Industry Architect, Life Sciences

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As an Industry Architect on the Industry and Data/AI Architect teams at Snowflake, you'll be a trusted technical partner who helps drive industry-specific data and AI transformation for customers and partners. Your goal is to help customers unlock measurable business value by adopting and building on Snowflake's AI Data Cloud.

As an Industry Architect for the Life Sciences, you’ll combine your deep expertise across business functions in this industry with modern AI and data architecture knowledge to guide customers and create data-driven and AI-powered solutions. You'll lead with an architectural vision that is anchored in persona-driven journeys and help win new business through your combination of technology and industry leadership.

You’ll report to the Director of Industry Architects and work closely with the Industry Go-to-Market (GTM) POD team to co‑own account strategy and execution.

• Partner with customers on strategic opportunities: You will drive customer engagement in strategic deals where your industry expertise can help drive Snowflake adoption. You’ll build trusted relationships with executives, Line of Business per and enterprise data architects at customer organizations, acting as a trusted advisor who blends business and technical context to advance opportunities.
• Innovate and design solutions: Working with the Industry principals, you'll translate life sciences use cases, challenges, and opportunities into data-driven and AI-powered solutions and architecture. This includes creating end-to-end architectures and future-state blueprints, demo showcases that embed AI/ML and agentic flows into solutions for the industry.
• Drive repeatability and scale: You'll lead strategic initiatives by building repeatable solution assets and frameworks that can be leveraged for global adoption. Your deliverables will include persona use case journeys and system/application architecture, demo showcases that integrate Snowflake into a customer's broader solutions portfolio and ecosystem. You'll also scale your expertise through field enablement and by creating workshops and playbooks.
• Influence the product roadmap: Act as a conduit to the product teams, providing structured feedback based on industry needs and customer requirements to help shape Snowflake's product roadmap.
• Be a thought leader: Drive technical thought leadership for the life science industry through blogs, talks, and field enablement. You will also be a key contributor to industry marketing activities including webinars and conferences.

• 10+ years of architecture experience building, consulting to, or implementing technology for life sciences companies. Experience working directly on RWE, Med Devices and/or drug discovery/research is a plus.
• Deep expertise in the Life Sciences industry, with an excellent understanding of data topics across business functions - exposure to multi-modal pharma/life sciences data is mandatory.
• Strong knowledge of data science and machine learning concepts and their application in the LS industry.
• Broad range of experience with technical and design direction including large-scale database and/or data warehouse technology, ETL, analytics and public cloud technologies.
• Strong knowledge of SQL, Python with hands‑on experience is required. Experience in Java, Scala, or other languages is a plus.
• 3+ years of Cloud Provider (AWS, Azure or GCP) customer facing architecture development experience.
• Experience in a customer-facing role, with outstanding presentation skills for both technical and executive audiences.
• Collaborate with other cross functional specialist teams such as product marketing, AI specialists, partner teams, product and platform architecture to build end to end messaging for industry use cases.
• The ability to act as a trusted advisor and establish credibility with…