Senior Solution Architect (Presales)

• Grow and retain accounts
• Own the technical aspects of the sales cycle and work closely with sales representatives to drive customer projects to closure
• Shape prospect evaluation requirements, define success criteria, educate customers, and participate in the qualification process
• Define, scope, and execute customer proof of concept studies
• Be an expert in our products and services
• Design and build demos, presentations, reference architectures, and custom integrations
• Perform overall system and SQL performance tuning and migrations from legacy systems
• Act as the consultant and expert on architecture, deployment, and design discussions
• Act as the primary customer-facing technical resource during technology evaluations
• Act as the voice of the customer during internal product engineering discussions
• Collaborate with Engineering and Support teams for critical customer operational issues and questions
• Develop field best practices, how-to documents, and contribute to our internal knowledge base
• Ability to Travel: This role will require 25% in-person travel for purposes including but not limited to new hire onboarding, team and department offsites, customer engagements, and other company events. Actual travel expectations may vary by role and business needs.

• Expertise or experience in one or more of the following technical areas: Analytical and problem-solving skills, ANSI SQL, UNIX/Linux CLI interactions, Data Warehouse usage and concepts, Private/Public Cloud Deployments, Big Data Technologies: Hadoop, distributed systems and storage
• Experience in customer-facing technical roles
• Experience in field sales/field consultant roles
• Strong presentation skills and an ability to respond dynamically to questions in real-time
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Desire to work in a fast-paced startup environment with cutting-edge technologies

Pay range: $230K - $260K

• All employees receive equity packages (ISOs)
• Access to a comprehensive benefits offering
• Competitive pay
• Attractive stock grants
• Flexible paid time off