Principal Enterprise Architect, Data and AI

Location: Hybrid, AU-Sydney, Australia

Company

Snowflake provides the AI Data Cloud and develops data, analytics, and AI capabilities for enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Advise CxO and chief-architect stakeholders at major Australian financial institutions on durable data and AI architecture.
• Define reference architectures and modernization roadmaps for risk, fraud, regulatory reporting, customer 360, and generative AI workloads using Snowflake, Cortex AI, and Snowpark.
• Lead architectural engagements from discovery through defensible target-state designs balancing governance, data residency, and regulatory requirements.
• Channel field insight and Australian financial-services regulatory needs to Snowflake product and engineering teams.
• Partner with account teams, solution engineers, and SI/GSI partners to resolve complex technical decisions and accelerate platform adoption.
• Mentor architects and solution engineers, codify reusable patterns, and represent Snowflake at executive briefings, industry forums, and regulatory working groups.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, cloud data platforms, or enterprise architecture, with deep exposure to financial services.
• Company-wide or industry-wide technical influence, including shaping architecture decisions with senior stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of data-platform, analytics, AI, and machine-learning architecture, including modern generative AI and retrieval-augmented workflows.
• Fluency in the Australian financial-services regulatory and risk landscape, including data governance, residency, privacy, and operational resilience expectations.
• Ability to personally lead technical discovery and solutioning rather than only orchestrating specialists.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with executive and technical audiences, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with Snowflake or comparable cloud data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience building or advising on generative AI and large language model applications in a regulated environment.
• Familiarity with the Australian FSI partner, SI, and GSI ecosystem.
• Prior experience in a Field CTO, office of the CTO, or principal customer-facing architect capacity.
• Experience in the Telecommunications sector.

Culture & Benefits

• AI-native, experimental working approach focused on testing emerging capabilities and improving how work gets done.
• Low-ego environment for challenging ordinary thinking and moving quickly.
• Opportunity to influence the future of enterprise data and AI architecture and contribute to Snowflake's growth.