Principal Industry Architect, Snowflake
FINS
$249.6-327.6k
OTE
$187.2-245.7k
BASE
+ Snowflake’s equity plan
3-5 days a week in office
AI Data Cloud for data sharing and app building
Be an early applicant
AI Data Cloud for data sharing and app building
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$249.6-327.6k
OTE
$187.2-245.7k
BASE
+ Snowflake’s equity plan
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
On a mission to mobilize the world's data.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of architecture experience building, consulting to, and/or implementing technology for core banking and/or financial services organizations
- Expert in financial services data topics and well-versed in the overall challenges and opportunities impacting the industry; ability to map data requirements and processes for the major functional areas of core banking (Retail & Commercial Lending, Payments, Treasury, Risk & Compliance, Finance)
- Ability to consultatively engage with customers to understand pain points, challenges, and come up with right-fit solution architecture using the latest data and AI technologies
- 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 financial services — including credit scoring, fraud detection, and AML/transaction monitoring
- Familiarity with key sources of enterprise financial services data and technologies including core banking platforms (e.g., Temenos, FIS, Fiserv, Finacle), risk and compliance systems, actuarial tools (e.g., ResQ, Remetrica), payment networks, CRMs, and third-party data providers
- Understanding of financial services regulatory and compliance frameworks (Basel III/IV, DORA, IFRS 9/17, Solvency II, BCBS 239, AML/KYC, NAIC, state DOI reporting) and the data demands they create
- Outstanding presentation skills to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to architects, engineering leaders, risk officers, operations leaders, business executives, and regulatory stakeholders
- Experience working with senior executives and an ability to quickly establish credibility with senior leadership
- Bachelor's Degree required; Master's Degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, finance, actuarial science, 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
What the job involves
- Snowflake is seeking a seasoned Financial Services 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 banks, financial services organizations to modernize core systems, unify transactional and risk data, and translate business priorities into scalable technical architectures and measurable business outcomes
- You will act as a visionary and innovative industry expert with the opportunity to apply your successful track record of architecting, building, and taking solutions to market applicable to various sub-verticals across the financial services ecosystem and critical workloads in our customer footprint
- Partner with customers on strategic opportunities: You will drive customer engagement in strategic deals where your industry expertise can help drive Snowflake adoption. You'll build trusted relationships with executives, chief data officers, chief risk officers, and enterprise data architects at banks and finance organizations, acting as a trusted advisor who blends business and technical context to advance opportunities
- Innovate and design solutions: Working with the Industry GTM team, you'll translate core banking use cases, challenges, and opportunities into data-driven and AI-powered solutions and architecture. This includes creating end-to-end architectures and future-state blueprints, and demo showcases that embed AI/ML and agentic flows into solutions such as fraud detection, credit risk modeling, regulatory reporting, and customer 360
- Drive repeatability and scale: You'll lead strategic initiatives by building repeatable enterprise architectures and solution assets for the banking industry that can be leveraged for global adoption. Your deliverables will include persona use case journeys and system/application architecture, demo showcases that integrate Snowflake into a customer's broader financial services solutions portfolio and ecosystem. You'll also 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 banking industry needs and customer requirements to help shape Snowflake's product roadmap
- Be a thought leader: Drive technical thought leadership for the financial services industry through blogs, talks, and field enablement. You will also be a key contributor to industry marketing activities including webinars and conferences such as Money20/20, Sibos, InsureTech Connect, and LIMRA
- Technical Industry Overview and Architecture:How is the banking industry adopting Snowflake, and which industry value drivers does Snowflake attach to?
- Technical Use Case Overviews:Extend use case presentations with how financial services use cases might be addressed — including technical architectures and key decision points for risk, compliance, banking, and lending workloads
- Ecosystem partner engagement:Does the customer need interface or vendor guidance with financial services ecosystem partners (e.g., FIS, Fiserv, Temenos, Verisk, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, MSCI)? Is there an ecosystem participant without a Data Cloud presence we should introduce to the wider Snowflake team? We can facilitate these conversations and advocate for the customer and the vendor
- Solution architecture and review:Snowflake has a diverse ecosystem of financial services industry participants with domain-specific solutions to a wide range of use cases; domain-specific architecture reviews play a key role
- Strategic stakeholder alignment:C-level and direct reports may require strategic, longer-running relationships that maintain consistency and alignment across business units and use cases — particularly in large global banks. The Industry Architect role can help maintain global consistency of vision and assist individual geographies
- Strong alignment with the Financial Services Industry Team
- Technical industry trend PoV:Data Mesh, Data Vault, GenAI, Data Lakes vs. Warehouses vs. Lakehouses — view these technical trends through a financial services lens, including case studies on real-time fraud detection, open banking data sharing, and regulatory data lineage
- Snowdays: Bring in the wider team to complement the customer's point of view with a broader industry perspective, including bespoke solution/lab setups for banking
- RFP support: Some RFPs have a financial services industry backdrop and may request information on the Financial Services Data Cloud, or otherwise require a perspective on specific regulatory, risk, or operational topics
Our take
Developed as a fresh alternative to the archaic systems of data governance and information silos, Snowflake is a frictionless cloud data platform that removes the barriers preventing organisations of all sizes from unleashing the true value of their data.
The company equips organizations with a single, integrated platform that offers the only data warehouse built for the cloud; instant, secure and governed access to their entire network of data; and a core architecture to enable many types of data workloads, including a single platform for developing modern data applications.
Major competitors include Azure, SQL and AWS, and Snowflake has managed to keep ahead of the competition, cementing itself as a global force. Across its 1300+ partners, the company's cloud manages over 250PB of data (with more than 515 million data workloads running every day). Its continued focus on product R&D and partnership expansion have Snowflake well-positioned to manage itself amidst the competition.
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Insights
37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Feb 2020
$479m
SERIES G
Oct 2018
$450m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.4bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance plans
- Health savings accounts
- Robust retirement plans
- Life and disability insurance
- Weekly online lunch and learns
- Virtual workout classes
- Ergonomic work-from-home equipment
- On-demand mental health and wellness programs
- Fertility benefits and family planning resources
- Generous time-off and various leave plans
- Onsite and Remote Work
- Employee discounts and pre-tax selections
- New hire equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
- Quarterly bonus or commission program
Company HQ
Menlo Park, CA
Leadership
Benoit Dageville
(Co-Founder & President of Product)Benoit, a leading expert in parallel execution and self-tuning databases, founded Snowflake after 10+ years at Oracle as a lead architect. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has 270+ patents.
Thierry Cruanes
(Co-Founder)Thierry is a leading expert in query optimization and parallel execution. He has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus in Database Systems and is a named inventor on 200+ patents.
Sridhar Ramaswamy
(Chief Executive Officer)Sridhar joined Snowflake in 2023 via the Neeva acquisition as SVP of AI and later became CEO. He co-founded Neeva and previously led Google’s Ads business, growing it from $1.5B to $100B.
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