Senior Solution Architect

• Act as a senior technical advisor to strategic enterprise customers, helping them design and implement modern data architectures and solutions powered by Starburst.
• Build custom solutions, working closely with engineering to develop field solutions in customer-facing projects.
• Engage with executives across IT, data, and business teams, translating Starburst’s value into business impact and aligning platform strategy with organizational goals.
• Define and articulate target-state architectures, including data products, lakehouse, distributed query engines, and cloud-native data platforms.
• Develop technical strategy in strategic accounts, partnering with account teams to drive long-term vision, remove obstacles, and ensure successful adoption.
• Guide customers through architectural reviews, best practices, governance models, performance considerations, and security patterns.
• Influence and drive product direction, representing customer needs and industry trends to Engineering and Product Management.
• Develop reference architectures, blueprints, and executive-level technical content that communicates best practices and Starburst’s strategic direction.
• Evangelize modern data architecture principles, helping customers and partners understand how distributed data access, analytics acceleration, and AI workloads benefit from Starburst.

• Deep expertise in modern data architectures, including data lakes, lakehouses, and data warehouses.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid/multi-cloud architecture patterns.
• Executive presence and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders across technical and business domains.
• Demonstrated success guiding large-scale data platform transformations and working with enterprise customers.
• Hands-on proficiency with SQL, data integration, performance tuning, or analytics engineering.
• Ability to travel as needed for customer and industry engagements.
• Expertise with kubernetes platforms like EKS, AKS, GKE, and Openshift.

Pay range: $200K - $240K

• Equity packages (ISOs)
• Comprehensive benefits offering
• Competitive pay
• Attractive stock grants
• Flexible paid time off
• Diverse and inclusive work culture