Principal Enterprise Architect, Data and AI (FSI), Applied Field Engineering

The role

This person will serve as a senior technical authority and advisor to CxO stakeholders at large Australian financial institutions. They will define reference architectures and modernization roadmaps for FSI workloads on the Snowflake platform.

What you will do

• Serve as senior technical authority and trusted advisor to CxO and chief-architect stakeholders at Australia's largest financial institutions.
• Define reference architectures and modernization roadmaps for FSI workloads including risk, fraud, regulatory reporting, customer 360, and generative AI.
• Lead high-stakes architectural engagements from discovery to target-state design.
• Influence the Snowflake product roadmap by channeling field insight and FSI regulatory needs to product and engineering teams.
• Partner with account teams, solution engineers, and SI and GSI partners to unblock technical decisions.
• Set the technical bar for the Field CTO practice in the region by mentoring architects and solution engineers.
• Represent Snowflake as a thought leader at executive briefings, industry forums, and regulatory working groups.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, cloud data platforms, or enterprise architecture, with deep exposure to financial services.
• Track record of company-wide or industry-wide technical influence at senior stakeholder levels.
• Deep understanding of data platform, analytics, and AI and machine learning architecture, including generative AI and retrieval-augmented workflows.
• Fluency in the FSI regulatory and risk landscape, including data governance, residency, privacy, and operational resilience for Australian financial institutions.
• Proven ability to personally lead technical discovery and solutioning.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with executive and technical audiences, or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in the Telecommunications sector
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake, or comparable cloud data platforms across 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

About the company

Snowflake is powering the era of the agentic enterprise and is scaling its team to enable and accelerate growth.