Senior Lead Architect | USA - Texas - Remote

Cohesity; Town of Texas (WI); Remote; USD 128,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Cohesity is seeking a highly experienced architect to develop and validate deployment architectures for their innovative data security solutions. The ideal candidate will collaborate across teams to deliver professional services, driving the success of customer deployments with proven expertise in databases and public cloud technologies. Join a leading company committed to shaping the future of data management and security.

Benefits

Flexible paid time off

Healthcare coverage for you and your family

Paid parental leave

Continuous learning opportunities

401(k) retirement plan

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years’ experience in IT.
• Experience in virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V).
• Experience with disaster recovery/business continuance.

Responsibilities

• Develop detailed blueprints for customer deployments.
• Engage directly with customers to understand their needs.
• Maintain and update JIRA with user stories.

Skills

Proficiency in Oracle

Proficiency in SQL

Data Protection

Data Security

Data Management

Scripting / Automation (Python)

Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Excellent communication

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

JIRA

Visio

Job description

At Cohesity, we’re on a mission to secure the world’s data. We move fast, collaborate across teams and cultures, and embrace the freedom to solve challenges in innovative ways—creating endless possibilities.

To achieve our bold ambitions, we need self-driven, motivated team players ready to make an impact. We offer flexible work schedules, comprehensive benefits, and a culture where you can thrive. Explore our open roles and secure the next step in your career at Cohesity!

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale.

We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design.

Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.

Ready to secure the future of data with Cohesity?

We are looking for experienced architects who can develop detailed blueprints for successful customer deployments. Additionally, you’ll create repeatable blueprints that become the templates for all customer deployments. These will be used to develop our services practices, to enable our delivery teams, our partner teams, and our customers to deploy our secondary storage solutions applications. The ideal candidate is someone who has considerable experience architecting, documenting, deploying, and enabling others.

These practices will utilize the architecture sold by our account teams to achieve customer-committed solutions. In addition to building these solutions, this role will also spend considerable time validating these procedures in the field and teaching partners and customers how to apply these in their environment.

HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE

You will be working with engineering, systems engineers, tech marketing specialists, and customer support to build out professional services practices starting with the architectural blueprint that covers installation, integration, applications, migration, scripting (automation) to be used by delivery teams, partners and customers.

Deliver architecture and professional services to Cohesity customers.

Build strategic relationships with key customers and Cohesity teams.

Collaborate with Cohesity’s product solutions team to bridge the gap between technology capabilities and customer requirements.

Engage directly with customers to understand their organization needs and identify how Cohesity’s product features can best support their objectives

Write and validate deployment architectures.

Collaborate with the Cohesity Product Solutions team to bridge the gap between technology capabilities and customer requirements, ensuring smooth knowledge transfer to the solution delivery team.

Engage directly with customers to understand their organizational needs and identify how Cohesity's product features can best support their objectives.

Maintain and update JIRA by creating and managing user stories to ensure alignment across product, engineering, and delivery teams.

Define technical architecture including sizing and performance that meet customer requirements.

Engage with teams to ensure Deployment Designs are successfully deployed.

Create knowledge base articles related to practices and architectures.

Develop best practices for the deployment designs that translate to project plans.

Continually improve deliverables as we scale and release new features/products.

Inspect deliverables for successes and improvements.

Work with others to develop post-deployment documentation (run books, pre-deployment templates, etc.)

Convert deployment designs and best practices into a training curriculum.

Deliver hands-on training in small group formats.

Conduct beta testing of procedures for new deployment designs in the field

Provide feedback to Implement Engineers, Systems Engineers, and engineering on ways to improve the overall experience.

WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Minimum 6 years’ experience in IT IC 5 5+

Experience highly desirable in the following areas:

Proficiency in Oracle and SQL is required for this role, with a strong emphasis on practical, hands-on experience in both databases.

Data Protection, Data Security and Data Management

Storage (Isilon, NetApp & Pure)

Disaster Recovery/Business Continuance

Database Protection and Recovery

Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Scripting / Automation (Python, Ansible and ServiceNow)

Visio or equivalent application

Excellent communication and project-related skills are required.

Strong written skills and the ability to create documentation.

The ability to teach others and make them successful.

Self-starter with excellent organization and time management skills

The ability to manage projects and to drive to a deadline.

Expected Travel: > 25%

Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws - This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors, including a candidate’s skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations, and therefore a starting salary at the low end, high end, or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in ourcomprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

Pay Range :

Cohesity is a leader in AI-powered data security and management. Aided by an extensive ecosystem of partners, Cohesity makes it easy to secure, protect, manage, and get value from data — across the data center, edge, and cloud. Cohesity helps organizations defend against cybersecurity threats with comprehensive data security and management capabilities, including immutable backup snapshots, AI-based threat detection, monitoring for malicious behavior, and rapid recovery at scale.

We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design.

Join us on our mission to shape the future of our industry.

Ready to secure the future of data with Cohesity?

We are looking for experienced architects who can develop detailed blueprints for successful customer deployments. Additionally, you’ll create repeatable blueprints that become the templates for all customer deployments. These will be used to develop our services practices, to enable our delivery teams, our partner teams, and our customers to deploy our secondary storage solutions applications. The ideal candidate is someone who has considerable experience architecting, documenting, deploying, and enabling others.

These practices will utilize the architecture sold by our account teams to achieve customer-committed solutions. In addition to building these solutions, this role will also spend considerable time validating these procedures in the field and teaching partners and customers how to apply these in their environment.

HOW YOU’LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE

You will be working with engineering, systems engineers, tech marketing specialists, and customer support to build out professional services practices starting with the architectural blueprint that covers installation, integration, applications, migration, scripting (automation) to be used by delivery teams, partners and customers.

• Deliver architecture and professional services to Cohesity customers.

• Build strategic relationships with key customers and Cohesity teams.

• Collaborate with Cohesity’s product solutions team to bridge the gap between technology capabilities and customer requirements.

• Engage directly with customers to understand their organization needs and identify how Cohesity’s product features can best support their objectives

• Write and validate deployment architectures.

• Collaborate with the Cohesity Product Solutions team to bridge the gap between technology capabilities and customer requirements, ensuring smooth knowledge transfer to the solution delivery team.

• Engage directly with customers to understand their organizational needs and identify how Cohesity's product features can best support their objectives.

• Maintain and update JIRA by creating and managing user stories to ensure alignment across product, engineering, and delivery teams.

• Define technical architecture including sizing and performance that meet customer requirements.

• Engage with teams to ensure Deployment Designs are successfully deployed.

• Create knowledge base articles related to practices and architectures.

• Develop best practices for the deployment designs that translate to project plans.

• Continually improve deliverables as we scale and release new features/products.

• Inspect deliverables for successes and improvements.

• Work with others to develop post-deployment documentation (run books, pre-deployment templates, etc.)

• Convert deployment designs and best practices into a training curriculum.

• Deliver hands-on training in small group formats.

• Conduct beta testing of procedures for new deployment designs in the field

• Provide feedback to Implement Engineers, Systems Engineers, and engineering on ways to improve the overall experience.

WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

• Minimum 6 years’ experience in IT IC 5 5+

• Experience highly desirable in the following areas:

• Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix Xen App/Desktop)

• Linux/Unix

• Proficiency in Oracle and SQL is required for this role, with a strong emphasis on practical, hands-on experience in both databases.

• Data Protection, Data Security and Data Management

• Storage (Isilon, NetApp & Pure)

• Disaster Recovery/Business Continuance

• Database Protection and Recovery

• Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Scripting / Automation (Python, Ansible and ServiceNow)

• Visio or equivalent application

• Excellent communication and project-related skills are required.

• Strong verbal communication/presentation skills

• Strong written skills and the ability to create documentation.

• The ability to teach others and make them successful.

• Self-starter with excellent organization and time management skills

• The ability to manage projects and to drive to a deadline.

• Expected Travel: > 25%

Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws - This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors, including a candidate’s skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations, and therefore a starting salary at the low end, high end, or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in ourcomprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

Pay Range :

$128,900.00-$161,100.00

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In-Office Expectations

Cohesity employees who are within a reasonable commute (e.g. within a forty-five (45) minute average travel time) work out of our core offices 2-3 days a week of their choosing.

At Cohesity, we work hard and move fast—and we’re not afraid to push boundaries to deliver exceptional work. We value integrity and respect, and here’s what we promise: We’ll give you the tools to be successful and welcome you into a culture that celebrates individual contributions and collective success. We’ll empower you to grow, offer continuous learning opportunities, and surround you with ambitious, collaborative colleagues.

We strive to have a parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our employees (and their families) is the right thing to do.

• Healthcare coverage for you and your family
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible paid time off
• Additional company-wide days off throughout the year
• A robust wellness program
• Continuous learning opportunities
• And a competitive salary and additional benefits package

Join our team!

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