Staff Solutions Architect, New Logo - Central
At a glance
Senior role at Temporal Technologies. Remote, United States · full-time · $168,000–$220,500 base.
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What you'll do
- Help prospects judge whether their applications suit Temporal, then explain the platform and cloud service’s technical tradeoffs
- Show how Temporal compares with other technologies and technical approaches during customer evaluations
- Guide engineering teams toward running more production applications with Temporal
- Build account plans with Account Executives and maintain relationships with technical decision-makers
- Advise customers on evaluating and operating Temporal applications
What you bring
- Strong technical communication across presentations, whiteboards and writing
- You can prototype applications and guide design, development, builds and deployment in a supported language
- You can discuss distributed systems, production operations and application architecture with customers
- You have experience with a major cloud provider and services used to build and run applications
Who this fits
This senior, customer-facing role suits a technical leader who can advise engineering teams and work alongside sales. It covers the Central region and is remote, with travel expected at twenty-five to fifty percent.
From the employer
Role Summary
The Staff Solutions Architect is Temporal's primary customer-facing technical leader within the New Logo team, with a focus on the Central region. In this crucial role, you’ll work directly with prospects and customers, guiding them in understanding the suitability of their applications for Temporal’s platform and showcasing the technical advantages of our cloud service. Your contribution is vital in positioning Temporal against alternative technologies, helping customer engineering teams expand production applications using Temporal, and owning the technical relationship with key decision-makers. Your role is integral to our success.
What You'll Do
Help prospects understand if their application is suitable for Temporal
Help customers & prospects understand the technical benefits and drawbacks of the Temporal platform and cloud service
Position Temporal successfully against alternative technologies or technical patterns
Create the conditions in customer engineering organizations that allow them to expand the number of production applications using Temporal
Partner with Account Executives to develop and execute an overall account plan
Own the relationship with customer technical decision-makers in evaluating and operating temporal applications.
Travel expected to be 25-50%
What You'll Bring
Excellent technical communication skills (presenting, whiteboarding, writing)
Comfortable discussing distributed system technologies, design decisions, and best practices
Able to construct application prototypes and follow through with design, development, build, and deployment guidance using one of Temporal’s supported languages (Java, Golang, Typescript, Python, PHP)
Conversant in topics related to operating applications in production, such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations
Can offer helpful advice and good arguments to customers on architectural topics like application patterns and platform architectures
Comfortable working with at least one of the major cloud providers and using the various services commonly employed for application development & production
Serve as a technical advisor to Sales Account Executives - can help identify good/poor fit use cases, assist with scoping and sizing of opportunities, and anticipate where customer technical choices will work for or against Temporal
Nice to Have
Likes to learn new technical topics, often directly from Engineering
Can come up to speed without any sales-specific training (i.e., from docs, videos & conversations)
Partners well with engineers working at customer organizations
Serves as a good technical coach: likes to find ways to make others look smart
Temporal Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Temporal Technologies does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We embrace and celebrate differences and diversity.
Temporal is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation, please let your Recruiter know so we can assist.
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