diff --git a/flytekit/types/structured/snowflake.py b/flytekit/types/structured/snowflake.py
index 5af2a93430..050a77bfb8 100644
--- a/flytekit/types/structured/snowflake.py
+++ b/flytekit/types/structured/snowflake.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def get_private_key():
 
     import flytekit
 
-    pk_string = flytekit.current_context().secrets.get(TASK_TYPE, "private_key", encode_mode="rb")
+    pk_string = flytekit.current_context().secrets.get(SNOWFLAKE, "private_key", encode_mode="rb")
     p_key = serialization.load_pem_private_key(pk_string, password=None, backend=default_backend())
 
     pkb = p_key.private_bytes(