Principal Technical Architect - AI/ML

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. PRINCIPAL TECHNICAL ARCHITECT - AI/ML LEAD. STRATEGIZE. TRANSFORM. SUMMARY: Recognized expert and strategic technical advisor resolving critical, wide-ranging design matters for legacy modernization and Generative AI. WHY THIS ROLE? You act as the technical "North Star" for high-stakes migrations. You exercise wide latitude in determining objectives and approaches to critical assignments with high business impact. WHAT YOU’LL DO: - Develop reusable solution patterns, global reference architectures, and practice-wide white papers. - Modernize legacy stacks (Netezza, Teradata, Exadata) into Snowflake AI workloads using deep architectural knowledge. - Act as a trusted technical advisor to C-suite stakeholders, bridging business strategy with AI execution. - Solve for LLM robustness, including managing prompt safety, hallucinations, and latency at enterprise scale. - Gen AI Robustness: Architect enterprise-grade guardrails for LLMs, ensuring safety and performance. - Legacy Transformation: Facilitate high-complexity data migrations from on-prem legacy systems into AI-ready cloud environments. - Strategic Risk Management: Determine technical approaches for assignments that impact regional or global design success. SNOWFLAKE-NATIVE TECH STACK: Vector Data Types, Snowflake Cortex,

Department: Professional Services; Team: Professional Services