Solution Architect-North Central

The role

You will own the technical side of the sales cycle for enterprise accounts in the North Central United States. You will design solutions, run benchmarks, and manage migrations to move customers off incumbent systems.

What you will do

• Own the technical evaluation for enterprise accounts from discovery through production workload.
• Engage with data platform engineers, architects, SRE, security, and executives.
• Design for production scale including sizing, sharding, replication, and cost modeling.
• Win competitive displacements against competitors using reproducible benchmarks.
• Own the migration plan including sequencing, dual-run, validation, and cutover.
• Clear the security and procurement path through questionnaires and compliance artifacts.
• Partner with Enterprise AEs to progress and close opportunities.
• Advocate for customer needs internally with Product and Engineering.
• Contribute reference architectures, benchmark harnesses, and migration guides.

Required qualifications

• Deep technical foundation in data infrastructure.
• Production experience with analytical databases.
• Distributed systems judgment regarding partitioning, replication, and consistency.
• Fluency across the modern data stack including Kafka, CDC pipelines, orchestration, and object storage.
• Experience with at least one major cloud at architecture level.
• Experience running a technical evaluation against a named competitor and winning it.
• Customer-facing experience in pre-sales, consulting, technical account management, or staff-level engineering.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Comfort with longer cycles and more stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Prior pre-sales experience

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Employer contributions towards healthcare
• Stock options
• Flexible time off in the US
• Generous entitlement in other countries
• USD$500 Home office setup for remote employees
• Global Gatherings and company-wide offsites

About the company

ClickHouse is a globally distributed company operating in over 25 countries.