Senior Business Systems Analyst

Snowflake•Dublin, CA

8d•$144,000 - $189,000

About The Position

Snowflake is hiring a Senior Business Systems Analyst for its Spend Management Ops team. The team supports Accounts Payable, Travel & Expense, Procurement Contracts, Sourcing, and Procurement by building AI-driven solutions, managing project delivery, stewarding supporting data, and developing roadmaps. It is being built from the ground up, with analysts partnering with domain teams to co-own roadmaps and shape solutions rather than simply responding to requests. This IC4 individual-contributor role calls for deep, hands-on experience in either Travel & Expense or Procurement & Sourcing, together with the ability to work across business processes and technical systems. The analyst will take on ambiguous, higher-risk work, help determine what should be built, and translate domain knowledge into process improvements, automation, and AI-driven solutions. Success involves shaping priorities, delivering with minimal guidance, setting technical patterns for the domain, and influencing colleagues across the team.

Requirements

Deep, hands-on experience in Travel & Expense or Procurement & Sourcing, sufficient to be credible with practitioners in that domain.
Ability to work across business processes and technical design, including with domain teams and Engineering, ET, or BI.
Track record of delivering solutions to ambiguous problems, such as process redesign, workflow automation, or AI-driven tooling, with minimal guidance.
Experience partnering with cross-functional teams, including ET, Engineering, BI, and vendors, to deliver end-to-end solutions.
Experience with data validation and production support.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain difficult tradeoffs or escalations clearly enough to support confident decisions.
Comfort operating in ambiguity and building processes as work progresses.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with Snowflake, SQL, Streamlit, or other data and AI tools used to build and steward Spend Management systems.

Responsibilities

Take on higher-ambiguity, higher-risk work in Travel & Expense or Procurement & Sourcing with minimal hand-holding.
Proactively manage cross-team dependencies with Engineering, BI, and supported domain teams.
Unblock other people's delivery as well as deliver individual work.
Shape stakeholder requests and advise on prioritization tradeoffs, including explaining when not to pursue a request.
Operate as a de facto extension of the supported domain team.
Scope and deliver solutions to ambiguous problems, including process redesign, automation, and AI-driven tooling.
Evaluate whether the underlying process should change before recommending a system build.
Establish technical patterns for the domain that are adopted by others on the team.
Resolve ambiguity independently, escalating only genuinely difficult decisions with a well-framed recommendation.
Frame decisions so colleagues can reuse the same reasoning.
Mentor or unblock colleagues in adjacent domains and introduce approaches adopted elsewhere on the team.
Serve as a go-to resource for a specific class of Travel & Expense or Procurement & Sourcing problems.