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We partner with industry leaders, including Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises.\nWe're growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results.\nWhy phData?\nSnowflake Implementation Partner of the Year - 7 consecutive years, and 2026 Snowflake AI Partner of the Year\nAWS Premier Tier Services Partner - the highest tier of recognition in the AWS Partner Network\n 2025 Fivetran Partner of the Year (4th consecutive year)\n 2025 dbt Labs Partner of the Year (3x winner) with Visionary partner status\n2026 KNIME Customer Excellence Partner of the Year\n Preferred Partner in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network\n#1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications\n600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, and more)\nRecognized as an award-winning workplace in the US, India and LATAM\nRole Overview\nWe are looking for a Sr. Solutions Architect - Managed Services to join our Elastic Platform Operations (EPO) team. In this role, you will operate, mature, and optimize modern cloud data platforms spanning streaming, data lakes, data warehouses, and analytics to ensure performance, security, scalability, and user satisfaction. You will collaborate closely with clients, internal engineering and support teams, and practice leadership to deliver high-quality solutions and advance phData’s delivery excellence.\nKey Responsibilities\nClient Delivery\nOwn and drive the operation, reliability, and continuous improvement of modern cloud data platforms (streaming, data lakes, data warehouses, and analytics) for enterprise customers.\nTranslate business and technical requirements into robust cloud-native data platform architectures and implementation plans that align with phData methodologies, standards, and best practices.\nEnsure engagements are delivered on time, within scope, and with measurable business value by providing architectural guidance and hands-on operational support for platforms such as Snowflake and Amazon Redshift.\nProactively identify and articulate best practices, platform optimizations, and automation opportunities to help customers get the most value from their Cloud Data Platform.\nCollaboration & Leadership\nCollaborate with cross-functional partners (engineering, analytics, ML, support, and others) to design, build, and operate modern data platforms for our clients.\nAct as a technical leader across multiple simultaneous customer accounts, skillfully navigating complex environments and aligning stakeholders on priorities and approaches.\nProvide technical and strategic leadership during workshops, discovery sessions, design reviews, and operational reviews, including creating and delivering detailed technical presentations.\nEnsure high quality in deliverables through rigorous troubleshooting, performance tuning, documentation, testing, governance, and change management.\nPartner with practice and account leaders to build Epics, Stories, and Tasks that mature and improve customer data platforms, delegating effectively to Engineers and ensuring successful and timely delivery.\nPractice & Firm Contribution\nContribute to internal initiatives such as codifying operational best practices, building accelerators, templates, and playbooks, and enhancing our cloud data platform offerings.\nContinually hunt for ways to automate and optimize existing processes, tooling, and workflows, and share improvements with the broader team.\nTrain and mentor engineers on new technology stacks, operational practices, and platform standards.\nRepresent phData with professionalism in all interactions, communicating clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nAdditional Responsibilities\nAct as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, shaping data platform roadmaps, influencing strategic decisions, and guiding long-term initiatives.\nMentor and coach team members, fostering a culture of learning, feedback, and continuous improvement in cloud data platform operations.\nHelp define and refine practice standards, reusable assets, and delivery frameworks for cloud-native data platforms and managed services.\nLead complex incident response and post-incident review efforts, driving systemic improvements that enhance performance, reliability, and user satisfaction.\nAbout You\nYou are a client-focused technical leader and problem solver who enjoys operating and improving complex cloud data platforms, driving automation, and coaching engineers to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. You are comfortable working in a fast-paced, outcomes-driven environment with distributed, global teams and partnering closely with clients across time zones.\nRequired Qualifications\nExperience\n10+ years of experience in modern cloud data platforms, data warehousing, consulting, and data engineering/operations.\nTechnical / Functional Skills\nExtensive experience providing architectural guidance and operational support for cloud-native data warehouses such as Snowflake and/or Amazon Redshift across a large user base.\nExpertise with cloud-native data technologies in AWS and/or Azure, including services such as S3, Aurora, Athena, Redshift, SageMaker, Azure SQL/DevOps, and Azure Data Factory.\nProduction support experience in large enterprise environments supporting cloud data platforms and a variety of cloud data technologies.\nStrong working knowledge of SQL, with the ability to write, debug, and optimize complex queries for performance and maintainability.\nStrong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and database administration skills for cloud data platforms.\nActive daily use of AI coding tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or equivalent) with demonstrated judgment about when to trust, verify, and correct AI-generated output. \nAbility to describe specific engineering tasks completed with AI assistance.\nConsulting / Delivery Skills\nExperience delivering projects for external or internal clients in a professional services or consulting environment.\nAbility to break down complex, ambiguous platform challenges into structured, actionable steps and drive them through to completion.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills in English, including the ability to create and deliver detailed presentations to client and internal audiences.\nCollaboration & Ownership\nDemonstrated ability to work effectively with distributed and cross-functional teams (including engineering, analytics, and support) to ensure seamless project delivery and high customer satisfaction.\nProven track record of taking ownership, managing multiple priorities across several customer accounts, and delivering high-quality work with minimal supervision.\nProven experience learning new technology stacks, training team members, and creating, challenging, and improving processes and procedures.\nEducation\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nPreferred Qualifications\nPreferred qualifications help candidates stand out but are not required for success in this role.\nProduction and/or database administration experience and certifications in core data platforms such as Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP, Hadoop, or Databricks.\nProduction experience with cloud and distributed data storage technologies such as S3, ADLS, HDFS, GCS, Kudu, Elasticsearch/Solr, Cassandra, or other NoSQL storage systems.\nProduction experience with data integration technologies such as Spark, Kafka, event/streaming platforms, StreamSets, Matillion, Fivetran, HVR, NiFi, AWS Data Migration Service, Azure Data Factory, Google Dataproc, or similar tools.\nProduction experience with workflow management and orchestration tools such as Airflow, AWS Managed Airflow, Luigi, or NiFi.\nWorking experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation.\nStrong expertise in a scripting language (preferably Python) to automate repetitive tasks and improve operational efficiency.\nExperience with continuous integration and deployment frameworks and tools such as Bitbucket, GitHub, Flyway, and Liquibase.\nExperience as a technical team lead, providing direction, coaching, and support to engineers.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.\nLocation & Time Zone Expectations\nThis role is based in the US and operates primarily in Central and Eastern time zones.\nWe are a remote-first company, and you should be comfortable working with a distributed global team.\nSome flexibility may 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Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. So, regardless of how your diversity expresses itself, you can find a home here at phData. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, genetic information, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 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