Principal Security Architect, Applied Field Engineering

About the role

Snowflake's Solution Engineering organization is seeking a Principal Security Architect to join its APJ Field CTO office. The role acts as a security evangelist, architect and hands-on subject matter expert, cultivating customer and partnership relationships, demonstrating thought leadership and acting as a trusted security advisor to current and potential customers.

Key responsibilities

• Help scope security-related feature enhancements with Product Management and share industry best practices and Snowflake platform features.
• Assist in clarifying concepts of data engineering, data warehousing, data collaboration, AI and machine learning, and build demos and prototypes with Snowflake and integrated solutions.
• Engage with internal Snowflake stakeholders and partner with Sales, Product, Engineering, Marketing and Support to drive customer security feature adoption.
• Partner with Product Marketing on Snowflake's AI and Data Cloud posture, including security Data Lake workload awareness and pipeline building through conferences, trade shows and events.
• Work with other Field CTO members on Enterprise AI, Gen AI, Data Engineering and Applications, and partner with the product team shaping the Snowflake Data Marketplace.
• Share knowledge with internal and industry communities via webinars and conferences.

Required profile

• 10+ years of industry, customer-facing, hands-on implementation experience focused on data, privacy, governance, networking, infosec and security.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Management Systems or a related field; Master's preferred.
• Ability to communicate security and risk concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, and to work across APJ time zones.

Required skills

• Security concepts such as RBAC, OAuth, IAM, encryption and data governance.
• Hands-on experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP) and its security, encryption and networking.
• Demos, CSP environment configuration, prototyping and testing on Snowflake and CSP integrations.
• Reference architectures, security best practices and hardening guides.
• Security frameworks such as NIST, CIS, OWASP and MITRE ATT&CK.
• Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, NAT, firewalls) and identity management (SAML, SCIM, RBAC).