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Snowflake· HQ in Suite 3A, 106 East Babcock Street, Bozeman, MT 59715

Principal Data Platform Architect

Location: US-CA-Menlo Park · Category: Sales & Business Development · Seniority: Lead · Posted: August 18, 2026 · Verified: Oct 8, 2026

Role Overview & Description

This role is a pre-sales data engineering specialist within the Applied Field Engineering team, providing technical leadership for enterprise data architecture design. The specialist will work directly with sales teams to demonstrate Snowflake's capabilities, support proof of concepts, and close business with strategic customers. The position requires 10+ years of architecture and data engineering experience, with 5+ years in a pre-sales environment.
Source & Transparency: This position was structured directly from the publicly accessible career portal of Snowflake. Details on the employer’s original job posting are authoritative. Polaris7 charges no placement fees and conducts no candidate screening.

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Snowflake

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Managed enterprise data cloud for analytics, sharing, AI, and clean rooms.

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