Enterprise Solutions Architect – Data Platform & Scale

ClickHouse; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Remote-friendly, global reach

Healthcare contributions

Job summary

ClickHouse is seeking an Enterprise Solutions Architect to own the technical side of the sales cycle for enterprise accounts in the North Central United States. Based in Minneapolis or Chicago, you will design production-scale data architectures and migrations, engaging data engineers, architects, SREs, and executives to ensure credible, deployable solutions.

You will lead technical evaluations against competitors, craft migration plans, and ensure security and procurement readiness.

Qualifications

• Deep technical foundation in data infrastructure gained from engineering or architecture roles.
• Production experience with analytical databases (ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Druid, Pinot, Vertica) and operating them.
• Understand partitioning, replication, consistency, query execution, and load behavior.
• Fluency with the modern data stack (Kafka, CDC, orchestration, object storage, BI tools, at least one cloud).
• Experience running a technical evaluation against a named competitor and guiding migration off incumbents.
• Customer-facing experience in pre-sales, consulting, or similar roles with real stakes.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to present to staff engineers and VPs.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical evaluation for enterprise accounts from discovery to POC and production sign-off.
• Engage with data platform engineers, architects, SREs, security, and executives to design credible solutions.
• Design for production scale including sizing, sharding, replication, and tiered storage.
• Win displacement against competitors using customer data benchmarks.
• Own migration planning, sequencing, validation, and cutover to production.
• Navigate security and procurement artifacts and BYOC/private deployment options.
• Collaborate with Enterprise AEs to progress opportunities and build a joint technical win.

Skills

Data infrastructure

Analytical databases

Distributed systems

Modern data stack

Competitor evals

Customer-facing

Technical communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

Kafka

CDC

Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Job description

ClickHouse is seeking an Enterprise Solutions Architect to own the technical side of the sales cycle for enterprise accounts in the North Central United States. Based in Minneapolis or Chicago, you will design production-scale data architectures and migrations, engaging data engineers, architects, SREs, and executives to ensure credible, deployable solutions.

You will lead technical evaluations against competitors, craft migration plans, and ensure security and procurement readiness.