Senior Snowflake AI Data Platform Architect

Lumiq Talent; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 190,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumiq Talent's client, a leading Australian financial services business, seeks a Principal Engineer to architect and lead an AI-native data platform on Snowflake. You will set technical direction, define patterns for scalable data and AI solutions, and lead enterprise modelling from Data Vault to dimensional models.

Hybrid work with a North Sydney office is offered. You will drive LLM, vector and semantic workflows inside the platform, collaborate with AI engineers, and mentor the team to ensure

Qualifications

• Deep experience with Snowflake, SQL, dbt and Python.
• Hands-on with Snowpark, Cortex and Snowflake ML.
• Experience designing AI-enabled data workflows at scale.
• Experience with scalable data architectures and enterprise modelling.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the architecture of the AI native data platform in Snowflake.
• Set design patterns for scalable, high performing data and AI solutions.
• Lead enterprise data modelling including Data Vault and common data models.
• Drive AI-enabled workflows and embedding AI into the platform at scale.
• Partner with AI engineers and platform teams to bring Snowflake hosted intelligence to enterprise apps.
• Lead reliability, monitoring and governance across data and AI.
• Shape how the team uses AI-assisted development across the SDLC.
• Mentor and act as a technical advisor to build engineering excellence.

Skills

Snowflake

SQL

dbt

Python

LLM workflows

Vector workflows

Semantic modeling

Architecture standards

Tools

Snowpark

Cortex

Snowflake ML

Job description

Lumiq Talent's client, a leading Australian financial services business, seeks a Principal Engineer to architect and lead an AI-native data platform on Snowflake. You will set technical direction, define patterns for scalable data and AI solutions, and lead enterprise modelling from Data Vault to dimensional models.

Hybrid work with a North Sydney office is offered. You will drive LLM, vector and semantic workflows inside the platform, collaborate with AI engineers, and mentor the team to ensure