Principal Architect, Global Manufacturing CTO

Role Description

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact.

We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done.

Snowflake is seeking a seasoned Manufacturing Industry Architect with deep, hands-on experience designing and delivering transformation initiatives powered by data, analytics, and AI. The ideal candidate has worked directly with manufacturing organizations to modernize operations, connect enterprise and industrial data, and translate business priorities into scalable technical architectures and business outcomes.

In this role you will get to:

• Partner with customers on strategic opportunities:
• Drive customer engagement in strategic deals where your industry expertise can help drive Snowflake adoption.
• Build trusted relationships with executives and enterprise data architects at customer organizations, acting as a trusted advisor.
• Innovate and design solutions:
• Translate manufacturing use cases, challenges, and opportunities into data-driven and AI-powered solutions and architecture.
• Create end-to-end architectures and future-state blueprints, demo showcases that embed AI/ML and agentic flows into solutions for the manufacturing industry.
• Drive repeatability and scale:
• Lead strategic initiatives by building repeatable solution assets and frameworks for global adoption.
• Deliver persona use case journeys and system/application architecture, demo showcases that integrate Snowflake into a customer's broader solutions portfolio.
• Scale your expertise through field enablement and by creating workshops and playbooks.
• Influence the product roadmap:
• Act as a conduit to the product teams, providing structured feedback based on industry needs and customer requirements.
• Be a thought leader:
• Drive technical thought leadership for the manufacturing industries through blogs, talks, and field enablement.
• Contribute to industry marketing activities including webinars and conferences.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of architecture experience building, consulting to, and/or implementing technology for Manufacturing business units and/or Manufacturing Companies.
• Expert in Manufacturing data topics and well-versed in the overall challenges and opportunities impacting the Manufacturing industry.
• Ability to consultatively engage with customers to understand pain points and challenges.
• Broad range of experience with technical and design direction including large-scale database and/or data warehouse technology, ETL, analytics, and public cloud technologies.
• Understanding of Data Science & Machine Learning concepts and applications in the Manufacturing industry.
• Familiarity with key sources of enterprise data and technologies including ERPs, CRMs, SCMs, MES, SCADA, QMS, LIMS, and others.
• Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
• Experience working with senior executives and an ability to quickly establish credibility with senior leadership.
• Bachelor’s Degree required, Masters Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or related fields, or equivalent experience preferred.
• The ability to travel to customer sites, industry events, and other related events as required.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, Python with hands-on experience is required. Experience in Java, Scala, or other languages is a plus.
• 3+ years of Cloud Provider (AWS, Azure or GCP) customer facing architecture development experience.

Requirements

• Proactive customer guidance.
• Technical Industry Overview and Architecture.
• Technical Use Case Overviews.
• Ecosystem partner engagement.
• Solution architecture and review.
• Strategic stakeholder alignment.
• Strong alignment with the Manufacturing industry Team.
• Technical Industry trend PoV.
• Snowdays.
• RFP support.
• Internal Engagement.
• Partner Engagement.
• Industry Events.

Benefits

• Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data.
• Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties.
• It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.