Fivetran

Lead Cloud Onboarding Architect

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10 hours ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
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Base Salary

$180k - $225k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead Guided Setup for complex and strategically important enterprise accounts across data warehouse and repository configuration, SSO, RBAC/SCIM, and user access.
  • Serve as the senior technical escalation point for PrivateLink, OAuth, SSO, networking, identity, and other setup issues that threaten onboarding timelines.
  • Work directly with customer technical stakeholders and administrators to assess environments, identify risks, and guide successful configuration.
  • Make scoping decisions between Guided Setup, Customer Solutions Engineering, Product, and post-onboarding work.
  • Mentor and coach Cloud Onboarding Architect I/II team members on troubleshooting, platform expertise, and customer-facing skills.
  • Own and improve Guided Setup checklists, playbooks, kickoff materials, troubleshooting guidance, and internal documentation.
  • Identify recurring customer-engagement patterns and drive improvements through processes, tooling, documentation, enablement, or product feedback.
  • Represent setup-related bugs, feature requests, onboarding UX feedback, and enterprise customer needs to Engineering, Product, and Design.
  • Collaborate with Customer Solutions Engineering and Training on setup boundaries, post-onboarding utilization, and enablement content.
  • Use customer feedback, engagement experience, and data to improve setup time and activation readiness.

Requirements

  • Deep hands-on dbt experience as an account administrator and data practitioner, with 2–3 years minimum.
  • Prior experience as a Cloud Onboarding Architect, Implementation Consultant, or directly equivalent role.
  • Administrator-level fluency with Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Okta, Entra ID, and Google identity providers.
  • Experience with SSO, SAML, OAuth, data warehouse and repository configuration, and identity administration.
  • A track record of mentoring or coaching less experienced teammates on technical and soft skills.
  • Ability to own ambiguous cross-functional problems, create repeatable playbooks, and balance technical correctness with customer timelines and priorities.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for working with Engineering, Product, customer executives, and technical stakeholders.
  • Experience delivering tailored, high-quality customer onboarding experiences based on account size and strategic importance.
  • Preferred experience with PrivateLink or other secure connectivity patterns.
  • Preferred experience creating internal enablement content or documentation.
  • Familiarity with Rocketlane or similar project and time-tracking tools.
  • dbt Architect certification is a bonus qualification.

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance, subject to country and worker type.
  • Paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.
  • RSU stock grants.
  • Professional development and training opportunities.
  • Company virtual happy hours, free food, and team-building activities.
  • Monthly cell phone stipend.
  • Access to a mental health support platform offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness resources.
  • Remote role as indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftAWSAzureDatabricksdbtGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformSnowflakeSQL

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Fivetran

About Fivetran

1,001-5,000 employees

Fivetran builds a managed data integration platform that extracts data from hundreds of SaaS apps and databases and loads it into cloud data warehouses for analytics and AI teams. Sold as a subscription SaaS service, it provides prebuilt connectors, automated schema management, and ELT/replication to destinations like Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, and Redshift. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Oakland, it serves customers such as Autodesk, Condé Nast, JetBlue, and Morgan Stanley.

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