Principal Security Architect, Field CTO (Applied Field Engineering)

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 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 external security tools

• Ability to create security and networking-related reference architectures, security best practices and hardening guides, and articulate them to a customer audience

• A demonstrated knowledge of security frameworks such as NIST, CIS, OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK and how to articulate controls and security mechanisms within a Risk Assessment centred approach

• Knowledge of ANSI SQL compliant databases and / or data warehousing is preferred

• Knowledge of Gen AI / LLM Security Principles, Threat Modelling and Appropriate Controls

• Strong understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP, IP routing, DNS, Proxies and CSP private networking technologies including NAT, Firewalls, TLS and related design and troubleshooting

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, presentation and whiteboarding skills to a large audience, and the ability to successfully communicate security and risk-related concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences

• Fair understanding of the culture diversity across Asia Pacific Japan region and flexibility of working with customers and colleagues from multiple APJ time zones

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Management Systems, or related field required. Masters preferred

BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING:

• Hands-on expertise with SQL, Python, and APIs

• Hands-on expertise with software containerisation in Kubernetes, including the use of Terraform or similar technologies

• AWS/Azure/GCP security or networking specialty related current/valid certifications

• Any security operations experience in a Security Operations Environment

• Experience in Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) and Infosec Auditing

• Outstanding skills in presenting to both technical and executive audiences, whether impromptu on a whiteboard or using presentations and demos

• Experience selling enterprise SaaS software

Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake.

How do you want to make your impact?

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