Security Architect

We seek energetic technical Security Architects (SAs) to secure our customers' Snowflake environments. SAs are passionate about security, often involving tremendous technology challenges that require no simple solutions. SAs exhibit flexibility and willingness to roll up their sleeves and do whatever makes Snowflake and our customers successful. Success requires working collaboratively with a broad range of people inside and outside the company.

Our Sales Engineering organization is seeking a Security Architect to join our US Industries Field CTO Office to act as a security evangelist, architect, and hands-on subject matter expert/practitioner. In this role, you will cultivate key customer and partnership relationships, demonstrate thought leadership, and act as a trusted security advisor to current and potential customers. You will also collaborate with internal and external technical and business stake Security Architect, you must share our passion and vision in helping our customers and partners secure their Snowflake Accounts, thrive in a dynamic environment, and have the flexibility and willingness to jump in and get things done. You are equally comfortable in both a business and technical context, interacting with executives and talking shop and deep diving with technical audiences.  

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO: 

• Help to scope security related feature enhancements on behalf of customers to work with Product Management on ways to improve the product from a security perspective. 

• Assist in clarifying data warehouse concepts, industry best practices, and features in the Snowflake platform; Assist in building demos and prototypes using Snowflake’s marketplace UI in conjunction with other integrated solutions; Engage with other relevant Snowflake stakeholders internally.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Support in order to drive customer security feature adoption.

• Partner with our Product Marketing team to define and support Snowflake's Marketplace posture and security analytics workload awareness and pipeline building via marketing initiatives including conferences, trade shows, and events.

• Partner with the best in the industry product team, helping to shape vision and capabilities for Snowflake Data Marketplace

• Share knowledge with internal and industry communities via webinars & conferences

ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE: 

• 10+ years of industry, customer-facing, and hands-on implementation experience with a core focus on data concepts and technologies

• Strong understanding of security related concepts such as RBAC, OAuth, Identity and Access Management, encryption and data governance.

• Expertise and in-depth working knowledge of cloud platforms (at least one of the following: AWS, Azure, GCP), and its corresponding security, data encryption, and networking architecture and technologies

• Ability to build out demos, prototypes, and test use cases on the Snowflake platform

• Ability to create security and networking-related reference architectures, best practice and hardening guides, and articulate them to a customer audience

• Knowledge of ANSI SQL compliant databases and / or data warehousing is preferred

• AWS/Azure/GCP security and / or networking specialty related certification achievement is a plus

• Strong understanding of networking concepts, including routing, DNS, Proxies and CSP private networking technologies

• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, including cloud service providers like Azure, AWS, and GCP

• Strong understanding of identity management use cases, including authentication (SAML), authorization (OAUTH), and identity governance (SCIM & RBAC)

• Deep experience with large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, presentation and whiteboarding skills to a large audience, and the ability to successfully communicate security and risk-related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Management Systems, or related field required. Masters preferred.

BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:

• Hands-on expertise with SQL, Python, and APIs

• Outstanding skills in presenting to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos

• Experience selling enterprise SaaS software

How do you want to make your impact?

Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.

The application window is expected to be open until October 6, 2024. This opportunity will remain posted based on business needs, which may be before or after the specified date.