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Solution Architect-North Central
SalesWorkplace — Chicago, Minneapolis, North Central United States
Published on 2026-11-02
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About this role
Own the technical side of enterprise sales evaluations for ClickHouse across the North Central region. Design and validate production-scale data architectures, demonstrate competitive advantages, and guide customers through migration to their first production workload.
About the company
ClickHouse is a high-performance columnar database built for real-time analytics on large volumes of data.
The team
Go-To-Market
Stack
ClickHouseSnowflakeBigQueryAmazon RedshiftDruidPinotVerticaElasticsearch
What you'll do
- Lead enterprise technical evaluations from discovery and proof of concept through architecture approval and production deployment.
- Design scalable architectures covering sizing, sharding, replication, ingestion, storage tiers, and failure handling.
- Run reproducible benchmarks and lead competitive displacements.
- Create migration plans covering sequencing, dual-running, validation, and cutover.
- Support security reviews, compliance requirements, and private deployment architectures.
- Partner with enterprise account executives on technical wins and total-cost-of-ownership cases.
- Bring customer feedback to Product and Engineering and develop reusable technical materials.
What we're looking for
- Deep technical foundation in data infrastructure and production experience operating analytical databases.
- Knowledge of distributed systems, including partitioning, replication, consistency, and query execution.
- Fluency with modern data stacks, including Kafka or CDC, orchestration, object storage, BI tools, and a major cloud platform.
- Experience winning a technical evaluation against a named competitor and planning migration from an incumbent.
- Customer-facing experience and the ability to communicate with engineers and executives.
- Comfort managing lengthy enterprise sales cycles and multiple stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Prior pre-sales experience.
Benefits
- Equity in the form of stock options.
- Flexible time off.
- Employer contributions toward healthcare.
- Remote employees receive a $500 home-office setup allowance.
- Opportunities to attend company-wide offsites.