Principal Security Architect, Applied Field Engineering

The role

You will act as a security evangelist, architect, and hands-on subject matter expert for the APJ Field CTO Office. You will cultivate customer relationships, advise on security, and collaborate with internal teams to drive feature adoption and product improvements.

What you will do

• Scope security related feature enhancements with Product Management.
• Clarify concepts of data engineering, data warehousing, data collaboration, AI and Machine Learning.
• Build demos and prototypes using Snowflake and integrated solutions.
• Collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Support to drive feature adoption.
• Partner with Product Marketing to define Snowflake's AI and Data Cloud posture.
• Work with Field CTO members in areas like Enterprise AI and Gen AI.
• Help shape vision and capabilities for Snowflake Data Marketplace.
• Share knowledge with internal and industry communities via webinars and conferences.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of industry, customer-facing, and hands-on implementation experience with a core focus on data concepts, privacy, governance, networking, infosec and security technologies.
• Strong understanding of security related concepts such as RBAC, OAuth, Identity and Access Management, encryption and data governance.
• Expertise and in-depth working knowledge and hands-on experience in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and its corresponding security, data encryption, and networking architecture and technologies.
• Ability to build out demos, configure CSP environments, build out prototypes, and test use cases on the Snowflake platform and relevant integrations.
• Ability to create security and networking-related reference architectures, security best practices and hardening guides.
• Demonstrated knowledge of security frameworks such as NIST, CIS, OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, IP routing, DNS, Proxies and CSP private networking technologies including NAT, Firewalls, TLS.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, including cloud service providers like Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Strong understanding of identity management use cases, including authentication (SAML), authorization (OAUTH), and identity governance (SCIM & RBAC).
• Deep experience with large-scale infrastructure-as-a-service platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, presentation and whiteboarding skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Management Systems, or related field required.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of ANSI SQL compliant databases and / or data warehousing
• AWS/Azure/GCP security and / or networking specialty related certification achievement
• Masters preferred

Before you apply

• Flexibility of working with customers and colleagues from multiple APJ time zones.

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise. The company seeks AI-native thinkers to help redefine the future of how work gets done.