Staff Solutions Architect, Banking
Provides strategic technical architecture guidance to prospects and customers, prototypes applications, and drives adoption of Temporal’s platform. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud services, production operations, and strong customer-facing communication.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with prospects to determine whether their applications fit Temporal’s platform.
- Educate customers and prospects on the technical benefits and limitations of Temporal’s platform and cloud service.
- Position Temporal as a leading solution against competing technologies and architectural patterns.
- Foster adoption and expansion of Temporal in customer production environments.
- Partner with Account Executives to develop and execute comprehensive account plans.
- Manage and nurture relationships with technical decision-makers, ensuring they fully leverage Temporal’s capabilities.
Requirements
- Reside within Bangalore, India.
- Exceptional technical communication skills, including presenting, whiteboarding, and writing.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems technologies, design principles, and best practices.
- Proficiency building application prototypes and providing design, development, build, and deployment guidance using one or more of Temporal’s supported languages: Java, Golang, TypeScript, Python, C#, or PHP.
- Strong understanding of production operational considerations, including security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations.
- Ability to advise on architectural topics, including application patterns and platform architectures.
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider and familiarity with commonly used application development and production services.
- Serve as a strategic technical advisor to Sales Account Executives, assisting with opportunity scoping and sizing and providing guidance on technical fit and challenges.
Nice to Haves
- Prior experience with FinTech and/or financial services.
- Willingness to learn new technical topics, often directly from Engineering.
- Ability to come up to speed without sales-specific training.
- Strong partnership skills when working with engineers at customer organizations.
Compensation and Benefits
- Estimated base salary and variable compensation range: ₹8,000,000–₹10,000,000.
- Compensation has a 70/30 base-to-variable split.
- International benefits vary by country and include paid time off, learning and career development, lifestyle spending, home office setup, professional memberships, work-from-home meals, and access to the Calm app.
- Occasional travel may be required for company events, team offsites, and other in-person activities.
Skills
Temporal, Distributed Systems, Java, Go, TypeScript, Python, C#, PHP, Cloud Computing, Application Architecture, Platform Architecture, Security, Reliability, Performance
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