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About SHI International
SHI International is a global IT solutions provider and Value-Added Reseller (VAR) that helps corporate, enterprise, and public sector customers manage, procure, and secure hardware, software, and cloud services.
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JOB TITLE: Principal Architect - Snowflake
The Principal Architect - Snowflake joins the Data and AI practice as a senior individual contributor to lead the technical side of Snowflake pursuits. This role involves leading technical discovery with customer architects, designing target platforms, and owning the technical win for enterprise migrations. You will build and maintain technical relationships, provide architectural oversight throughout delivery, and define Snowflake service offerings. Key responsibilities include migrating enterprises from SAP, Oracle, Teradata, and SQL Server onto Snowflake. Required expertise includes platform architecture, data engineering, and migration planning. You must demonstrate proficiency in warehouse compute architecture, data residency, cost optimization, and governance. The role focuses on solving complex platform build-out challenges, ensuring scalable and financially sustainable data transformations while managing credit consumption and production-ready engineering processes.
What does a Architect earn?
Median $225000 from 45 postings across 26 companies.
Lead technical discovery, qualification, and target architecture design for Snowflake migration opportunities.
Develop technical content for proposals and Statements of Work (SOWs) including effort and risk sizing.
Provide architectural oversight throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure alignment with original scopes.
Define technical content, success criteria, and repeatable frameworks for Snowflake-focused service offerings.
Collaborate with Snowflake field teams and specialist architects on joint customer engagements.
Execute enterprise-scale migrations from legacy systems like SAP, Oracle, and Teradata to Snowflake.
Design production-ready data engineering pipelines, including ingestion, transformation, and orchestration.
Manage consumption economics by providing guidance on warehouse sizing, cost optimization, and monitoring.
What we're looking for
Must possess substantial hands-on Snowflake experience gained through a partner organization, Snowflake directly, or managing a significant internal environment.
Must have deep expertise in platform architecture, migration and consolidation, and data engineering.
Must have proven experience delivering enterprise-scale migration and consolidation initiatives, specifically from SAP and Oracle environments.
Must have demonstrated success operating at a Principal Architect level or equivalent as a senior technical authority in customer engagements.
Must have experience in presales or delivery leadership, including defining scope, developing proposals, and creating Statements of Work.
Must be proficient in designing warehouse and compute architectures, connectivity, data residency, and cost architecture for long-term scalability.
Must be proficient in data ingestion, transformation, pipeline orchestration, testing frameworks, and data quality instrumentation.
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