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With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.\nAbout Us\nFivetran and dbt Labs are bringing together two industry-leading companies with a shared mission: helping organizations unlock the full value of their data.\nTogether, we’re delivering the data infrastructure layer that helps organizations move, transform, and trust their data - from the moment data moves, through every transformation, to the context teams and AI systems rely on.\nFivetran helps organizations automate data movement across the systems, clouds, engines, and tools they rely on. dbt Labs pioneered analytics engineering, helping teams transform data into reliable, governed insights. Together, we support thousands of organizations as they build a trusted foundation for analytics, AI, and better business decisions.\nAs we bring our teams and technology together, we’re building on the strengths of both companies while continuing to deliver the products and experiences our customers know and trust. It’s an exciting time to join us: we’re creating a company with the scale, talent, and technology to help more organizations put their data to work with greater speed, confidence, and impact.\nDuring this transition period, you may see references to both Fivetran and dbt Labs throughout our recruiting process as we integrate our teams, systems, and career sites.\nAbout The Role\nA Solutions Architect is a senior pre-sales technical leader who partners with sales, customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to shape technical strategy, design strong dbt-centered solutions, and convert technical progress into predictable commercial outcomes. The role includes the full Senior Solutions Architect foundation and adds broader scope, deeper architectural leadership, stronger influence across complex accounts, and greater contribution to reusable patterns, enablement, and field standards.\nThis role is well suited to someone who enjoys creating opportunities as much as closing them. You’ll play a hands-on role in outbound prospecting, shaping your own pipeline and guiding customers through thoughtful, consultative sales conversations. This is a high-ownership role with significant autonomy and responsibility from day one.\nWhat you'll do: \nLead technical discovery to understand business drivers, technical context, constraints, decision process, and success criteria.\nRun product demonstrations, workshops, evaluations, and proof-oriented engagements that map dbt capabilities to real customer problems.\nDesign pragmatic solution architectures spanning dbt, warehouses, orchestration, BI, governance, and adjacent ecosystem tooling.\nPartner closely with account teams on qualification, technical win criteria, risks, next steps, and forecast accuracy.\nAct as a trusted technical advisor for analytics engineers, data engineers, architects, and technical decision-makers.\nCommunicate complex topics clearly in both written and verbal form, adapting depth and framing to the audience.\nSupport customer adoption and expansion by connecting technical outcomes to additional use cases and long-term platform value.\nModel dbt values through professionalism, curiosity, accountability, collaboration, and a growth mindset.\nSkills we're looking for:\nA strong candidate for this role will typically bring:\nExperience in pre-sales, solutions architecture, sales engineering, or a comparable customer-facing technical role.\nStrong understanding of dbt, analytics engineering, SQL, data transformation, and modern cloud data platforms.\nAbility to lead technical strategy in complex enterprise opportunities with multiple stakeholders and moving parts.\nComfort navigating ambiguity, balancing short-term deal support with long-term architectural quality, and operating in a fast-changing environment.\nEvidence of mentoring, force-multiplying peers, or creating assets and practices that improve team effectiveness.\nStrong executive communication, technical storytelling, and written documentation skills.\nPerks and Benefits\n100% employer-paid medical insurance*\nGenerous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off.\nRSU stock grants*\nProfessional development and training opportunities\nCompany virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities\nMonthly cell phone stipend\nAccess to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.\n* May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information\nClick here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.\nWe’re honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we’re proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes. \nFivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.\nTo learn more about Fivetran’s culture and what it’s like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.\nTo learn more about our candidate privacy policy, you can read our statement here.\nWe are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. 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