Snowflake Field CTO

Job Description

You’re joining our growing Snowflake practice across multiple industries where you have a unique opportunity to be part of our practice and solutions team to drive the pre-sales motion along with helping our customers to be strategic advisors and design their AI Data Cloud architecture using Snowflake technology stack as part of your delivery responsibilities on the engagement.

You’ll be helping in Go-to-Market (GTM) motion in conducting the customer workshops, hands-on labs with Snowflake sales teams and also driving pre-sales efforts to win more Snowflake opportunities, working with internal practice and solutions team in designing relevant solutions and accelerators that we can leverage for our customers in faster time to value.

What You’ll Own

• Platform Architecture & Decisions, Pre-sales efforts
  • Define and validate the technical blueprint across cloud data warehouse, clean room infrastructure, embedding compute, and AI architecture.
  • Design Data and AI architecture with best practices recommendations leveraging Snowflake technology stack.
  • For pre-sales and solutioning efforts, you will be recommending the solution approach, prepare high level effort estimates and lead presentations to the client stakeholders.
• Technical Leadership & Unblocking
  • Identify and resolve critical path blockers across infrastructure, data architecture and integrations, and identity resolution as a Snowflake technical thought leader.
  • Pressure-test technical proposals against real-world scale and operational complexity.
  • Bridge between Blend’s engineering and data science teams and the client’s senior technical stakeholders as a Snowflake technical subject matter expert and chief architect.
• Executive Presence & GTM Alignment
  • Drive GTM initiatives working with the Practices and Solution team.
  • Participate in regular leadership touchpoints within Blend, Snowflake team as well with client leadership as required.
  • As a leader, you will creatively think where there is a gap and opportunity to drive more value for our customers using Snowflake solutions, translating technical capabilities into commercially relevant differentiation.
  • Serve as a credible technical voice in early client and partner conversations.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in data or platform architecture, with at least 3 years on systems at significant scale
• Deep experience with Snowflake and AWS (or other) cloud service providers, or a comparable enterprise data platform
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical strategy in high-stakes client or executive contexts
• Background in consulting delivery or embedded partner roles
• Migration or Modernization expertise in Snowflake
• Building Data Mesh architecture with data sharing capabilities of Snowflake
• You have worked with Snowflake sales and solutions team

Nice to Have

• Clean room or federated data architecture experience or feature store work
• Identity resolution or data monetization projects
• AWS or cloud infrastructure design
• Snowflake certification

Additional Information

The starting pay range for this role is $250,000 - $300,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent on several factors including but not limited to relevant experience, skills, certifications, training, and location.

BLEND360 offers a competitive benefits program designed to support the health and financial well-being of our team members and their families. Benefits vary by role and eligibility and may include medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, paid holidays, commuter benefits, flexible spending accounts, life and disability insurance, and employee assistance programs.