Staff Solutions Architect, New Logo - Central

Temporal; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal seeks a Staff Solutions Architect to lead customer engagements for the Central region, guiding prospects on the suitability of their applications for Temporal’s platform and highlighting cloud-service advantages.

You’ll partner with Account Executives to shape and execute an account plan, own relationships with technical decision-makers, and help customer teams expand production apps using Temporal. Travel 25–50% is expected.

Qualifications

• Excellent technical communication skills.
• Comfortable discussing distributed system technologies, design decisions, and best practices.
• Able to construct application prototypes and guide design, development, build, and deployment using Temporal languages (Java, Golang, Typescript, Python, PHP).
• Conversant in production topics such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations.
• Able to advise on architectural topics and platform architectures.
• Comfortable working with major cloud providers and their services.
• Serve as a technical advisor to Sales Account Executives.

Responsibilities

• Help prospects understand if their application is suitable for Temporal.
• Explain technical benefits/drawbacks of Temporal platform and cloud service.
• Position Temporal against alternative technologies.
• Create conditions for customer engineering teams to expand production apps using Temporal.
• Partner with Account Executives to develop and execute an account plan.
• Own relationships with customer technical decision-makers in evaluating/operating Temporal apps.
• Travel 25-50%.

Skills

Technical communication

Distributed systems

Prototype development

Cloud providers

Architectural guidance

Sales collaboration

Job description

Role Summary

The Staff Solutions Architect is Temporal's primary customer-facing technical leader within the New Logo team, with a focus on the Centralregion. 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

• Help prospects understand if their application is suitable for Temporal

• Help customers & prospects understand the technical benefits and drawbacks of the Temporal platform and cloud service

• Position Temporal successfully against alternative technologies or technical patterns

• Create the conditions in customer engineering organizations that allow them to expand the number of production applications using Temporal

• Partner with Account Executives to develop and execute an overall account plan

• Own the relationship with customer technical decision-makers in evaluating and operating temporal applications.

• Travel expected to be 25-50%

What You'll Bring

• Excellent technical communication skills (presenting, whiteboarding, writing)

• Comfortable discussing distributed system technologies, design decisions, and best practices

• Able to construct application prototypes and follow through with design, development, build, and deployment guidance using one of Temporal’s supported languages (Java, Golang, Typescript, Python, PHP)

• Conversant in topics related to operating applications in production, such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations

• Can offer helpful advice and good arguments to customers on architectural topics like application patterns and platform architectures

• Comfortable working with at least one of the major cloud providers and using the various services commonly employed for application development & production

• Serve as a technical advisor to Sales Account Executives - can help identify good/poor fit use cases, assist with scoping and sizing of opportunities, and anticipate where customer technical choices will work for or against Temporal

Nice to Have

• Likes to learn new technical topics, often directly from Engineering

• Can come up to speed without any sales-specific training (i.e., from docs, videos & conversations)

• Partners well with engineers working at customer organizations

• Serves as a good technical coach: likes to find ways to make others look smart

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