Snowflake Field CTO

Blend360 is a premier data, AI, and marketing consulting firm that partners with the world's most ambitious organizations to turn complex challenges into competitive advantage. We sit at the intersection of deep analytical rigor and pragmatic business execution—helping Fortune 1000 companies and Private Equity-backed businesses unlock transformational value through data, technology, and human expertise.

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 customer 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. As a Field CTO and Snowflake Architect, your role is to serve as the technical authority — making platform decisions, representing them to client stakeholders, and guiding the team through the complexity of data and AI architecture and multi-tenant infrastructure design. You’ll report to Blend’s VP of Practice and Solutions and Global Snowflake Practice Head while working within the practices and solutions team along with delivery team and will have regular visibility to the client’s executive leadership.  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  As a Snowflake Field CTO, you will 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  Ensure the technical roadmap aligns with for our go-to-market solutions and accelerators Serve as a credible technical voice in early client and partner conversations    Who You Are:  Technical Depth  Enterprise data platforms (Snowflake plus AWS or equivalent)  Real-time and batch data architecture  ML/AI systems and embeddings infrastructure  Cortex AI, CoWork and AI architecture of Snowflake Data integration capabilities including Snowflake native as well as nice to have expertise on 3rd party solutions such as Fivetran, dbt and/or other relevant providers. Executive Presence & Communication  You’ve worked directly with CTO-level stakeholders and executives with clear communication — not through layers  You move comfortably between