Fivetran

Staff Solutions Architect

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10 hours ago
Remote, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical discovery covering business drivers, technical context, constraints, decision processes, and success criteria.
  • Run product demonstrations, workshops, evaluations, and proof-oriented engagements mapping dbt capabilities to customer problems.
  • Design solution architectures spanning dbt, warehouses, orchestration, BI, governance, and adjacent ecosystem tooling.
  • Partner with account teams on qualification, technical win criteria, risks, next steps, and forecast accuracy.
  • Advise analytics engineers, data engineers, architects, and technical decision-makers on architecture and technical strategy.
  • Support customer adoption and expansion by connecting technical outcomes to additional use cases and long-term platform value.
  • Create reusable demos, templates, write-ups, patterns, and technical assets for other Solutions Architects.
  • Influence how dbt-centric architecture patterns are defined, scaled, and reused across accounts and territories.

Requirements

  • Experience in pre-sales, solutions architecture, sales engineering, or a comparable 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.
  • Ability to balance deal support with long-term architectural quality in ambiguous and changing environments.
  • Evidence of mentoring peers or creating assets and practices that improve team effectiveness.
  • Strong executive communication, technical storytelling, and written documentation skills.

Benefits

  • 100% employer-paid medical insurance, subject to country and worker-type variation.
  • 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.
  • Virtual happy hours, free food, and team-building activities.
  • Monthly cell phone stipend.
  • Mental health support platform with therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness resources for covered employees and dependents.

Tech Stack

dbtSQL

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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