Resident Architect

Summary

Join dbt Labs' Professional Services team as a Resident Architect (RA) and play a key role in empowering data developers. As an RA, you will drive customer outcomes by leading technical projects, providing architectural consulting, and championing product adoption. You will collaborate with internal teams to ensure seamless customer experiences and provide feedback to improve dbt Labs' products. This role requires 4+ years of experience with technical data tooling and deep expertise in at least one data platform. You should be proficient in SQL and Python and have experience with dbt Cloud. The position involves travel 2-4 times per year to company-wide events.

Requirements

• You have 4+ years experience working with technical data tooling in a customer-facing post-sales, technical architect or consulting role
• You have deep expertise in at least one data platform (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift)
• You have experience using, deploying, or configuring dbt Cloud - working with dbt for minimum 1 year
• You are proficient in writing SQL and python in analytics contexts
• You look forward to building skills in technical areas that support deployment and integration of dbt Cloud solutions to complete customer projects
• You are customer focused - embracing one of core values that users are our best advocates
• You are highly organized. Comfort with technical project delivery - managing scope, timelines, and deliverables - this role will be staffed on multiple engagements at once
• You communicate clearly and concisely with internal and external stakeholders - demonstrating a capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
• You thrive in a remote organization that highly values transparency and cross-collaboration
• You will travel 2-4x/year to company wide events

Responsibilities

• Drive customer outcomes
• Lead a variety of impactful technical projects for customers—including implementation, configuration troubleshooting, embedding best practices, and designing both MVPs and long-term solutions tailored to customer needs
• Provide architectural and design consulting to ensure scalable and maintainable implementations
• Champion product adoption for our most strategic dbt Cloud customers by aligning solutions to their goals
• Collaborate closely with internal customer-facing teams—Sales, Solutions Architects, Training, and Support—to ensure seamless customer experiences
• Deliver actionable feedback to dbt Labs' Product and Engineering teams to help prioritize customer needs and ensure quick resolution of engagement-specific issues
• Develop deep expertise in dbt and its role within the modern data stack (if not already an expert)

Preferred Qualifications

• You have obtained the dbt Analytics Engineering Certification
• You have the ability to advise on dbt Cloud recommendations, and build direction/consensus with the customer to move forward
• Experience with traditional Enterprise ETL tooling (Informatica, Datastage, Talend)

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time with a culture that actively encourages time off
• 401k plan with 3% guaranteed company contribution
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage
• Generous paid parental leave
• Health & wellness stipend
• Flexible stipends for: Home office setup
• Learning and development
• Office space