FSI Data & AI Principal Architect

Snowflake; The Rocks; On-site; AUD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Data & AI in Australia. You will shape data and AI architecture for major financial institutions, influence product direction, and lead regional Field CTO activities.

You will engage with executives to drive modern data platforms, ensuring governance, residency, and regulatory alignment while advancing Snowflake adoption across the Australian FSI market.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture or enterprise architecture, with FSIs.
• Experience influencing technical decisions at CxO level.
• Deep understanding of data platforms, analytics, AI, and ML architectures.
• Fluency in FSI regulatory, data governance, residency, privacy and resilience.
• Experience in Field CTO or customer-facing architectural roles is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior technical authority to CxO and chief architect stakeholders in Australia’s financial institutions; translate business strategy into durable data/AI architecture.
• Define reference architectures and modernization roadmaps for FSI workloads including risk, fraud, regulatory reporting, and generative AI on Snowflake platform.
• Lead end-to-end architectural engagements from discovery to target-state design with governance and regulatory considerations.
• Influence product roadmap by channeling field insight and FSI regulatory needs to product/engineering teams.
• Partner with account teams, solution engineers, SI and GSI partners to unblock complex decisions and accelerate platform consumption.
• Set the technical bar for the Field CTO practice in the region; mentor architects and solution engineers.
• Represent Snowflake as a thought leader at executive briefings, industry forums, and regulatory working groups.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud data platforms

Regulatory knowledge

Executive communication

Generative AI

Tools

Snowflake

Snowpark

Cortex AI

Job description

Snowflake is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Data & AI in Australia. You will shape data and AI architecture for major financial institutions, influence product direction, and lead regional Field CTO activities.

You will engage with executives to drive modern data platforms, ensuring governance, residency, and regulatory alignment while advancing Snowflake adoption across the Australian FSI market.