Solutions Architect Deployment Strategist

The role

You will implement, integrate, and analyze software and data products for Defense and Intelligence customers. You will be embedded with customers to train users, design workflows, and translate requirements into product feedback.

What you will do

• Understand clients' needs and deliver tailored solutions
• Break down ambiguous, high-stakes problems into solvable components
• Deliver products to D&I customers and support mission requirements
• Design workflows, data models, and configurations
• Train users and iterate with them in real time
• Translate operational requirements into actionable product feedback
• Communicate technical capabilities to customers
• Rapidly prototype, test, and adjust workflows
• Map out high-level strategy with decision makers
• Work closely with customer teams to understand workflows and mission priorities

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software, Systems Engineering, or similar
• 4+ years of experience in supporting D&I customers
• Specialized technical experience in systems integration
• Fluent in Golang, Python, Postgresql, & React or related technologies
• Experience with cloud deployments; GCP, AWS, Azure
• Solid problem-solving and systems thinking skills
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management
• Ability to quickly learn new technical domains and tools
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-pressure environments
• Deep curiosity and willingness to dive into operational details
• Fluency in translating between technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with solving complex problems through analytical skills

Nice to have

• Experience working with defense and intelligence organizations in the UAE
• Systems integrations experience working with multi domain/multi-level security architectures
• Working knowledge of JavaScript and its mapping libraries (OpenLayers, Leaflet, ArcGIS API for JavaScript)
• Google Earth Engine and it's SDK
• Experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL, SQL) and distributed databases (NoSQL)
• Experience in geopolitics and data science
• Ability to pick up new technologies quickly
• Experience with building analytical products from complex datasets
• Experience with geospatial technologies and data
• GEOINT experience, imagery exploitation and analysis

Benefits

• Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
• Employee Wellness Program
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Before you apply

• This position is contingent upon award

About the company

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. The company is both a space company and a data company.