles.
- Track competitive and complementary technologies and collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of enterprise data architecture and data engineering experience.
- 5+ years of pre-sales experience.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Hands-on experience with data engineering, integration, streaming, and lakehouse technologies, and strong presentation skills.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related fields, or equivalent experience.
Pay
$189,000 – $248,062 (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
SQL, Python, Pandas, Spark, PySpark, Hadoop, Hive, Apache NiFi
AI focus
AI-native work mindset: use AI as a high-trust collaborator and experiment with emerging capabilities to improve how work gets done.
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative