Senior TPM — AI/Data Platform Production Leader

Snowflake

The Rocks

On-site

AUD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Snowflake in Sydney seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead Forward Deployed Engineering engagements. You will coordinate multi-workstream data/AI transformation projects embedded with customer engineering teams and align with Snowflake Product & Engineering across time zones.

You will drive integrated technical plans, manage dependencies, and shepherd production delivery from readiness to cutover.

Qualifications

8+ years leading complex, multi-workstream technical programs.
Hands-on delivery leadership of technical programs into production, such as data platform, MLOps, GenAI/AI, or software and application development.
Experience leading technical delivery within enterprise customer environments, navigating customer-owned infrastructure, access constraints, and shared delivery responsibilities.
Strong dependency and technical risk management across multiple engineering teams.
Technical depth to challenge engineering estimates, assess architectural and integration trade-offs, identify delivery risks, and drive sequencing decisions with engineering leads.
The conviction to challenge customers, engineering teams, and senior stakeholders when assumptions, technical decisions, or delivery plans don't hold up.
Operates independently in ambiguous environments, exercises sound judgment without waiting for consensus, and takes ownership of getting to an outcome.

Responsibilities

Own the integrated technical plan, cross-workstream dependencies and technical risk across multiple FDE workstreams building on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.
Drive workstreams from engineering readiness through integration, release, production cutover, and operational handoff, resolving blockers across customer and Snowflake engineering teams. Lead release and production cutover of Snowflake-based data and AI solutions.
Identify and prioritize customer-driven product gaps and defects, distinguish one-off requirements from recurring product issues, and drive resolution with global Snowflake Product & Engineering teams across time zones.
Give technical estimates, effort and risk input to Engagement Managers and Program Managers to protect delivery feasibility.
Provide commercial awareness of SOW/exhibit scope, change control and delivery done at risk.
Identify scope changes, delivery-at-risk decisions, and emerging technical constraints; provide the impact assessment needed by Engagement Managers to manage SOW scope and change control.
Report technical status clearly to Snowflake and customer stakeholders, from engineering teams to executives.
Use AI-assisted workflows, including Snowflake Cortex capabilities, to improve delivery tooling and execution.
Help establish the FDE Technical Program Management practice in ANZ.