Senior AI & Data Technical Program Manager

Snowflake Inc.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead Frontier Engineering in Sydney.

You will oversee multi-workstream technical programs across Forward Deployed Engineering engagements, embedding with customer teams to productionize data and AI solutions, coordinating with product and engineering teams globally. The role requires hands-on leadership in production delivery, technical risk management, and the ability to challenge estimates while navigating enterprise environments

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading complex, multi-workstream technical programs.
• Hands-on delivery leadership into production (data platform, MLOps, GenAI/AI, or software projects).
• Experience delivering in enterprise customer environments with shared delivery responsibilities.
• Strong dependency and technical risk management across multiple engineering teams.
• Ability to challenge engineering estimates and drive sequencing decisions with leads.
• Independent operation in ambiguous environments with sound judgment.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated technical plan, cross-workstream dependencies and technical risk across multiple FDE workstreams.
• Drive workstreams from readiness through integration, release, production cutover and handoff.
• Identify and prioritize customer-driven product gaps and defects; drive resolution with Snowflake teams.
• Provide estimates, effort and risk input to protect delivery feasibility.
• Provide commercial awareness of SOW scope and change control and delivery done at risk.
• Identify scope changes and emerging constraints; provide impact assessments for SOW management.
• Report technical status to stakeholders from engineering teams to executives.
• Use AI-assisted workflows to improve delivery tooling and execution.
• Help establish the FDE Technical Program Management practice in ANZ.

Skills

Multi-workstream leadership

Hands-on delivery leadership

Enterprise delivery

Dependency & risk management

Technical collaboration

Tools

Snowflake Cortex

Openflow

Cloud data platforms

Job description

Snowflake Inc. is seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead Frontier Engineering in Sydney.

You will oversee multi-workstream technical programs across Forward Deployed Engineering engagements, embedding with customer teams to productionize data and AI solutions, coordinating with product and engineering teams globally. The role requires hands-on leadership in production delivery, technical risk management, and the ability to challenge estimates while navigating enterprise environments