Principal Partner Solutions Architect

Candidate; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 239,000 - 333,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

Generous paid time away

RSU stock grants

Professional development

Monthly cell phone stipend

Mental health resources

Job summary

Candidate is seeking a Principal Partner Solutions Architect (GSI) to act as the global technical advisor for priority Global Systems Integrators. You will guide the joint business plan, blending technical depth with business insight, and align with partners across regions.

The role requires direct collaboration with alliance leads, regional architects, and product managers. Based in the United States, you will travel to partner and customer sites, lead executive conversations, and ensure

Qualifications

• 10+ years as enterprise/solutions architect or equivalent client-facing role.
• Experience with GSIs, partner GTM, and alliance strategies.
• Ability to translate technical solutions into partner value for execs.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted advisory relationships with priority GSIs and senior stakeholders.
• Own joint technical narrative and messaging for the platform partnerships.
• Promote Fivetran + dbt Labs with partners at conferences and online.
• Recommend integration strategies and enterprise architectures for mega-agreements.
• Maintain a current view of integration state and opportunities across platforms.
• Co-develop IP with GSI partners and evangelize with customers and field.
• Run standing technical cadence with GSI practice and delivery leadership.
• Drive expansion opportunities and accelerate partner-led deals.
• Collaborate to regionalize the GSI relationship into execution.
• Travel to partner/customer sites and events as needed.

Skills

GSI alliances

Enterprise architect

Executive engagement

Data platforms

AI & data tech

dbt & Fivetran

Tools

dbt

Fivetran

Job description

About Us

From Fivetran’s 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.

Fivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.

Together, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data — from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on.

Fivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.

As we bring our teams and technology together, we’re building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.

During this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Principal Partner Solutions Architect (GSI) to be Fivetran + dbt Labs' global technical advisor to our priority Global Systems Integrators (GSIs) — comfortable operating at executive level, leading the conversation, and directing execution of the joint business plan by combining technical depth with business insight. You are the ecosystem peer to the GSI's lead architects and delivery leads. You will own the technical capability, overarching solution architecture, and multi-year bets of the GSI partnership you support.

This role partners closely with the global alliance leads for these GSIs to articulate the true total value of each technical solution and execute impactful engagements across regions and countries. Functionally, the role sits at the intersection of field engineering, product management, and partnerships. Your closest counterparts are the GSI's practice and delivery leadership, the regional Partner Solutions Architects and Partnerships teams who run the day-to-day motion, and product managers across both Fivetran and dbt Labs. Operating at the Principal level, you will report directly to the Global Head of Partner Solutions Architecture.

This is a full-time position based in the US.

What You’ll Do

• Build a trusted advisory relationship with priority GSIs and engage with their senior technical stakeholders and practice leads to secure multi-year technology bets with Fivetran and dbt Labs.
• Own the joint technical narrative and capability messaging for the combined Fivetran + dbt Labs platform as it applies to this GSI's delivery practice — reference architectures, integration patterns, and the joint value story their consultants use with mutual customers.
• Provide domain expertise around modern data platforms and enterprise technology, and effectively promote Fivetran + dbt Labs with partners, at conferences, and online.
• Make recommendations on integration strategies, partner-side enterprise architectures, platforms, and application infrastructure required to successfully implement complete solutions for complex GSI mega-agreements.
• Maintain a single, current view of integration state, gaps, and opportunities across the combined platform (ingestion, transformation, semantic layer, catalog/metadata, agent and MCP interfaces) as it affects this GSI's delivery methodology, and collaborate with Product to drive the right outcomes.
• Co-develop intellectual property with GSI partners — enterprise-grade, replicable joint solutions and accelerators built with product management and technical teams — and evangelize that IP with partners, customers, and the field to drive adoption.
• Run the standing technical cadence with the GSI's practice and delivery leadership as their primary technical counterpart.
• Drive and influence GSI audiences, identify expansion engagements within partner accounts, and ensure accelerated agreement velocity with zero partner-delivery escalations on GSI-led mega-agreements.
• Partner with the regional Partner Solutions Architects and Partnerships organization so the global GSI relationship turns into regional execution, and so they can run the motion without you in the room.
• Travel to partner and customer sites, conferences, and other related events as needed.

Skills We’re Looking For

• Direct experience with technology and/or systems integrator alliances, or having sat on the delivery/practice side of a GSI or similar consulting organization — with a track record of shaping and scalingtechnical partner GTM.
• 10+ years of experience as an enterprise/solutions architect or in an equivalent customer- and partner-facing role.
• Fluency across the modern data stack (ingestion, transformation, orchestration, warehouses/lakehouses, semantic layers, catalogs, BI, and the agent/MCP layer) and the ability to explain how the pieces fit for a systems integrator's delivery practice.
• A demonstrable understanding of how GSIs operate, build, deploy and monetise Intellectual Property with technology partners.
• Experience engaging with, and presenting to, senior technical stakeholders and executive leaders, with the business acumen to translate technical solutions into partner and customer value.
• Experience with modern AI paradigms, generative AI, and data technologies, including experience evaluating and reviewing technical solutions.
• Ability to drive and influence GSI audiences, identify expansion engagements within partner accounts, and ensure accelerated agreement velocity with zero partner-delivery escalations on GSI-led mega-agreements.
• Ability to deliver results and work cross-functionally to position and orchestrate joint solutions spanning multiple products

Bonus Skills

• Verticalized knowledge of data and analytics technology solutions, with the ability to learn and work with new and emerging tools, methodologies, and platforms.
• Experience with structured enterprise architecture practices, hybrid deployments, and on-premise-to-cloud migration roadmaps.
• Ability to influence product roadmap: gathering requirements from a partner, building a prioritization case, and getting it accepted by product leadership.
• Hands‑on experience with dbt and with Fivetran.

Compensation & Benefits

The compensation range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire compensation for the target position and level, and may include sales incentives or target bonuses depending on the role. For this role, on-target earnings (OTE) are split 70% base salary and 30% variable compensation. Our compensation ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Within the range, individual compensation is determined by additional factors, including job‑related skills, experience, relevant education or training, business need, market demands. The compensation range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific compensation range for your location during the hiring process.

OTE (On Target Earning)$239,446.04—$332,562.90 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

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