Miguel Ángel Rivera Alonso

RVP, Solution Engineering - EMEA South at Snowflake ❄️ The AI Data Cloud

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

About

With a deep passion for technology, innovation, and human potential, I’ve spent more than 20 years focused on business transformation, people and business management, specialized sales, presales, and consulting across diverse industries, companies, and countries. Since stepping into leadership roles in 2011, my mission has been clear: to inspire, empower, and elevate those around me. I believe true leadership is built on empathy, authenticity, and strategic vision, and I do have and enjoy the pleasure of guiding multicultural, high-performing teams to achieve meaningful and sustainable success. I’m driven by curiosity, collaboration, and the constant pursuit of personal growth, always striving to create environments where people and ideas can truly thrive.

Experience

  • Snowflake (3 yrs 4 mos)
    • Regional Vice President, Solution Engineering - EMEA
      May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Over the past few years, I have had the pleasure of leading several Solution Engineering teams across the South, North, West and East of Europe, the Middle East and Africa (+90 countries), driving strategic initiatives and fostering collaboration to achieve organisational goals. I am in charge of leading and empowering an amazing group of RVPs, directors, managers and Solution Engineers in each of the countries to excel in their roles, developing world class teams and ensuring alignment and performance across global operations. Snowflake enables every organization to mobilize their data with Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud. Customers use the AI Data Cloud to unite siloed data, discover and securely share data, power data applications, and execute diverse AI/ML and analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single data experience that spans multiple clouds and geographies. Learn more about Snowflake: ➡️ Website: https://www.snowflake.com ➡️ Careers: https://lnkd.in/eiZ3b-SQ ➡️ Podcast page: https://bit.ly/3sFXst6 ➡️ Twitter: https://lnkd.in/erJynEvP ➡️ Instagram: https://lnkd.in/e4YyY5hb ➡️ Facebook: https://lnkd.in/e7KygyDx ➡️ LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2QUexl4 ➡️ Sign up for our weekly live demo program and have your questions answered by a Snowflake expert at https://bit.ly/2TdVCmJ Listen on: 🔈 Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3cCdrCU 🔈 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/39vCNjH 🔈 Simplecast: https://bit.ly/3rFCrgA ❄Join our YouTube community❄ https://bit.ly/3lzfeeB

    • Head of Sales Engineering - Spain & Portugal
      Apr 2023 - May 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Leading the Sales Engineering Team for Spain and Portugal at Snowflake.

  • Microsoft (7 yrs 1 mo)
    • Senior Manager, Head of Data&AI
      Jul 2021 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

      I had the pleasure to be in charge of both Data&AI Cloud Solution Architecture and Customer Engineering teams, advising and helping the most important Microsoft customers in multiple environments, countries and markets (mostly across Europe and LATAM), to adopt and take advantage of Microsoft Azure Data products and services.

    • Manager, Customer Engineering - Data&AI
      Feb 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Leading an amazing team of Customer Engineers, focused on Data & AI, who help our European customers to get the best out of our technology.

    • Cloud Solution Architecture Territory Lead
      Jul 2018 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Customer Success Unit Territory Lead for Retail, Travel & Entertainment & Hospitality, in the Spanish market. Coordination of presales efforts, architecture and implementation of Cloud initiatives to customers and partners in the territory, by managing and organizing the efforts of a team of Cloud Solution Architects who work to ensure the satisfaction of our customers in their experience with Azure.

  • Big Data Presales Lead at Teradata
    Sep 2015 - Feb 2016 · 6 mos

    Leader of presales, design and development of Big Data & Business Analytics solutions, based on Apache technologies (Hadoop and its ecosystem , Spark, NoSQL databases, etc.) and Teradata offering.

  • Head of Business Intelligence and Big Data at AN GLOBAL
    Apr 2011 - Aug 2015 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    I had the opportunity to create, grow and develop an amazing team of people, by leading the Business Intelligence & Big Data practice, mainly focused on Spain and LATAM. From hiring to selling and managing people and clients, I owned the numbers and performance of the unit, and was involved on the whole selling process and business control, while managed the biggest projects and initiatives in order to ensure success and growth.

  • Senior Consultant / BI Specialist at BlueTIC
    Jul 2008 - Apr 2011 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Senior Consultant, focused on Data & Analytics projects, BI and app development for several customers in different industries: FSI, Retail, Public Sector, etc.