Senior Manager (Data Engineering Team) – Field CTO / Applied Field Engineering at Snowflake | Sydney | Rezi

Senior Manager (Data Engineering Team) – Field CTO / Applied Field Engineering at Snowflake

Senior Manager (Data Engineering Team) – Field CTO / Applied Field Engineering

Snowflake · Sydney

2 months ago

Senior Manager (Data Engineering Team) – Field CTO / Applied Field Engineering

Snowflake · Sydney

2 months ago
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About the Role

Snowflake is seeking AI-native thinkers to power the era of the agentic enterprise. The Applied Field Engineering / Field CTO Office is looking for a Senior Manager to lead a team of Data Engineering Field CTOs, providing strategic vision, leadership, and technical oversight to help customers build and optimize data and AI architectures on the Snowflake Cloud Data Platform.

Responsibilities

  • Build, manage, and mentor a world-class team of Field Data Engineers, fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture.
  • Partner with sales leadership and strategic customers to tackle complex data engineering and AI workloads.
  • Establish clear goals, drive accountability, and celebrate impact.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to both technical contributors and C-level executives.
  • Act as a critical feedback loop between the field and engineering, collaborating with Product Management.
  • Partner with Product Marketing to scale team expertise through technical content and events.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience directly managing and scaling high-performing technical teams in Data Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or Field Engineering.
  • Experience managing and scaling geographically distributed teams, with a deep understanding of cultural dynamics across APJ.
  • Strong passion for mentoring engineers and supporting career development.
  • Results-oriented mindset with experience driving accountability and high performance.
  • Strong understanding of modern data engineering ecosystems, advanced analytics, and AI/ML operationalization (LLMs, RAG, feature stores).
  • Deep knowledge of data integration patterns, streaming, real-time ingestion, and data pipeline orchestration.
  • Strong technical foundations in SQL, Python, or Scala.
  • Exceptional presentation and communication skills, with ability to navigate complex customer relationships at the executive level.
  • Proven ability to assess technical gaps and articulate solutions that drive business outcomes.

Skills

  • Data Engineering
  • AI/ML
  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • Feature Stores
  • Data Integration
  • Streaming
  • Real-time Ingestion
  • Data Pipeline Orchestration
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Scala
  • Presentation Skills
  • Communication Skills

Location

  • APJ

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Senior Manager
  • 5+ years of management experience

Education Level

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field preferred

About the Company

  • Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
  • Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth.
  • We look for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation.