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Sr. Technical Architect

Role overview

Qualifications

  • BA/BS in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field
  • 8+ years of experience in solutions architecture, technical consulting, data engineering, or a senior customer-facing technical role
  • Deep hands-on experience implementing Snowflake in production environments
  • Expert-level understanding of the full data analytics stack

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer engagements as the primary technical authority, owning architecture decisions and driving measurable outcomes
  • Architect and implement end-to-end AI/ML solutions on Snowflake, setting standards for scalability and performance
  • Act as a bridge between SD delivery, Go-to-Market, and Snowflake product teams
  • Mentor and provide technical direction to junior architects and consultants within engagements

About the company

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Snowflake

Computer Software / SaaS

Snowflake delivers the AI Data Cloud β€” a global network where thousands of organizations mobilize data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. Inside the AI Data Cloud, organizations unite their siloed data, easily discover and securely share governed data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. Wherever data or users live, Snowflake delivers a single and seamless experience across multiple public clouds. Snowflake’s platform is the engine that powers and provides access to the AI Data Cloud, creating a solution for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and data sharing. Join Snowflake customers, partners, and data providers already taking their businesses to new frontiers in the AI Data Cloud.

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryComputer Software / SaaS
Company size5001 - 10000

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Job description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset β€” who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

We are hiring a Senior Technical Architect for our Services Delivery team. Our SD organization partners with customers across every stage of their data and AI journey, from initial implementation through long-term platform strategy. In this role, you will own the technical delivery and outcome for complex, high-priority engagements, serve as the most senior technical voice in the room, and shape how our customers use Snowflake to drive real business transformation.

AS A SENIOR TECHNICAL ARCHITECT AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL:

Customer Leadership and Advisory

  • Lead customer engagements as the primary technical authority, owning architecture decisions and driving measurable outcomes across complex, multi-workstream implementations

  • Partner with customer executives and senior technical leadership to define platform strategy, develop long-term roadmaps, and align Snowflake capabilities to business objectives

  • Translate ambiguous business problems into well-defined, scalable technical solutions, with clear delivery paths and risk-mitigation strategies

  • Serve as the trusted escalation point for technical challenges within engagements, unblocking delivery teams and resolving architectural issues

Technical Architecture and Delivery

  • Architect and implement end-to-end AI/ML solutions on Snowflake, setting standards for scalability, performance, security, and operability across the customer's environment

  • Define and champion MLOps practices within customer organizations, covering model deployment pipelines, monitoring, governance frameworks, and lifecycle management

  • Drive adoption of Snowflake's AI product suite (Cortex, Streamlit in Snowflake, Snowflake Intelligence) through architecture leadership and hands-on delivery

  • Lead replatforming efforts for complex AI/ML workloads onto Snowflake, coordinating across customer engineering, data science, and platform teams

Cross-Functional Influence

  • Act as a bridge between SD delivery, Go-to-Market, and Snowflake product teams, channeling customer feedback to influence product direction

  • Mentor and provide technical direction to junior architects and consultants within engagements

  • Contribute to the development of reusable architecture patterns, reference implementations, and delivery accelerators for the broader PD organization

OUR IDEAL SENIOR TECHNICAL ARCHITECT WILL HAVE:

  • BA/BS in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

  • 8+ years of experience in solutions architecture, technical consulting, data engineering, or a senior customer-facing technical role

  • Demonstrated track record leading architecture decisions on large-scale, enterprise data and AI platforms

  • Deep hands-on experience implementing Snowflake in production environments, including data modeling, performance tuning, security design, and platform governance

  • Expert-level understanding of the full data analytics stack, from ETL and data pipelines to data platform architecture, BI tooling, and semantic layers

  • Strong grasp of the AI/ML lifecycle, from data preparation and feature engineering through model training, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing governance

  • Proficiency in SQL and Python; ability to produce and review production-quality code as part of delivery leadership

  • Experience designing and implementing MLOps frameworks and model lifecycle management at enterprise scale

  • Proven ability to influence senior technical and executive stakeholders and navigate complex organizational dynamics

BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:

  • Hands-on experience with generative AI and large language model (LLM) use cases in production

  • Experience building and scaling a Center of Excellence or establishing architectural standards across a large enterprise

  • Background in the services organization of a technology product company

  • AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure Advanced certification(s)

  • Snowflake SnowPro Advanced Certification(s)

  • Deep industry vertical expertise (e.g., Financial Services, Healthcare, Media and Entertainment)

  • Experience as a technical lead on multi-team or multi-vendor delivery programs

WHY JOIN OUR SERVICES DELIVERY TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?

Services Delivery at Snowflake puts you at the intersection of enterprise-scale data architecture and the most important AI transformation work happening in the market today. At this level, you'll have real influence, not just over individual engagements, but over how we build and deliver as an organization. The problems are genuinely hard, the customers are sophisticated, and the work directly shapes how some of the world's largest companies run their data and AI platforms.

If you want a senior role where your architectural decisions have organizational impact, where you're constantly working at the edge of what Snowflake can do, and where you're surrounded by people who push each other to get better, this is it.

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

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