Principal Enterprise Architect, Data and AI (FSI), Applied Field Engineering
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Principal Enterprise Architect, Data and AI (FSI), Applied Field Engineering at Snowflake is a forward deployed cloud data warehouse role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
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This Forward Deployed Engineer role centers on embedded customer delivery — discovery, prototyping, integration, and production rollout. Key signals from the listing: Senior scope.
About Snowflake
Snowflake field engineers drive warehouse migrations and analytics modernization with enterprise buyers. The role is anchored in AU-Sydney, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Signals in the listing
Stand out for Principal Enterprise Architect, Data and AI (FSI), Applied Field Engineering
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Principal Enterprise Architect, Data and AI (FSI), Applied Field Engineering to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Snowflake hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Prepare a 5-minute “week one on site” plan: who you would meet, what you would inspect in their stack, and what artifact you would deliver by day five.
- Show you can go from discovery notes → working integration → production checklist without needing a large internal team.
- This role is tied to AU-Sydney — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Snowflake
- Demonstrate SQL/ELT patterns with a concrete example — Snowflake will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate cost governance with a concrete example — Snowflake will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Proof of running a successful migration or cost-optimization project beats generic cloud buzzwords.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on snowflake.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
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. We are hiring a Principal Enterprise Architect, Data and AI for our Applied Field Engineering (Field CTO) team, focused on the Financial Services Industry across Australia. This role sits at the intersection of Snowflake's most strategic FSI customers and our product and engineering organizations, shaping how banks, insurers, and capital markets firms adopt the AI Data Cloud. Success here is measured not by artifacts produced, but by the architecture decisions you influence and the industry outcomes you unlock. AS A PRINCIPAL ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: - Serve as the senior technical authority and trusted advisor to CxO and chief-architect stakeholders at Australia's largest financial institutions, translating business strategy into durable data and AI architecture. - Define reference architectures and modernization roadmaps for FSI workloads such as risk, fraud, regulatory reporting, customer 360, and generative AI, grounded in the Snowflake platform including Cortex AI and Snowpark. - Lead high-stakes architectural engagements end to end, from discovery through to a defensible target-state design that balances governance, data residency, and regulatory requirements. - Influence the Snowflake product roadmap by channeling field insight and FSI regulatory