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Principal Technical Architect – AI/ML

Backend EngineerSoftware EngineerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 5,001-10,000Since 2012Company SiteLinkedIn

Location

New York

Posted

7 days ago

Salary

$196K - $257.2K / year

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor Degree12 yrs expEnglishCloud

Job Description

Principal Technical Architect – AI/ML

Snowflake

• Develop reusable solution patterns, global reference architectures, and practice-wide white papers. • Modernize legacy stacks (Netezza, Teradata, Exadata) into Snowflake AI workloads using deep architectural knowledge. • Act as a trusted technical advisor to C-suite stakeholders, bridging business strategy with AI execution. • Solve for LLM robustness, including managing prompt safety, hallucinations, and latency at enterprise scale. • Gen AI Robustness: Architect enterprise-grade guardrails for LLMs, ensuring safety and performance. • Legacy Transformation: Facilitate high-complexity data migrations from on-prem legacy systems into AI-ready cloud environments. • Strategic Risk Management: Determine technical approaches for assignments that impact regional or global design success.

Job Requirements

  • Typically requires 12+ years of related experience with a Bachelor's; or 8 years with a Master's.
  • Expert reputation in the AI/ML community and the Snowflake ecosystem.
  • Visionary thinker with the ability to influence regional practice strategy and create regional frameworks.
  • Adoption rate of authored assets; Performance in "must-win" strategic accounts; Regional practice influence.
  • Strong executive communication: Ability to present complex AI/ML concepts and ROI to technical and business audiences.

Benefits

  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • life
  • disability insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • flexible spending & health savings account
  • at least 12 paid holidays
  • paid time off
  • parental leave
  • employee assistance program
  • other company benefits

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