Solutions Architect – Real-Time Data (Pre-Sales, London)

Aerospike; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Aerospike in London seeks an enterprise-focused Solutions Engineer to drive adoption of our real-time data platform. In this pre-sales role you’ll lead architecture design, translate complex requirements into scalable blueprints, and demonstrate clear business value to executives and engineers across North America.

Based in London, you’ll partner with account teams to shape deals, govern POCs, and guide post-sale deployment strategy while traveling up to 30% across North America to support

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery and design creative, multi-region architectures that solve demanding data, scale, latency, and resilience requirements.
• Bring deep expertise in databases, distributed systems, data platforms, and high-throughput workloads—and make complex technology decisions clear to every audience.
• Connect technical choices to business value, competitive differentiation, ROI, and the customer’s broader data strategy.
• Design and lead rigorous POCs, benchmarks, whiteboarding sessions, demos, and architecture reviews that validate performance, scalability, and business impact.
• Partner tightly with Account Executives to shape deal strategy, multi-thread stakeholders, neutralize architectural risk, and advance complex opportunities.
• Diagnose hard customer problems, develop practical solutions, and turn technical objections into reasons to buy.
• Capture recurring requirements, architectural patterns, and competitive intelligence to influence Product, Engineering, Customer Success, partners, and enablement.
• Lead executive and engineering conversations across North America and help convert technical credibility into regional revenue.

Job description

Aerospike in London seeks an enterprise-focused Solutions Engineer to drive adoption of our real-time data platform. In this pre-sales role you’ll lead architecture design, translate complex requirements into scalable blueprints, and demonstrate clear business value to executives and engineers across North America.

Based in London, you’ll partner with account teams to shape deals, govern POCs, and guide post-sale deployment strategy while traveling up to 30% across North America to support