--- title: 'Technical Architect, Migrations at Snowflake' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/technical-architect-migrations-snowflake-melbourne-6f993dha5gjb' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-30' --- # Technical Architect, Migrations at Snowflake - **Company:** [Snowflake](https://feeny.ai/companies/snowflake) - **Location:** Melbourne, Australia - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-30 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-30 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/527f30a7-edf5-43f4-b573-7df77987e5d8 ## Job description 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. Technical Architect, Migrations Location: AU-Melbourne / AU-Sydney | Team: Professional Services 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, rapidly testing 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. Snowflake is about empowering enterprises to achieve their full potential, and people too. With a culture that's all in on impact, innovation, and collaboration, Snowflake is the sweet spot for building big, moving fast, and taking technology and careers to the next level. Our Professional Services Migrations team helps customers across Australia and New Zealand move their most important data workloads from legacy platforms to the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. As a Technical Architect, you will be the hands-on technical lead on migration projects. You will design the target architecture and guide customers and partners from assessment through to go-live. AS A TECHNICAL ARCHITECT, MIGRATIONS AT SNOWFLAKE, YOU WILL: - Lead the technical design of migrations from Teradata, Oracle, Netezza, SQL Server, Hadoop and other legacy platforms to Snowflake, covering data, code, pipelines and security. - Run migration assessments, analyse legacy code and workloads, and produce clear migration plans, estimates and target architectures. - Use SnowConvert and Snowflake migration accelerators to automate SQL, stored procedure and ETL conversion, and guide teams on the parts that need manual work. - Modernise data pipelines with Snowpark, Dynamic Tables, Snowpipe, and Streams and Tasks, and design for performance, cost and governance on Snowflake. - Plan and run data validation, performance testing and cutover so customers move to production with confidence. - Act as the trusted technical advisor to customer architects, engineering leaders and SI partners, and solve complex technical issues on site and remotely. - Support Professional Services sales by scoping migration work, reviewing code assessments and shaping Statements of Work. - Turn lessons from the field into reusable migration patterns, accelerators and best practices, and share feedback with Snowflake Product and Engineering. OUR IDEAL TECHNICAL ARCHITECT, MIGRATIONS WILL HAVE: - 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing or database architecture, including customer-facing consulting or delivery work. - Hands-on experience leading at least one large data warehouse or database migration to a cloud data platform. - Deep SQL skills and strong knowledge of data modeling, performance tuning and data warehouse design. - Experience with ETL/ELT tools such as Informatica, DataStage, Talend, dbt or similar, and with orchestration and pipeline design. - Programming experience in Python, Java or Scala. - Working knowledge of at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud). - Clear communication with technical teams and business stakeholders, including leading workshops and presenting recommendations. - Ability to travel to customer sites within Australia and New Zealand as needed. ## BONUS POINTS FOR THE FOLLOWING: - SnowPro Core or SnowPro Advanced Architect certification. - Experience with SnowConvert or other automated code conversion tools. - Experience using GenAI or Snowflake Cortex AI to speed up code conversion, testing or data validation. - Background in Teradata, Oracle Exadata or Hadoop administration or development. - Experience working with SI partners on large delivery programs. WHY JOIN OUR TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE? You will help some of the largest organisations in Australia and New Zealand move off legacy systems and get the full value of their data on Snowflake. You will work on complex, high-impact technical problems, learn from a global community of migration experts, and help shape the tools and methods Snowflake uses to deliver migrations around the world. How do you want to make your impact? 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? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: [careers.snowflake.com](http://careers.snowflake.com) ## About Snowflake ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Snowflake provides an AI Data Cloud platform that enables enterprises to store, analyze, and securely share their data across multiple clouds and geographies. - **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: SNOW) - **Headquarters**: Bozeman, Montana, United States - **Founded**: 2012 - **Founders**: Not explicitly listed in the provided search results (widely known co-founders include Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Zukowski – not verified in these search results) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Enterprise software, cloud data platform - **Target Customers**: B2B, including large enterprises (e.g., hundreds of the world’s largest companies), mid-market, and SMBs - **Mission**: “To Mobilize the World’s Data” (Glassdoor) and “empower every enterprise to achieve its full potential through data and AI” (Snowflake Careers page) ## Products & Services - **Snowflake AI Data Cloud**: A unified, multi-cloud platform that combines data warehousing, data lakes, data sharing, and AI/ML capabilities. Customers can discover, share, and analyze data while running analytic workloads across public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP). - **Snowflake Marketplace**: A marketplace for discovering and accessing third‑party data sets and applications. - **Snowflake‑Powered Applications**: Platform for building and deploying data‑intensive applications. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not directly provided in search results (as a public company, market cap fluctuates and is available on financial websites). - **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue – $1 to $5 billion (USD) per Glassdoor. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly mentioned in the search results (historically backed by Sequoia Capital, Dragoneer, etc. – not verified here). - **Growth Signals**: - Named #1 on the 2023 Fortune Future 50 List ([Fortune.com](https://fortune.com)) - Listed as a U.S. Best Large Place to Work by BuiltIn in 2024 - Recognized as one of the “20 Coolest Cloud Software Companies” by CRN in 2022 and 2024 - Headcount of 5,001–10,000 employees with 30 global locations; actively hiring - Revenue range $1B–$5B indicates strong scale ## Competitive Advantages - **Multi‑Cloud Flexibility**: Operates across AWS, Azure, and GCP, avoiding vendor lock‑in. - **Unified Data Experience**: One platform for data sharing, analytics, and AI, reducing silos. - **Separation of Compute and Storage**: Allows independent scaling and cost efficiency (not detailed in provided sources, but a known differentiator). - **Strong Ecosystem**: Data marketplace and extensive partner network. ## Strategic Focus - **AI & Data Innovation**: The company’s current emphasis is on making “enterprise AI easy, efficient, and trusted” and integrating AI capabilities into the Data Cloud. - **Global Expansion**: Active hiring across 30 locations indicates continued geographic growth. - **Customer‑Centric Development**: Focus on empowering enterprises to achieve “full potential through data and AI.” ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as “driven by innovation, low egos, high bars, and collaboration” (Snowflake Careers page). Glassdoor rating of 3.9/5 overall (78% approve CEO). - **Work‑Life Balance**: Glassdoor rates Work/Life Balance at 3.7/5; many remote and hybrid roles available (see Indeed listings). - **Benefits**: “Benefits & Beyond” program includes competitive compensation, equity, career advancement programs, and commitment to pay equality and veteran hiring. - **Engineering Focus**: Hiring process includes 2–4 week timeline with technical interviews; the company values impactful, project‑based work for all roles, including interns. - **Recognition**: Named a Best Large Place to Work (BuiltIn 2024) and future‑focused by Fortune, signaling strong employer brand. ## Sources 1. [Snowflake Careers Overview](https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en) 2. [Life at Snowflake](https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en/snowflake-life) 3. [Snowflake on Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Snowflake-EI_IE928471.11,20.htm) 4. [Snowflake Hiring Process](https://careers.snowflake.com/us/en/gethired) 5. [Snowflake on Indeed](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Snowflake-7f4a7fba) 6. 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