Staff Solutions Architect

In this role you will lead as a senior pre-sales technical partner, shaping dbt-centered solutions and guiding customers toward measurable outcomes. You’ll work across sales, customers, and partners to design architectures that span dbt, warehouses, orchestration, and BI. You’ll translate complex analytics challenges into pragmatic technical plans and reusable assets. This is a high-ownership, high-impact position with autonomy from day one. You’ll join a mission-driven team focused on making data access simple, reliable, and scalable for enterprise analytics.

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance
• PTO and sick time, parental leave, holidays, volunteer days
• RSU stock grants
• Professional development and training opportunities
• monthly cell phone stipend
• mental health support platform

• Lead technical discovery to understand business drivers and success criteria
• Run product demonstrations, workshops, evaluations, and proof-oriented engagements mapping dbt to customer problems
• Design pragmatic architectures spanning dbt, warehouses, orchestration, BI, governance, and ecosystem tooling
• Partner with account teams on qualification, risks, next steps, and forecast accuracy
• Act as a trusted technical advisor for analytics engineers, data engineers, architects, and decision-makers
• Communicate complex topics clearly to varied audiences
• Support adoption and expansion by linking outcomes to use cases and platform value
• Model dbt values through professionalism, curiosity, accountability, collaboration, and growth mindset
• Deliver reusable demos, templates, and assets for broader adoption
• Build cross-functional partnerships across sales, product, marketing, success, partners, and SA organization
• Influence dbt-centric architecture patterns beyond a single account or territory

• Experience in pre-sales, solutions architecture, or similar customer-facing technical role
• Strong understanding of dbt, analytics engineering, SQL, data transformation, and modern cloud data platforms
• Ability to lead technical strategy in complex enterprise opportunities with multiple stakeholders
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and balancing deal support with architectural quality
• Mentoring, force-multiplying peers, or creating assets that improve team effectiveness
• Strong executive communication, technical storytelling, and written documentation skills

• executive communication
• collaboration
• growth mindset
• dbt
• analytics engineering
• SQL