Solution Architect-Texas

ClickHouse, Inc.; Texas; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Healthcare

Equity in the company

Time off

A USD$500 Home office setup

Global Gatherings

Job summary

ClickHouse, Inc. is hiring an Enterprise Solutions Architect to own the technical side of the sales cycle for enterprise accounts in Texas, with a base in Austin or Dallas.

You will design production-scale data solutions, run benchmarks against customer data, and craft credible migration plans that engineers can execute. The role emphasizes deep technical depth, experience with analytical databases, and the ability to engage multiple stakeholders from data engineers to executives.

Qualifications

• Deep technical foundation in data infrastructure built through platform/engineering or solutions architecture roles.
• Production experience with analytical databases and operating them, not just querying.
• Distributed systems judgment including partitioning, replication and consistency trade-offs.
• Fluency across the modern data stack and at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) at architecture level.
• Experience running a technical evaluation against a competitor and winning it.
• Customer-facing experience with real stakes (pre-sales, consulting, or staff-level engineering).
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to present to executives.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical evaluation for enterprise accounts from discovery through POC and production workload.
• Engage with data platform engineers, architects, SRE, security, and executives to design inclusive solutions.
• Design for production scale: sizing, sharding, replication, ingestion topology, tiered storage.
• Win competitive displacements using benchmarks customers can reproduce.
• Own migration plans and sequencing, dual-run, validation, and cutover.
• Navigate security and procurement: questionnaires, compliance, network and identity architecture.
• Partner with Enterprise AEs to progress and close opportunities; build the TCO case with the team.
• Advocate for customer needs with Product and Engineering and contribute reference materials.

Skills

Data infrastructure

Distributed systems

Cloud architectures

Pre-sales experience

Customer facing

Strong communication

Tools

ClickHouse

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

Druid

Pinot

Vertica

Job description

THE ROLE

As an Enterprise Solutions Architect at ClickHouse, you'll own the technical side of the sales cycle for enterprise accounts in Texas. This role serves our Enterprise segment in Texas, and the ideal candidate would be based in Austin or Dallas.

You'll engage with data platform engineers, architects, SRE, and the VP who owns the standard - and your job is to design something that satisfies all of them and then prove it at production scale.

Getting an enterprise team there usually means moving them off something else, so most of your work is making that migration credible: the architecture, benchmarks run against their own data, and a plan their engineers believe they can execute.

This is a role for engineers who want the hard version of the problem: real scale, real constraints, and an incumbent to displace. Prior pre-sales experience helps but isn't required - technical depth is non-negotiable.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Own the technical evaluation for enterprise accounts - from discovery through POC or competitive bake-off, architecture sign-off, security review, and first production workload.

• Engage across a wider set of stakeholders than a single team: data platform engineers, architects, SRE, security, and the executive who owns the standard. Design solutions that hold up with all of them in the room.

• Design for production scale - sizing, sharding and replication strategy, ingestion topology, tiered storage, cost modeling, and what happens when something fails at 3am.

• Win competitive displacements against Elasticsearch, Splunk, Snowflake, BigQuery, Druid, Pinot, and homegrown systems, using benchmarks the customer's own team can reproduce.

• Own the migration plan - sequencing, dual‑run, validation, and cutover - so the customer's team can see exactly how they get to production.

• Clear the security and procurement path: questionnaires, compliance artifacts, network and identity architecture, and BYOC or private deployment requirements.

• Partner closely with Enterprise AEs to progress and close opportunities - you own the technical win, they own the commercial close. Build the TCO case against the incumbent/competition together.

• Advocate for customer needs internally with Product and Engineering - you're the voice of the technical buyer inside ClickHouse.

• Contribute reference architectures, benchmark harnesses, migration guides, and objection handling material that help the team scale what's working.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Deep technical foundation in data infrastructure - built through experience as a data engineer, platform engineer, software engineer, DBA, or solutions architect.

• Production experience with analytical databases (ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Druid, Pinot, Vertica) and with operating them, not just querying them.

• Distributed systems judgment: partitioning, replication, consistency trade‑offs, query execution, and a felt sense for where things break under load.

• Fluency across the modern data stack - Kafka and CDC pipelines, orchestration, object storage, BI tools, and at least one major cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) at architecture level.

• Experience running a technical evaluation against a named competitor and winning it, including designing the migration off the incumbent and the parts of it that are genuinely hard.

• Customer‑facing experience with real stakes - pre‑sales, consulting, technical account management, or a staff‑level engineering role that put you in front of customers.

• Strong written and verbal communication. You can whiteboard with a staff engineer in the morning and present to a VP of Engineering in the afternoon.

• Comfort with longer cycles and more stakeholders. Enterprise evaluations don't close in three weeks, and you know how to keep one moving without letting it stall.

• Willingness to say ClickHouse isn't the right tool for a given workload when that's true.

Perks

• Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote‑friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.

• Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.

• Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.

• Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.

• A USD$500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.

• Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in‑person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company‑wide offsites.

Culture - We All Shape It

As part of a rapidly scaling start‑up, you will be instrumental in shaping our culture.

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