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We power personalization for more than 1,400 global brands, including American Eagle, Sonepar, and Pandora.\nThe Principal Solutions Architect is a Senior, Global, customer-facing technology role responsible for helping Bloomreach win and grow strategic enterprise customers by connecting their business objectives with modern data, AI, MarTech and commerce architectures.\nYou will act as a trusted technical advisor to senior technology and digital leaders, helping customers understand how Bloomreach can fit into - and enhance - their existing technology ecosystem.\nWorking closely with our Global Account Executives, Solution Consultants, Product, Engineering and Customer Success Teams, you will shape technical strategy throughout complex enterprise sales cycles, lead executive and technical conversations, and help potential customers translate architectural decisions into measurable business outcomes.\nThis role sits between deep technical architecture and commercial strategy. You do not need to have been a CTO, but you should be comfortable engaging with CIOs, CTOs, Enterprise Architects and other senior technology stakeholders.\nKey Responsibilities\nCustomer Technology & Architecture\nAct as a senior technical advisor for global strategic enterprise opportunities and customer engagements.\nBuild trusted relationships with CIOs, CTOs, Enterprise Architects, Chief Digital Officers and senior technology teams.\nUnderstand and map complex customer technology environments, identifying where Bloomreach can create value.\nWhiteboard and communicate complex architectures, data flows and integration strategies with technical and executive audiences.\nAdvise customers on how data moves from systems of record through to real-time decisioning, personalization and activation.\nHelp customers evaluate architectural trade-offs across data platforms, APIs, cloud infrastructure, identity, governance, latency and scalability.\nExplain where traditional warehouse-centric 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workshops.\nConnect technical and architectural decisions to business outcomes, including revenue, cost, risk and time-to-value.\nHelp identify and remove technical barriers that could prevent enterprise opportunities from progressing.\nBring strong commercial instincts and an understanding of how technology decisions influence enterprise buying processes.\nChallenge customer assumptions where appropriate while maintaining a consultative, outcome-focused approach.\nInternal & Market Influence\nPartner with our Global Product and Engineering teams to bring customer insights, market trends and architectural requirements back into Bloomreach.\nConstructively challenge internal teams when customer needs or market opportunities require a different approach.\nMentor Solution Consultants and other customer-facing teams on modern data architecture, AI, enterprise technology and industry trends.\nDevelop relationships with strategic technology partners including hyperscalers, commerce platforms, CDPs and systems integrators.\nContribute to customer technology briefings, industry events and thought leadership where relevant.\nExperience\nSignificant experience in a senior customer-facing technical role within enterprise software, SaaS, commerce, MarTech, data or digital experience.\nStrong understanding of modern data architecture and cloud platforms, including technologies such as Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, lakehouses and CDPs.\nStrong understanding of APIs, event-driven architectures, data flows, identity resolution, customer profiles and real-time activation.\nUnderstanding of enterprise MarTech and commerce ecosystems, including CRM, ESPs, personalization, marketing automation and commerce platforms.\nExperience with enterprise cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure.\nUnderstanding of modern commerce architectures, APIs, microservices, composable commerce and cloud-native technologies.\nExperience supporting complex enterprise sales cycles, RFPs, technical evaluations and multi-stakeholder buying processes.\nExperience working with senior technical stakeholders including CIOs, CTOs, Enterprise Architects and technology leadership teams.\nStrong ability to simplify complex technical concepts and connect them to business outcomes.\nStrong executive communication, presentation and workshop facilitation skills.\nCommercially minded, with the ability to understand the relationship between architecture, investment, risk and business value.\nComfortable challenging customers and internal Product/Engineering teams constructively.\nStrong curiosity and ability to learn and communicate emerging technologies, particularly across AI, data and customer experience.\nExecutive presence and credibility without needing to have previously held a CTO or equivalent executive technology position.\nSuccess in the Role\nFirst 30 Days\nBuild relationships with our Global Sales, Channel, Solution Engineering, Product, Engineering and Customer Success teams.\nDevelop a strong understanding of Bloomreach's platform, AI capabilities, architecture, competitive positioning and strategic enterprise accounts.\nBuild familiarity with the broader data, MarTech and commerce ecosystem in which Bloomreach operates.\nFirst 60 Days\nBegin actively supporting strategic enterprise opportunities, participating in customer meetings, architecture discussions, technical workshops and solution reviews.\nEstablish credibility with Sales and technical stakeholders as a trusted technology partner.\nStart identifying common customer architecture challenges and opportunities where Bloomreach can differentiate.\nFirst 90 Days\nLead technical strategy and architecture discussions across multiple strategic enterprise opportunities.\nEstablish trusted relationships with senior customer technology stakeholders.\nDemonstrate the ability to connect customer architecture and technology strategy to Bloomreach's commercial value proposition.\nBecome a recognised internal technology advisor for strategic enterprise sales, bringing customer insight and market knowledge into Sales, Product and Engineering.\nContribute to accelerating complex opportunities, improving technical confidence and strengthening Bloomreach's position within enterprise technology ecosystems.\nMore things you'll like about Bloomreach:\nCulture:\nA great deal of freedom and trust. At Bloomreach we don’t clock in and out, and we have neither corporate rules nor long approval processes. This freedom goes hand in hand with responsibility. We are interested in results from day one. \n\nWe have defined our 5 values and the 10 underlying key behaviors that we strongly believe in. We can only succeed if everyone lives these behaviors day to day. We've embedded them in our processes like recruitment, onboarding, feedback, personal development, performance review and internal communication. \n\nWe believe in flexible working hours to accommodate your working style.\n\nWe work virtual-first with several Bloomreach Hubs available across three continents.\n\nWe organize company events to experience the global spirit of the company and get excited about what's ahead.\n\nWe encourage and support our employees to engage in volunteering activities - every Bloomreacher can take 5 paid days off to volunteer*.\n\nThe Bloomreach Glassdoor page elaborates on our stellar 4.7/5 rating. The Bloomreach Comparably page Culture score is even higher at 4.9/5\n\nPersonal Development:\nWe have a People Development Program - participating in personal development workshops on various topics run by experts from inside the company. We are continuously developing & updating competency maps for select functions.\n\nOur resident communication coach Ivo Večeřa is available to help navigate work-related communications & decision-making challenges.*\n\nOur managers are strongly encouraged to participate in the Leader Development Program to develop in the areas we consider essential for any leader. The program includes regular comprehensive feedback, consultations with a coach and follow-up check-ins.\n\nBloomreachers utilize the $1,500 professional education budget on an annual basis to purchase education products (books, courses, certifications, etc.)*\n\nWell-being:\nThe Employee Assistance Program -- with counselors -- is available for non-work-related challenges.*\n\nSubscription to Calm - sleep and meditation app.*\n\nWe organize ‘DisConnect’ days where Bloomreachers globally enjoy one additional day off each quarter, allowing us to unwind together and focus on activities away from the screen with our loved ones.\n\nWe facilitate sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities for each other.\n\nExtended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers.*\n\nCompensation:\nRestricted Stock Units or Stock Options are granted depending on a team member’s role, seniority, and location.*\n\nEveryone gets to participate in the company's success through the company performance bonus.*\n\nWe offer an employee referral bonus of up to $3,000!\n\nWe reward & celebrate work anniversaries -- Bloomversaries!*\n\n(*Subject to employment type. 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