Principal Technical Architect - Ai/ml

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · NY-New York City, United States · Remote · Professional Services

Principal Technical Architect - AI/ML role focused on resolving critical design matters for legacy modernization and Generative AI, acting as a technical advisor to C-suite stakeholders, and architecting enterprise-grade guardrails for LLMs.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop reusable solution patterns, global reference architectures, and practice-wide white papers.
  2. Modernize legacy stacks (Netezza, Teradata, Exadata) into Snowflake AI workloads using deep architectural knowledge.
  3. Act as a trusted technical advisor to C-suite stakeholders, bridging business strategy with AI execution.
  4. Solve for LLM robustness, including managing prompt safety, hallucinations, and latency at enterprise scale.

Skills

Required

  • 12+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's; or 8 years with a Master's.
  • Expertise in AI/ML
  • Expertise in Snowflake ecosystem
  • Architectural knowledge
  • Executive communication

Nice to have

  • Experience with Netezza, Teradata, Exadata modernization

What the JD emphasized

  • Expert reputation in the AI/ML community and the Snowflake ecosystem.
  • Visionary thinker with the ability to influence regional practice strategy and create regional frameworks.
  • Adoption rate of authored assets; Performance in "must-win" strategic accounts; Regional practice influence.
  • Strong executive communication: Ability to present complex AI/ML concepts and ROI to technical and business audiences.

Other signals

  • Architect enterprise-grade guardrails for LLMs
  • managing prompt safety, hallucinations, and latency at enterprise scale
  • modernize legacy stacks into Snowflake AI workloads
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor to C-suite stakeholders, bridging business strategy with AI execution