# Solutions Architect

**Company:** [Clickhouse](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickhouse)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $200k – $280k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** ClickHouse, Kafka, kinesis, SQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, druid, pinot, duckdb, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Engineering, streaming ingestion
**Posted:** 2026-06-12

> Solutions Architect owning technical evaluations, POCs, and architecture for ClickHouse's commercial segment (sub-250 employee companies). Engage data engineers and founders on ingestion, schema, and analytics use cases to drive technical wins and successful onboarding. Requires deep data engineering background and customer-facing skills.

## Job Description

## What You Will Be Doing
- Own the technical evaluation process for accounts in the sub-250 employee segment — from first technical conversation through POC, architecture sign-off, and successful onboarding.
- Engage directly with data engineers, platform architects, and technical founders to understand their use cases, data volumes, query patterns, and infrastructure requirements — and design ClickHouse solutions that map to those needs.
- Troubleshoot schema design questions, ingestion patterns, and integration challenges during the evaluation process. Be the person who unblocks deals technically so they can close on time.
- Build and deliver reference implementations, POCs, and architecture recommendations that give customers confidence in ClickHouse as a production-grade solution.
- Partner closely with Commercial AEs to progress and close opportunities — you own the technical win, they own the commercial close.
- Advocate for customer needs internally with Product and Engineering — you're the voice of the technical buyer inside ClickHouse.
- Contribute to technical playbooks, objection handling guides, and reusable POC assets that help the team scale what's working.
- Participate in developer community events, technical meetups, and online forums where our users naturally gather — and build credibility as a practitioner, not just a vendor.

## What You Bring
- Deep technical foundation in data engineering or a closely related discipline — built through experience as a data engineer, software engineer, analytics engineer, or similar hands-on role.
- Comfort with the modern data stack: columnar databases, streaming ingestion (Kafka, Kinesis), cloud infrastructure, and SQL-heavy analytics workflows. Hands-on experience with ClickHouse, DuckDB, Druid, Pinot, BigQuery, Snowflake, or similar is a strong plus.
- Some customer-facing experience — whether in pre-sales, technical account management, solutions engineering, or a customer-success capacity. You've navigated technical conversations with real stakes before. If you haven't, you've wanted to.
- An instinct for moving quickly. This segment runs on short cycles. You know how to drive a technical evaluation to a conclusion without letting it drag, and how to remove blockers that stall deals.
- Strong written and verbal communication. You can simplify complex architectural concepts without dumbing them down, and you write clearly enough that your responses actually get read by engineers.
- Curiosity about the business side of technology. You're interested in understanding why companies buy and what success looks like for them — not just what they're building.
- Ownership mentality. You're comfortable operating with autonomy, running evaluations independently, and making judgment calls without a playbook.

## Compensation
The typical starting salary for this role in the US is $200,000–$250,000 USD. The typical starting salary for this role in US Premium Markets is $230,000–$280,000 USD. These salary ranges reflect what we reasonably and in good faith believe to be the minimum and maximum pay for this role at the time of posting.

## Perks
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 20 countries.
- Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
- Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
- Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
- A $500 Home office setup if you’re a remote employee.
- Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.

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