The Solutions Architect will design and implement data solutions while mentoring engineers, ensuring performance and security, and communicating effectively with clients.
Join phData, a remote-first data and AI consultancy company with employees across the United States, Latin America, and India. We partner with industry leaders, including Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Azure, GCP, Fivetran, Pinecone, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises.
We're growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results.
Why phData?
- Snowflake Implementation Partner of the Year — 7 consecutive years, and 2026 Snowflake AI Partner of the Year
- AWS Premier Tier Services Partner — the highest tier of recognition in the AWS Partner Network
- 2025 Fivetran Partner of the Year (4th consecutive year)
- 2025 dbt Labs Partner of the Year (3x winner) with Visionary partner status
- 2026 KNIME Customer Excellence Partner of the Year
- Preferred Partner in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network
- #1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications
- 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, and more)
- Recognized as an award-winning workplace in the US, India and LATAM
Required Experience:
- 8+ years as a hands-on Solutions Architect and/or Data Engineer designing and implementing data solutions
- Team lead, and/or mentorship of other engineers
- Ability to develop end-to-end technical solutions into production — and to help ensure performance, security, scalability, and robust data integration.
- Programming expertise in Java, Python and/or Scala
- Core cloud data platforms including Snowflake, AWS, Azure, Databricks and GCP
- SQL and the ability to write, debug, and optimize SQL queries
- Client-facing written and verbal communication skills and experience
- Create and deliver detailed presentations
- Detailed solution documentation (e.g. including POCS and roadmaps, sequence diagrams, class hierarchies, logical system views, etc.)
- 4-year Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
Prefer any of the following:
- Production experience in core data platforms: Snowflake, AWS, Azure, GCP, Hadoop, Databricks
- Cloud and Distributed Data Storage: S3, ADLS, HDFS, GCS, Kudu, ElasticSearch/Solr, Cassandra or other NoSQL storage systems
- Data integration technologies: Spark, Kafka, event/streaming, Streamsets, Matillion, Fivetran, NiFi, AWS Data Migration Services, Azure DataFactory, Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS), Google DataProc or other data integration technologies
- Multiple data sources (e.g. queues, relational databases, files, search, API)
- Complete software development lifecycle experience including design, documentation, implementation, testing, and deployment
- Automated data transformation and data curation: dbt, Spark, Spark streaming, automated pipelines
- Workflow Management and Orchestration: Airflow, AWS Managed Airflow, Luigi, NiFi
Why phData? We offer:
- Remote-First Work Environment
- Casual, award-winning small-business work environment
- Collaborative culture that prizes autonomy, creativity, and transparency
- Competitive comp, excellent benefits, 4 weeks PTO plus 10 Holidays (and other cool perks)
- Accelerated learning and professional development through advanced training and certifications
#LI-DNI
phData celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. 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. If you would like to request an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at People Operations.
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