Remote Enterprise Solutions Architect: Scale Migration

ClickHouse, Inc.; Chicago, Minneapolis (IL, MN); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Time off

Home office setup (USD 500)

Global gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse, Inc. seeks an Enterprise Solutions Architect to own the technical side of the sales cycle for enterprise accounts in the North Central United States, based in Chicago or Minneapolis.

You will design production-scale data architectures, run benchmarks on customer data, and guide migration plans to production with cross-functional stakeholders. You will engage with data engineers, SRE, security, and executives to ensure architectural sign-off, security compliance, and a credible

Qualifications

• Deep technical foundation in data infrastructure (data engineer/platform engineer/software engineer/solutions architect).
• Production experience with analytical databases and operating them.
• Distributed systems judgment and load handling.
• Fluency across the modern data stack (Kafka, CDC, orchestration, object storage, BI tools) and at least one cloud.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical evaluation for enterprise accounts from discovery through POC, architecture sign-off, security review, and first production workload.
• Engage with multiple stakeholders (data platform engineers, architects, SRE, security, executives) to design cross-functional solutions.
• Design for production scale including sizing, sharding, replication, ingestion topology, tiered storage, and failure handling.
• Win competitive displacements using customer benchmarks and migrations off incumbents.
• Own the migration plan with sequencing, validation, and cutover so teams can reach production.
• Clear security/procurement path with questionnaires, compliance artifacts, and BYOC/private deployment requirements.
• Partner with Enterprise AEs to progress opportunities and build the TCO case with the customer.

Skills

Data infrastructure

Analytical databases experience

Distributed systems

Modern data stack

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Pre-sales experience

Customer-facing experience

Communication skills

Migration planning

Tools

Kafka

CDC pipelines

Cloud storage

BigQuery

ClickHouse ecosystem

Job description

ClickHouse, Inc. seeks an Enterprise Solutions Architect to own the technical side of the sales cycle for enterprise accounts in the North Central United States, based in Chicago or Minneapolis.

You will design production-scale data architectures, run benchmarks on customer data, and guide migration plans to production with cross-functional stakeholders. You will engage with data engineers, SRE, security, and executives to ensure architectural sign-off, security compliance, and a credible