Summary
Join phData, a leading innovator in the modern data stack, partnering with major cloud platforms. We're a remote-first global company fostering a community of technological curiosity and ownership. As a Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales), you'll own the technical sales process, communicate phData's services, ensure customer success, and grow our customer relationships. You'll deliver pre-sales proof of concepts and expand phData's influence. We offer a casual, award-winning work environment with competitive compensation and benefits.
Requirements
- 5+ years of Solutions Architect & Data Engineer with experience in architecting, building, and supporting modern Data Platforms
- Experience establishing and growing accounts, including building trusted customer relationships, cross-selling services, and building business case proposals
- Proven experience with data migration in large enterprise production environments
- Prior experience in technical presales with proven strong technical skills, business acumen with a sales mindset
- Expertise in core data engineering technologies such as Snowflake, AWS, Azure, or Databricks
- Strong working knowledge of SQL and the ability to write, debug, and optimize distributed SQL queries
- Excellent communication skills, including proven experience working with key stakeholders and customers
- Experience defining solutions and scoping activities on large complex data solutions
- Able to travel 20-30% (typically 1-2 day trips as part of the sales process)
Responsibilities
- Own the technical sales process from introductory meetings (net new sales) through post-sales (customer success and further customer expansion)
- Clearly communicating phData’s Managed Services (MS), Data Engineering (DE), and Machine Learning Engineering (MLE) services to existing and potential customers
- Ensure overall customer success across phData offerings
- Help establish and grow our customer relationships
- Deliver on pre-sales proof of concepts or short paid engagements
- Grow phData’s influence and public presence at conferences, meetups, speaking events, etc
- Collaborate with account executive and delivery owner on Statement of Work (SOW) deliverables
Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent communication skills, including proven experience working with key stakeholders and customers
- Ability to translate “big picture” business requirements and use cases into complete data engineering solutions
- Experience scoping activities on large complex data solutions
- Customer relationship management, including project escalations and post-sales support
Benefits
- Remote-First Work Environment
- A casual, award-winning small-business work environment
- A culture that prizes autonomy, creativity, and transparency
- Competitive compensation, benefits, PTO, and perks
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