Senior Solutions Architect - dbt & Data Platform

Fivetran, Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

Paid time off including vacation and);

Professional development opportunities

Virtual team events

Monthly cell phone stipend

Mental health support platform access

Job summary

Fivetran, Inc. is seeking a Solutions Architect to join our senior pre-sales team. You will partner with sales, customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to shape technical strategy and design dbt-centered solutions, converting technical progress into predictable commercial outcomes.

This role offers broad architectural leadership and significant autonomy from day one. This high-ownership position involves outbound prospecting, shaping your own pipeline, and guiding customers through

Qualifications

• 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 and moving parts.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity, balancing short-term deal support with long-term architectural quality, and operating in a fast-changing environment.
• Evidence of mentoring, force-multiplying peers, or creating assets and practices that improve team effectiveness.
• Strong executive communication, technical storytelling, and written documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery to understand business drivers, technical context, constraints, decision process, and success criteria.
• Run product demonstrations, workshops, evaluations, and proof-oriented engagements that map dbt capabilities to real customer problems.
• Design pragmatic solution architectures spanning dbt, warehouses, orchestration, BI, governance, and adjacent ecosystem tooling.
• Partner closely with account teams on qualification, technical win criteria, risks, next steps, and forecast accuracy.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor for analytics engineers, data engineers, architects, and technical decision-makers.
• Communicate complex topics clearly in both written and verbal form, adapting depth and framing to the audience.
• Support customer adoption and expansion by connecting technical outcomes to additional use cases and long-term platform value.
• Model dbt values through professionalism, curiosity, accountability, collaboration, and a growth mindset.

Skills

Pre-sales

Solutions architecture

SQL

Data transformation

Cloud data platforms

Executive communication

Tools

dbt

Job description

Fivetran, Inc. is seeking a Solutions Architect to join our senior pre-sales team. You will partner with sales, customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to shape technical strategy and design dbt-centered solutions, converting technical progress into predictable commercial outcomes.

This role offers broad architectural leadership and significant autonomy from day one. This high-ownership position involves outbound prospecting, shaping your own pipeline, and guiding customers through