[Hiring] Resident Solution Architect @Fivetran

Role Description

Fivetran is building data pipelines to power the modern data stack for thousands of companies. We’re seeking an experienced Resident Solution Architect with a passion for solving challenging problems with dbt to join our Professional Services team. RSAs are billable to dbt Platform Enterprise customers and help achieve our mission to empower data developers to create and disseminate organizational knowledge. This is a full-time position based in the United States, with a focus on MST, CST, and EST timezones.

Technologies You’ll Use

• dbt Platform and dbt Core for data modeling, testing, documentation, development workflows, and jobs
• SQL and Jinja for building and maintaining data transformations
• Python for scripting and integrations as needed
• Cloud data platforms, such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift
• Git and GitHub, including branching, pull requests, and CI/CD workflows
• Data ingestion and integration tools, including Fivetran, plus APIs and connectors
• Cloud and orchestration tools used in customer environments; the specific tools will vary by engagement

What You’ll Do

• Work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects — inclusive of implementation, troubleshooting configurations, instilling best practices, and solutioning MVPs and long term solutions to customer specific requirements
• Consult on architecture and design
• Ensure our most strategic dbt platform customers are adopting the product
• Collaborate with other internal customer facing teams at dbt Labs - Sales, Solution Architects, Training, Support
• Provide critical feedback to dbt Labs product and engineering teams to improve and prioritize customer requests and ensure rapid resolution for engagement specific issues
• Become a product expert with dbt in the context of the modern data stack (if you aren't already)

Qualifications

• Deep experience working with enterprise customers across a variety of use cases, ideally in a customer-facing post-sales, technical architect, or consulting role
• Deep expertise in at least one data platform (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift)
• At least 2 years of experience with dbt, ideally including 1 year with dbt platform
• Proficient in writing SQL and have some Python experience
• Customer focused - embracing one of our core values that users are our best advocates
• Highly organized with comfort in technical project delivery - managing scope, timelines, and deliverables
• Clear and concise communication with internal and external stakeholders
• Thrive in a remote organization that highly values transparency and cross-collaboration
• ~10% travel should be expected (occasional customer visits, company retreat and offsites)

Bonus Skills

• Obtained the dbt Analytics Engineering Certification
• Ability to advise on dbt Platform recommendations, and build direction/consensus with the customer to move forward
• Experience with traditional Enterprise ETL tooling (Informatica, Datastage, Talend)

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance
• Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest, and volunteer days off
• RSU stock grants
• Professional development and training opportunities
• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
• Monthly cell phone stipend
• Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents