Staff Solutions Architect, Majors
Serve as a strategic technical advisor to enterprise prospects and customers, guiding evaluations, architecture, implementation, and adoption of Temporal. The role requires distributed-systems expertise, application prototyping skills, cloud experience, strong technical communication, and close partnership with sales.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary customer-facing technical leader for enterprise customers in the Central region.
- Guide prospects and customers through technical evaluation, architecture, implementation, and adoption of Temporal.
- Support new-business and expansion opportunities in partnership with Account Executives and Platform Architects.
- Own key technical relationships and position Temporal against alternative technologies and architectural patterns.
- Present, whiteboard, and write clearly for technical and business audiences.
- Build application prototypes and provide design, development, build, and deployment guidance.
- Advise on production concerns including security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations.
- Guide customers through complex application-pattern and platform-architecture decisions.
- Develop account plans, scope opportunities, identify technical risks, and navigate complex evaluations.
- Travel 25–50%.
Requirements
- Reside within the Central time zone in the United States.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, design principles, and best practices.
- Proficiency in one or more of Java, Go, TypeScript, Python, C#, or PHP.
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider and commonly used enterprise application and infrastructure services.
- Experience serving as a strategic technical advisor to sales account executives.
- Exceptional technical communication skills, including presenting, whiteboarding, and technical writing.
Skills
Distributed Systems, Java, Go, TypeScript, Python, C#, PHP, Cloud Computing, Application Architecture, Platform Architecture, Security, Reliability, Performance Optimization, Cost Management, Technical Communication
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