Strategic Solutions Architect for Enterprise Data Analytics

Rocket Software; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocket Software is seeking a Senior Principal Solutions Architect – Vertica to lead adoption of Vertica analytics across enterprise data environments. You will act as a trusted advisor, shaping data strategies, and driving high-impact POCs that demonstrate performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

You will partner with Sales, Product, Engineering and ecosystem partners to design architectures, lead benchmarks, and guide multi-stakeholder engagement from discovery to close.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in solutions architecture, presales, or technical consulting roles.
• Minimum 3–5 years in a customer-facing presales role, preferably in Data Warehouse or Data Lake analytics.
• Proven experience with columnar, MPP, or OLAP databases, such as: Vertica, Teradata, Greenplum, ClickHouse, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers across data warehousing and analytics.
• Lead end-to-end POC and performance benchmark designs and executions.
• Collaborate with Sales to develop account strategies and winning narratives.
• Design Vertica-based architectures across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud.
• Mentor Sales Engineers and guide complex multi-stakeholder sales cycles.
• Align with cloud providers and ecosystem partners for joint solutions.

Skills

Solutions architecture

Presales

Technical consulting

SQL

Python

Shell scripting

Data modeling

ETL/ELT

Cloud platforms

Tools

Vertica

Teradata

Greenplum

ClickHouse

Job description

Rocket Software is seeking a Senior Principal Solutions Architect – Vertica to lead adoption of Vertica analytics across enterprise data environments. You will act as a trusted advisor, shaping data strategies, and driving high-impact POCs that demonstrate performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

You will partner with Sales, Product, Engineering and ecosystem partners to design architectures, lead benchmarks, and guide multi-stakeholder engagement from discovery to close.