Staff Solutions Architect, Majors (West)

Temporal Technologies; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 221,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal Technologies is seeking a Solutions Architect to lead customer-facing technical engagements within the Majors team (West). You will guide prospects on applying Temporal’s platform, showcase its cloud advantages, and help customer teams expand production use cases while shaping technical strategy with key decision-makers.

You will collaborate with sales and engineering, write reference architectures, and travel up to 50% to drive opportunities and ensure long-term customer success.

Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems design and production deployments.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience guiding customers in platform adoption and architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with prospects to determine fit for Temporal’s platform.
• Educate customers on technical benefits and limitations of Temporal’s platform and cloud service.
• Position Temporal as an enterprise standard against competing technologies and patterns.
• Foster adoption and expansion of Temporal in customer production environments.
• Partner with Account Executives to develop and execute account plans for new and existing opportunities.
• Manage relationships with technical decision-makers to maximize adoption of Temporal’s capabilities.
• Create reusable technical assets, reference architectures, playbooks, and demos for other Solutions Architects.
• Travel 25-50%.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Technical leadership

Customer-facing

Architectural guidance

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Role Summary

The Solutions Architect is Temporal’s primary customer-facing technical leader within the Majors team (West). In this crucial role, you’ll work directly with prospects and customers, guiding them in understanding the suitability of their applications for Temporal’s platform and showcasing the technical advantages of our cloud service. Your contribution is vital in positioning Temporal against alternative technologies, helping customer engineering teams expand production applications using Temporal, and owning the technical relationship with key decision-makers. Your role is integral to our success.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with prospects to determine if their applications fit Temporal’s platform well.
• Educate customers and prospects on the technical benefits and limitations of Temporal’s platform and cloud service.
• Position Temporal as an enterprise development standard against competing technologies and architectural patterns.
• Foster an environment within customer engineering organizations to increase the adoption and expansion of Temporal in production environments.
• Partner closely with Account Executives to develop and execute comprehensive account plans across both new opportunities and expansion, accounting for the customer's long-term success and outcome.
• Manage and nurture relationships with technical decision-makers within customer organizations, ensuring they fully leverage Temporal’s capabilities.
• Create reusable technical assets, reference architectures, playbooks, and demos that provides value for other Solution Architects.
• Travel expected to be 25-50%

What You’ll Bring

• Reside within the Pacific time zone (United States) - preference for San Francisco Bay Area or Seattle Area.
• Exceptional technical communication skills across altitudes, from a staff-level engineer whiteboard to a platform-team enablement session to a VP/CTO narrative.
• Deep understanding of distributed system technologies, design principles, and best practices.
• Proficiency in building application prototypes and providing design, development, build, and deployment guidance using one or more of Temporal’s supported languages: Java, Golang, Python, C#, TypeScript, Ruby, or Rust.
• Firm grasp of operational considerations in production environments, such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations.
• Ability to provide insightful advice on architectural topics, including application patterns and platform architectures.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider and familiarity with commonly used application development and production services.
• Ability to serve as a strategic technical advisor to Sales Account Executives, assisting with scoping and sizing opportunities and offering guidance on technical fit and challenges.

Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.

Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.

Compensation Range: $168K - $220.5K