About the Role
As a Senior Technical Architect on the Services Delivery team, you will own the technical delivery and outcome for complex, high-priority engagements. You will serve as the most senior technical voice, shaping how customers use Snowflake to drive real business transformation and powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
Skills
- AI/ML
- Snowflake
- MLOps
- SQL
- Python
- Generative AI
- Large Language Models (LLM)
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- BA/BS in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
About the Company
- Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise.
- We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset.
- 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.
- 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.
