The Senior Solution Architect will drive technical wins, support pre-sales, foster customer relationships, and ensure successful platform adoption.
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Matillion is scaling rapidly, and we are looking for a Senior Solution Architect to join #TeamGreen during this period of exciting expansion. This is a high-impact role centered on securing the technical win and maximizing value for our prospective enterprise customers.
We are looking for a consultative technical expert who can own the pre-sales lifecycle—from qualifying complex use cases and managing high-stakes software trials to demonstrating exactly how Matillion’s platform solves mission-critical data challenges. You won't just be "demoing" software; you’ll be driving measurable business value and fostering the long-term relationships that underpin our growth.
Sales & Validation Cycle
- Diagnose & Map: Identify technical and business pain points, confirm root causes, and map the desired future state to specific success metrics and business outcomes.
- Tailored Proofs: Build and deliver customized demos and lead workshops, trials, or POCs that validate the solution’s fit while positioning competitive advantages.
- Technical Alignment: Support digital sales rooms and credit sizing estimates, ensuring technical teams and sales strategies are perfectly aligned.
Post Sales Onboarding & Growth
- Adoption & Value: Cultivate "trusted advisor" relationships to set up infrastructure, monitor adoption dashboards, and ensure customers rapidly achieve their first "win."
- Engagement & Cadence: Actively lead business reviews and customer cadences to ensure platform adoption remains high and technical issues are resolved proactively.
- Strategic Expansion: Identify opportunities for upselling and expansion by moving the customer into new workloads and groups, ensuring they realize maximum ROI
Strategy, Product, & Brand
- Technical Evangelism: Represent the brand as an expert at industry events and create technical content or case studies that showcase real-world problem-solving.
- Product Feedback Loop: Collect customer insights and relay them to Product and Engineering teams to drive continuous improvement and market alignment.
- Market Intelligence: Stay ahead of industry trends in cloud computing and data transformation, sharing that knowledge internally and with customers to maintain a competitive edge.
Must haves:
- 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 (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, n8n)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.
Good to haves:
- 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 compensation in line with market standards based on the role, job family, job level, and country. This role’s estimated annual salaried pay range for this position is £71,680 - £107,520. Because this role is eligible for variable pay in the form of sales commissions, your total annual on-target annual earnings will be between £102,400 - £153,600. The final salary will be based on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications demonstrated in the hiring process.
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
- 30 days holiday + bank holidays
- 5 days paid volunteering leave
- Health insurance
- Life Insurance
- Access to mental health support
- Pension
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
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APIs
AWS
Azure
Cassandra
Databricks
DynamoDB
GCP
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Linux
MongoDB
MySQL
Oracle
Postgres
Python
Snowflake
SQL
SQL Server
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