Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Engineering Manager role sits at a pivotal intersection in enterprise SaaS: customer migration. For a data platform business, migrations are often the adoption bottleneck, and the listing frames the work as building an AI powered product that can translate and validate complex legacy logic, not just move data. That makes the remit especially relevant to the current wave of SaaS teams applying generative AI to high stakes, production workflows.
From a SaaS career perspective, the scope offers durable experience in building platform capabilities that multiple stakeholders depend on, including product, professional services, partners, and customers. Leading delivery for an AI first migrations engine also develops judgment around quality, reliability, and iteration when the output affects downstream systems. The collaboration model described is typical of large scale SaaS, where success depends on aligning engineering execution with product requirements and real world customer constraints.
This role tends to suit managers who still lean on technical leadership while scaling teams and developing other leaders. It will appeal to professionals motivated by ambiguous problem spaces, cross functional coordination, and building developer or data engineering facing tools where correctness matters as much as velocity.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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.
Snowflake redefined the data landscape over a decade ago by building a Data Cloud with industry-leading performance and price for data at any scale and for multiple workloads: data engineering, data analytics, and AI/ML.
At Snowflake, our biggest opportunity is also our customers' biggest challenge: migration. For every enterprise ready to harness the power of the AI Data Cloud, there lies a complex web of legacy systems that can take years and millions of dollars to untangle. The Migrations team is tasked with a mission of strategic importance: to turn this multi-year roadblock into a streamlined, intelligent, and automated experience. We believe Generative AI is the key. We are building products that don't just move data, but understand and rewrite the logic of entire data applications.
We're seeking a visionary Engineering Manager to own this charter, and build the AI-powered engine that will onboard the next wave of Snowflake customers. Your work will directly impact Snowflake's growth and change the way an entire industry approaches digital transformation.
AS A MANAGER AT SNOWFLAKE YOU WILL LEAD A TEAM OF TALENTED ENGINEERS IN:
Lead a growing team of talented engineers in the design, development and support of our AI-powered migrations product
Deliver products in a fast-paced ecosystem of professional services, partners, and customers that rely heavily on the technology.
Guide the team through an evolving AI ecosystem to build AI-first products.
Support engineers in their career development by providing clear feedback and developing engineering leaders
Translate product requirements into engineering work for your team
Collaborate with other local and global teams/leaders in the Engineering and Product Management organizations
Use your strong foundation as a technical leader to reliably deliver on complex projects while keeping the quality bar high
Foster a culture of creativity and innovation while also promoting practical decision-making
OUR IDEAL SENIOR ENGINEERING MANAGER WILL HAVE:
Extensive experience (10+ years) building and delivering enterprise products
Strong familiarity with data ecosystems (databases, analytics, data engineering, ETL)
Experience building and delivering tools or platforms for data engineers or developers
Proven experience delivering products, particularly those involving AI-powered code translation, developer co-pilots, or complex semantic validation
WHY JOIN OUR MIGRATIONS TEAM AT SNOWFLAKE?
Joining the Migrations product team at Snowflake offers an exceptional opportunity to be at the forefront of data and application modernization, directly impacting customer success by enabling the strategic leveraging of the Snowflake AI Data Cloud. You'll tackle complex, high-value challenges, building essential products and APIs that simplify intricate data ecosystem migrations—from ETL pipelines to applications—for our customers and partners. Your contributions will directly accelerate the adoption of Snowflake, driving significant value and cementing our customers' investment in a modern, AI-ready future.
Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential.
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
