# Principal Data Cloud Architect - SI Partners

**Company:** [Snowflake](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/snowflake)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $189k – $248k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Snowflake, Cortex Ai, Snowflake Ml, Python, SQL, Kubernetes, Docker, MLOps, SageMaker, AWS
**Posted:** 2026-02-17

> Empowers SI partners to accelerate AI/ML deployments on Snowflake AI Data Cloud through strategic alignment, joint solutions, hands-on expertise in Cortex AI and ML, and mentoring. Requires 10+ years experience including 5+ in pre-sales and SI background.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- **Strategic Account Alignment**: Identify and prioritize AI/ML customer journeys for SI partner top accounts, support RFI/RFP processes and POCs, develop rapid deployment frameworks.
- **SI Partner Practice Building**: Create Partner Snowflake Centers of Excellence (COE), drive capability maturity, deliver webinars and roadmap sessions.
- **Joint Solutions**: Build Partner-led AI/ML solutions, create assets like templates and code samples, align customer journeys with partner offerings.
- **AI/ML Expertise**: Enable Cortex AI (LLM, Fine Tuning, Search, Analyst), support end-to-end ML development and MLOps with Snowflake ML, advise on unstructured data analytics.
- Mentor junior cloud architects on AI/ML engagements with SI partners.

## Requirements

- Experience at a large System Integrator accelerating technical wins and deployments.
- Extensive experience with cloud data platforms (preferably Snowflake).
- Hands-on with Cloud ML platforms (Sagemaker, Azure ML, VertexAI, MLFlow).
- Building/deploying ML pipelines with serverless/containerized computing (AWS Lambda, Docker, Kubernetes).
- MLOps/CI/CD (GIT, Azure DevOps, etc.).
- AI/ML use cases, Big Data/Cloud integration (Matillion, Azure Data Factory, AWS Glue).
- Full Data Science lifecycle, data science languages (Python, SQL, Scala, Spark).
- Major clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP), strong CS fundamentals.
- **10+ years industry experience**, minimum **5 years in pre-sales**.
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related.

**Nice-to-Haves**:
- Knowledge of competitive AI/ML platforms.

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