Senior Enterprise Architect, Data & AI (FSI)

Snowflake Inc.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Snowflake Inc. is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Data and AI in Australia, focusing on the Financial Services sector. You will partner with CxOs to translate business strategy into durable data and AI architectures and shape modernization roadmaps using Snowflake, Cortex AI, and Snowpark.

You will lead end-to-end architectural engagements, influence the product roadmap, and mentor regional architects, representing Snowflake at executive briefings and regulatory forums.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, cloud data platforms, or enterprise architecture, with deep exposure to financial services.
• A track record of company-wide or industry-wide technical influence, shaping architecture decisions at the most senior stakeholder levels.
• Deep understanding of data platform, analytics, and AI and machine learning architecture, including modern approaches to generative AI and retrieval-augmented workflows.
• Fluency in the FSI regulatory and risk landscape, including data governance, residency, privacy, and operational resilience expectations relevant to Australian financial institutions.
• While the role primarily focuses on Financial Services Industry (FSI), experience in the Telecommunications sector is highly desirable.
• Proven ability to personally lead technical discovery and solutioning, not only to orchestrate specialists.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with executive and technical audiences, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• 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 needs back to product and engineering teams.
• Partner with account teams, solution engineers, and SI and GSI partners to unblock the most complex technical decisions and accelerate platform consumption.
• Set the technical bar for the Field CTO practice in the region, mentoring architects and solution engineers and codifying reusable patterns.
• Represent Snowflake as a thought leader at executive briefings, industry forums, and regulatory working groups across the Australian FSI market.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloud data platforms

Enterprise architecture

FSI experience

Stakeholder influencing

Generative AI

Regulatory compliance

Tools

Snowflake platform

Snowpark

Cortex AI

Job description

Snowflake Inc. is seeking a Principal Enterprise Architect for Data and AI in Australia, focusing on the Financial Services sector. You will partner with CxOs to translate business strategy into durable data and AI architectures and shape modernization roadmaps using Snowflake, Cortex AI, and Snowpark.

You will lead end-to-end architectural engagements, influence the product roadmap, and mentor regional architects, representing Snowflake at executive briefings and regulatory forums.