Principal Architect, Global Manufacturing CTO

About the Role

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.

What You Will Do

• 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, acting as a trusted advisor who blends business and technical context to advance opportunities.
• Innovate and design solutions: Working with the Industry GTM team, 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, system/application architecture, and demo showcases that integrate Snowflake into a customer's broader solutions portfolio. Scale 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.