Field CTO

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Lead the pre-sales process and act as a strategic advisor to customers.

• Create AI Data Cloud architectures utilizing the Snowflake technology stack.

• Facilitate customer workshops and hands-on labs in collaboration with Snowflake sales teams.

• Spearhead pre-sales initiatives to secure Snowflake opportunities.

• Develop relevant solutions and accelerators alongside internal practice and solutions teams.

• Define and validate technical blueprints for cloud data warehouses, clean room infrastructure, embedded compute, and AI architecture.

• Suggest solution strategies, prepare high-level effort estimates, and lead client presentations.

• Identify and mitigate critical-path blockers in areas such as infrastructure, data architecture, integrations, and identity resolution.

• Assess technical proposals against real-world scalability and operational complexity.

• Connect engineering and data science teams with senior technical stakeholders from clients.

• Propel go-to-market strategies in collaboration with the Practices and Solutions team.

• Engage in leadership discussions alongside Blend, Snowflake, and client executives.

• Spot gaps and opportunities to enhance customer value through Snowflake solutions.

• Convert technical capabilities into commercially compelling differentiators.

• Ensure that technical roadmaps are aligned with go-to-market solutions and accelerators.

• Act as the technical voice in initial discussions with clients and partners.

• Report directly to Blend’s VP of Practice and Solutions and the Global Snowflake Practice Head.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 15 years of experience in data or platform architecture.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with systems at a significant scale.

• Extensive experience with Snowflake and AWS or other cloud service providers, or a similar enterprise data platform.

• Proven ability to lead technical strategies in high-pressure client or executive settings.

• Experience in consulting delivery or embedded partner roles.

• Expertise in migration or modernization processes within Snowflake.

• Familiarity with building Data Mesh architecture using Snowflake's data-sharing capabilities.

• Experience collaborating with Snowflake sales and solutions teams.

• Knowledge of enterprise data platforms, real-time and batch data architecture, and ML/AI systems and embeddings infrastructure.

• Experience with Cortex AI, CoWork, and Snowflake AI architecture.

• Proficient in Snowflake-native data integration capabilities.

• Preferred: Familiarity with Fivetran, dbt, or other relevant third-party solutions.

• Preferred: Knowledge of clean room or federated data architecture, feature store, identity resolution, data monetization, AWS/cloud infrastructure design, Snowflake certification, and launching solutions on Snowflake Marketplace.

• Must be comfortable engaging with CTO-level stakeholders and executives.

• Must be able to discuss architectural trade-offs in relation to business impact.

• Must be adept at guiding high-stakes clients through their Snowflake journey.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Paid time off.

• Paid holidays.

• Commuter benefits.

• Flexible spending accounts.

• Life insurance.

• Disability insurance.

• Employee assistance programs.