As a Senior Solution Architect, you will engage with enterprise customers to understand their needs, deliver tailored software solutions, conduct trials, and drive customer relationships and growth through solution selling and product feedback.
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About the role
The Senior Solution Architect at Matillion plays a key role in securing the technical win and maximizing ACV with prospective enterprise customers. This role is responsible for qualifying customer use cases, demonstrating how Matillion’s solutions solve their challenges, managing software trials, and driving business value through the platform. The Solution Architect is a consultative and adaptable team player who combines solution selling, technical expertise, and a customer-centric approach to engage in high-level technical discussions and foster long-term customer relationships.
What you will be doing;
Discovering Customer Requirements
- Diagnose technical and business pain, confirming root causes and negative consequences.
- Engage key stakeholders to confirm desired future state, mapping it to success metrics and business outcomes.
- Support customer digital sales rooms, providing technical input and ensuring alignment between sales and technical teams.
Qualifying Use Cases
- Deliver tailored demos that align with business issues, decision criteria, and outcomes.
- Articulate how our platform solves customer challenges, differentiate against competitors, and verify with real-world proof points.
Validating Solution Fit
- Lead workshops, trials, or POCs to validate solution fit with business objectives.
- Position competitive advantages to influence trial success criteria.
- Guide customer teams to integrate our solutions into their data stacks during trials while driving measurable business outcomes.
- Support technical aspects of credit sizing estimates.
Customer Onboarding and Growth
- Document customer insights during the sales cycle to ensure a smooth handoff to TAMs for successful implementations.
- Actively support customer cadences and business review meetings ensuring platform adoption, achievement of business goals, and driving customer engagement.
- Identify and drive opportunities for upselling and expansion, ensuring customers realise value by increasing platform consumption through new workloads and groups.
Marketing and Thought Leadership
- Create technical content and case studies that demonstrate how Matillion’s solutions address customer challenges.
- Represent Matillion as a technical expert at industry events, conferences, and user groups, fostering a strong brand presence.
Product Feedback & Improvement
- Collect and communicate customer feedback to the Product and Engineering teams, ensuring continuous product improvements and alignment with market needs.
- Stay informed about industry trends and best practices in data integration, cloud computing, and data transformation, sharing insights with both customers and internal teams.
What we are looking for
- 5-7 years working with Enterprise customers in a technical role, such as Solution Architect, Sales Engineer, or similar
- Strong experience in solution selling, demonstrating value through tailored software presentations and overcoming technical objections.
- Experience using and preferably selling AI and agentic AI solutions
- Expertise in cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and experience with Cloud Data Platforms like Snowflake and Databricks.
- In-depth understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB).
- Hands-on experience with technical problem-solving and integration technologies (APIs, Linux, SQL).
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of with Matillion’s Data Productivity Cloud or Matillion ETL platforms as well as competitive ETL solutions
- Experience with value-based sales motion, especially through MEDDPPICC and Command of the Message
- Knowledge of big data technologies (Spark, PySpark), data lakes, and MPP databases (Teradata, Vertica, Netezza)
- Familiarity with version control tools such as Git, and experience with Python
- Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Experience using Salesforce
At Matillion, we are committed to providing competitive compensation in line with market standards based on the role, job family, job level, and country. This exempt role’s estimated annual salaried pay range for this position is $126,000 - $189,000. Because this role is eligible for variable pay in the form of sales commissions, your total on-target annual earnings will be between $180,000 - $270,000. The final salary will be based on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications demonstrated in the hiring process.
This job posting will be closed to applications on 10/4/2025. Please submit your application in advance of this time. We’ll be responding to applications as quickly as possible, post the closing date.
At Matillion, we’re here to do something hard - change the way the world works with data, and build a great company along the way. Big, bold goals aren’t for the faint-hearted, and we don’t shy away from them. But we don’t do it alone. No egos, no politics - just great people working together, guided by our six core values;
- Confidence without arrogance
- Working with integrity
- Customer obsessed
- Innovate and demand quality
- Bias for action
- We care
We operate a flexible working culture that promotes work-life balance, with benefits including:
- Company Equity
- 25 days PTO
- 5 days paid volunteering leave
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Access to mental health support
- 401K
More about Matillion
Thousands of enterprises including Cisco, London Stock Exchange Group, EDF and Slack trust Matillion for a wide range of use cases from insights and operational analytics, to data science, machine learning and AI. We are a truly global workforce, dual headquartered in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado, with expanding offices in Hyderabad, India, along with valuable remote colleagues around the world.
We are keen to hear from prospective Matillioners, so even if you don't feel you match all the criteria please apply and a member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch. Alternatively, if you're interested in Matillion but don't see a suitable role, please email [email protected].
Find out more about life on #TeamGreen here.
Matillion is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our team. Matillion prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Matillion does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Top Skills
APIs
AWS
Azure
Cassandra
Databricks
DynamoDB
GCP
Git
Linux
MongoDB
MySQL
Oracle
Postgres
Python
Snowflake
SQL
SQL Server
Matillion Denver, Colorado, USA Office
WeWork Wells Fargo Center, Denver, CO, United States, 80203
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