Principal Security Architect, Field CTO (Applied Field Engineering)

Principal Security Architect, Field CTO (Applied Field Engineering) Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential — and people too. With a culture that’s all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology — and careers — to the next level. We seek a talented and energetic Principal Security Architect (SA) who believes in and practices security and has an obsession in working with customers, to design and advise on the best security mechanisms, particularly those that would relate to the Snowflake AI & Data Cloud. At Snowflake, Security Architects are passionate about security, often involving tremendous technology challenges that require no simple solutions. SAs exhibit flexibility and willingness to roll up their sleeves and do whatever makes Snowflake and our customers successful. Success requires working collaboratively with a broad range of people inside and outside the company. Our Solution Engineering organisation is seeking a Security Architect to join our APJ Field CTO Office to act as a security evangelist, architect, and hands-on subject matter expert/practitioner. In this role, you will cultivate key customer and partnership relationships, demonstrate thought leadership, and act as a trusted security advisor to current and potential customers. You will also collaborate with internal and external technical and business stakeholders. You must share our passion and vision in helping our customers and partners secure their usage of Snowflake, thrive in a dynamic environment, and have the flexibility and willingness to jump in and get things done. You are equally comfortable in both a business and technical context, interacting with executives and talking shop and deep diving with technical audiences. IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL GET TO: - Help to scope security related feature enhancements on behalf of customers to work with Product Management on ways to improve the product from a security perspective - Assist in clarifying concepts of data engineering, data warehousing, data collaboration, AI and Machine Learning. Share industry best practices, and features in the Snowflake platform; Assist in building demos and prototypes using Snowflake in conjunction with other integrated solutions; Engage with other relevant Snowflake stakeholders internally - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Support in order to drive customer security feature adoption - Work and collaborate with other Field CTO members in areas of: Enterprise AI, Gen AI, Data Engineering, Applications, as a security export you may be involved in collaborative engagements - Partner with the best in the industry product team, helping to shape vision and capabilities for Snowflake Data Marketplace - Share knowledge with internal and industry communities via webinars & conferences ON DAY ONE WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO HAVE: - 10+ years of industry, customer-facing, and hands-on implementation experience with a core focus on data concepts, privacy, governance, networking, infosec and security technologies - Proven experience engaging with CxO-level stakeholders (CISO, CTO, CIO) to articulate Snowflake's security architecture, data protection capabilities, and risk posture in business-aligned terms that drive platform adoption and customer confidence - Strong understanding of security related concepts such as Authentication and Authorisation, Identity and Access Management, Encryption and Data Governance - Expertise and in-depth working knowledge and hands-on experience in cloud platforms (at least one of the following: AWS, Azure, GCP), and its corresponding security, data encryption, and networking architecture and technologies - Ability to build out demos, configure CSP environments, build out prototypes, and test use cases on the Snowflake platform and relevant integrations with CSP services and ... (truncated, view full listing at source)