Principal Architect, Global Manufacturing CTO

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. We are a visionary and an innovative industry expert team and drive a track record of architecting, building, and taking solutions to market that are applicable to various sub verticals in the industry, across discrete and processes. There is only one Data Cloud. Snowflake’s founders started from scratch and designed a data platform built for the cloud that is effective, affordable, and accessible to all data users. But it didn’t stop there. They engineered Snowflake to power the Data Cloud, where thousands of organizations unlock the value of their data with near-unlimited scale, concurrency, and performance. This is our vision: a world with endless insights to tackle the challenges and opportunities of today and reveal the possibilities of tomorrow. Are you passionate about taking new ideas and innovation to market? Have you successfully applied technology to solve business problems in the Manufacturing industry? If so, we have a strategic opportunity to use your expertise across Data, Cloud and AI to drive transformational changes in the Manufacturing industry in a highly visible role collaborating with internal and external leadership. 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. You will act as a visionary and an innovative industry expert and have the opportunity to apply your successful track record of architecting, building, and taking solutions to market that are applicable to various sub verticals in the industry, across the Manufacturing ecosystem and critical workloads in our customer footprint. IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO: - 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 and enterprise data architects at customer 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 manufacturing 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, demo showcases that embed AI/ML and agentic flows into solutions for the manufacturing industry. - Drive repeatability and scale: You'll lead strategic initiatives by building repeatable solution assets and frameworks 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 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 industry needs and customer requiremen