Industry Architect – Retail & Consumer Goods

About the role

Snowflake is seeking a Retail & Consumer Goods Industry Architect to join our Field CTO organization. This role involves leading strategic customer engagements, partnering with various stakeholders, and shaping how Snowflake shows up in Retail & Consumer Goods.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic customer engagements
• Partner with CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, digital leaders, merchandising leaders, supply chain teams, marketing and loyalty leaders, store operations leaders, and data/AI teams on high-impact initiatives tied to business value.
• Translate retail and CPG challenges into end-to-end architectures
• Turn real industry problems into clear solution patterns and roadmaps, including demand sensing and replenishment, inventory and fulfillment optimization, store and field operations, loyalty and customer intelligence, retail media and monetization, pricing, promotion, and assortment, customer care and service workflows, product, catalog, and content intelligence, revenue growth and commercial planning
• Design agentic and AI-powered business workflows
• Help customers move beyond dashboards and isolated models toward named agents, copilots, and decision-support experiences embedded in real workflows across digital and physical channels.
• Architect the "last mile" experience
• Create hands-on reference implementations that bring the story to life using Snowflake capabilities such as Cortex, Snowflake Intelligence, Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, semantic models/views, Streamlit, and related ecosystem integrations.
• Create reusable, field-ready assets
• Build compelling prototypes and demonstrations
• Shape Snowflake’s Retail & Consumer Goods point of view
• Collaborate with Industry GTM, product marketing, product management, sales, and solution engineering to sharpen Snowflake’s perspective on modern retail and consumer goods architecture, especially as AI becomes embedded into core business workflows.
• Surface industry trends, design gaps, and product requirements to help influence Snowflake’s roadmap and improve how our platform supports retail and CPG workloads.
• Enable others and scale your impact

Requirements

10+ years of experience building, consulting on, or implementing technology for Retail & Consumer Goods organizations or business units

Strong understanding of Retail & Consumer Goods data domains, systems, and processes

Familiarity with structured and unstructured data patterns, semantic layers, and text-to-SQL or search-driven experiences

Experience designing enterprise data, analytics, AI, and application architectures

Experience building or guiding data and AI applications such as Streamlit apps, internal tools, copilots, agent experiences, or workflow applications

Understanding of ecosystem tools and partners commonly found in retail and consumer goods environments

Experience with public cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

Strong presentation and communication skills across technical and executive audiences

Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, business, or related field preferred

Ability and willingness to travel to customer sites, industry events, and related meetings as needed

Qualifications

Fluent in Retail and Consumer Goods

Architect at heart, storyteller by nature

Hands-on with data and AI

Fluent in modern AI patterns

Customer-facing and outcomes-oriented

Collaborative by default