Principal Data Cloud Architect - SI Partners

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn’t just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

Principal Data Cloud Architect - SI Partners

We are seeking a highly experienced and results-driven AI/ML focused Principal Data Cloud Architect to join our Partner Solution Engineering (PSE) team. Our mission is to empower System Integrator (SI) partners to rapidly achieve technical wins and successful production deployments of AI/ML solutions on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud, enables teams to seamlessly run analytical workflows, develop agentic apps, and train models using both structured and unstructured data. With over 4,000 customers leveraging our gen AI and ML technology weekly, we are at the forefront of AI innovation. This role is crucial in accelerating AI/ML customer journey technical wins and production deployments being implemented by SI partners.

In this role you will perform

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Strategic Account Alignment with top accounts for SI partners (Focus on Acceleration)

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SI Partner Snowflake Practice Building (Focus on Production Readiness)

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Work on Initiatives and Joint Solutions with SI partners (Focus on Market-Ready Solutions)

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AI/ML Focused work with SI partners (Hands-On Expertise)

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Mentor and guide junior cloud architects in our PSE team working on critical AI/ML engagements with our SI partners, aiming to accelerate their customer journeys, ensuring production readiness, and developing market-ready solutions. By sharing expertise and providing hands‑on guidance, the Principal Data Cloud Architect will empower the junior team members to effectively support SI partners in deploying successful AI/ML solutions on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.

On day one we will expect you to have

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REQUIRED: Experience working at a large System Integrator (SI), with a proven track record of accelerating technical wins and production deployments.

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PLUS: Knowledge of competitive AI/ML platforms and solutions.

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Extensive experience with cloud data platforms, preferably Snowflake.

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Hands‑on experience with Cloud ML platforms such as Sagemaker, Azure ML, VertexAI, and/or MLFlow.

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Experience building and deploying ML model pipelines using serverless and containerized computing including AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, Docker, Kubernetes etc.

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Familiarity with MLOps and CI/CD processes and tools, such as GIT, Azure DevOps, Sagemaker Pipelines, Google Cloud Build

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Experience with developing AI/ML use cases including communicating AI/ML strategy and business value

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Experience using Big Data or Cloud integration technologies such as Matillion, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue, AWS Lambda

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Experience in developing and deploying Machine Learning models through the full Data Science life cycle.

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Expertise in data science programming languages including Python, SQL, Scala, and/or Spark.

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Strong experience with major cloud platforms and tooling, especially Azure, AWS, GCP

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Strong CS fundamentals, including proficiency with data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.

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10+ years industry experience designing, building and supporting large-scale systems with a minimum of 5 years in a pre‑sales role.

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BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related majors.

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This role requires a highly motivated and results‑driven individual who is passionate about accelerating AI/ML adoption and success for our partners. If you are ready to make a significant impact and drive rapid AI/ML implementation, and possess the required experience at a large System Integrator, we encourage you to apply.

Compensation

$189,000 – $248,062