Lead Sales Engineer, Enterprise

Fivetran; Oakland (CA); Remote; USD 192,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

Paid time off and holidays

RSU stock grants

Professional development and training

Job summary

Fivetran is seeking a Lead Sales Engineer for Enterprise to partner with Sales in understanding complex data needs and to demonstrate how the Fivetran + dbt platform delivers end-to-end data pipelines. You will own evaluations from ingestion to analytics-ready models using dbt Cloud.

You will guide private-cloud deployments where needed, work with Product and Engineering, and build strong relationships with customers and partners like Snowflake and Databricks.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data replication, sales engineering, solutions architecture, or consulting in data operations, analytics, or BI

Responsibilities

• Understand Enterprise customers' data requirements across ingestion, transformation, and modeling
• Develop and deliver technical presentations to Enterprise audiences on the Fivetran + dbt value proposition
• Lead technical evaluations across the full data lifecycle from replication to analytics-ready models
• Guide customers through dbt Cloud proof-of-concept implementations, including private-cloud deployments when applicable
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to align solutions with Enterprise needs and inform the dbt Cloud roadmap
• Maintain relationships with key Enterprise customers and partners (Snowflake, AWS, Databricks)
• Own the technical relationship across the customer lifecycle pre-sale to adoption and expansion
• Stay current on data movement, transformation, and analytics engineering trends, actively engaging in the dbt community

Skills

data replication

sales engineering

solutions architecture

analytics/BI

Tools

SQL

ETL/ELT

data modeling

Job description

Remote, California, United States, AMER

Position Title: Lead Sales Engineer, Enterprise

From Fivetran founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We're proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.

About the Role

Fivetran's mission is to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity with dbt Labs now part of Fivetran, that mission extends from moving data into the warehouse to transforming and modeling it for trusted, governed analytics.

We're looking for a Sales Engineer to join our Enterprise sales team. In this role, you'll work closely with Sales to understand Enterprise customers' complex data requirements spanning ingestion, transformation, and data modeling and demonstrate how the combined Fivetran + dbt platform helps them build reliable, end-to-end data pipelines. You'll own technical evaluations across the full data lifecycle: from replicating data into the warehouse to transforming it into governed, analytics-ready models with dbt Cloud.

Technologies You'll Use

AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Kafka, Grafana, Linux, Windows, Python, Java, Iceberg, dbt Cloud, SQL, data catalogs

What You'll Do

• Work with Enterprise customers to understand their business, use cases, and requirements across data replication, transformation, and modeling
• Develop and deliver technical presentations to Enterprise audiences on the full Fivetran + dbt value proposition
• Ensure the technical win by running a tight proof-of-value process spanning ingestion through transformation
• Guide customers through dbt Cloud proof-of-concept implementations, including private-cloud deployments for enterprise clients where applicable
• Work closely with Product and Engineering to align solutions with Enterprise customer needs and inform the dbt Cloud enterprise roadmap
• Develop and maintain relationships with key Enterprise customers and partners (including Snowflake, AWS, Databricks)
• Own the technical relationship across the full customer lifecycle pre-sale evaluation through adoption and expansion
• Stay current on trends in data movement, transformation, and analytics engineering; be an active participant in the dbt community

Skills We’re Looking For

• 7+ years in data replication, sales engineering, solutions architecture, or consulting in data operations, analytics, or BI
• Strong technical background covering database replication, cloud infrastructure, and modern data warehousing architectures
• Hands-on experience with SQL, ETL/ELT, and data modeling
• Experience with modern data analytics technologies, including cloud data warehouses/lakes, transformation tooling (dbt or similar), data catalogs, and BI tools
• Ability to gather and translate technical and business requirements into concrete solutions
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to explain complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills; comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-paced environments

Optional Bonus Skills

• Prior experience at an analytics, ETL, BI, or open-source software company
• Hands-on experience with dbt Cloud or dbt Core
• Experience with data modeling methodologies (dimensional, data vault, Kimball, 3NF)
• Experience with Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, or traditional Enterprise ETL tooling (Informatica, Boomi, Talend)
• Experience with self-hosted software applications and supporting infrastructure
• Hands-on networking experience, cloud and on-premise

Pay Range

191,553 — 239,441 USD

Perks and Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
• Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.
• RSU stock grants*
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.

*May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information

Were honoured to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, were proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.

Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world‑class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.

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