Senior Solutions Architect – Data & dbt Platform

Fivetran; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid medical insurance

RSU stock grants

Professional development and training

Company virtual happy hours

Job summary

Fivetran is seeking a Staff Solutions Architect to lead technical strategy in complex enterprise opportunities, engage in outbound prospecting, and shape dbt‑centered solutions with customers and partners. You will own high‑impact engagements, design pragmatic architectures, and influence cross‑functional teams from day one.

This senior role emphasizes hands‑on demonstrations, strong storytelling, and broad architectural leadership across data warehouses, orchestration, BI, and governance.

Qualifications

• Experience in pre‑sales, solutions architecture, sales engineering, or a comparable customer‑facing technical role.
• Strong understanding of dbt, analytics engineering, SQL, data transformation, and modern cloud data platforms.
• Ability to lead technical strategy in complex enterprise opportunities with multiple stakeholders and moving parts.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity, balancing short‑term deal support with long‑term architectural quality, and operating in a fast‑changing environment.
• Evidence of mentoring, force‑multiplying peers, or creating assets and practices that improve team effectiveness.
• Strong executive communication, technical storytelling, and written documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery to understand business drivers, technical context, constraints, decision process, and success criteria.
• Run product demonstrations, workshops, evaluations, and proof‑oriented engagements that map dbt capabilities to real customer problems.
• Design pragmatic solution architectures spanning dbt, warehouses, orchestration, BI, governance, and adjacent ecosystem tooling.
• Partner closely with account teams on qualification, technical win criteria, risks, next steps, and forecast accuracy.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor for analytics engineers, data engineers, architects, and technical decision makers.
• Communicate complex topics clearly in both written and verbal form, adapting depth and framing to the audience.
• Support customer adoption and expansion by connecting technical outcomes to additional use cases and long‑term platform value.
• Model dbt values through professionalism, curiosity, accountability, collaboration, and a growth mindset.

Skills

dbt

Analytics engineering

SQL

Data transformation

Cloud data platforms

Pre-sales

Executive communication

Mentoring

Tools

dbt

Job description

Fivetran is seeking a Staff Solutions Architect to lead technical strategy in complex enterprise opportunities, engage in outbound prospecting, and shape dbt‑centered solutions with customers and partners. You will own high‑impact engagements, design pragmatic architectures, and influence cross‑functional teams from day one.

This senior role emphasizes hands‑on demonstrations, strong storytelling, and broad architectural leadership across data warehouses, orchestration, BI, and governance.