Starburst · 13 hours ago
Senior Solution Architect
United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$200K/yr - $240K/yrStarburst is the data platform for analytics, applications, and AI, unifying data across clouds and on-premises to accelerate AI innovation. In this role, you will act as a senior technical advisor to enterprise customers, guiding them in designing and implementing modern data architectures and solutions powered by Starburst.
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Responsibilities
Act as a senior technical advisor to strategic enterprise customers, helping them design and implement modern data architectures and solutions powered by Starburst
Build custom solutions, working closely with engineering develop field solutions in customer facing projects
Engage with executives across IT, data, and business teams, translating Starburst’s value into business impact and aligning platform strategy with organizational goals
Define and articulate target-state architectures, including data products, lakehouse, distributed query engines, and cloud-native data platforms
Develop technical strategy in strategic accounts, partnering with account teams to drive long-term vision, remove obstacles, and ensure successful adoption
Guide customers through architectural reviews, best practices, governance models, performance considerations, and security patterns
Influence and drive product direction, representing customer needs and industry trends to Engineering and Product Management
Develop reference architectures, blueprints, and executive-level technical content that communicates best practices and Starburst’s strategic direction
Evangelize modern data architecture principles, helping customers and partners understand how distributed data access, analytics acceleration, and AI workloads benefit from Starburst
Qualification
Required
Deep expertise in modern data architectures, including data lakes, lakehouses and data warehouses
Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid/multi-cloud architecture patterns
Executive presence and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders across technical and business domains
Demonstrated success guiding large-scale data platform transformations and working with enterprise customers
Hands-on proficiency with SQL, data integration, performance tuning, or analytics engineering
Ability to travel as needed for customer and industry engagements
Expertise with kubernetes platforms like EKS, AKS, GKE and Openshift
Benefits
Equity packages (ISOs)
Comprehensive benefits offering
Competitive pay
Attractive stock grants
Flexible paid time off
Company
Starburst
Starburst offers a data lakehouse platform unifying access to distributed data across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
Founded in 2017
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$414MKey Investors
CitiAlkeon CapitalAndreessen Horowitz
2025-05-19Series Unknown
2022-02-09Series D· $250M
2021-01-06Series C· $100M
Leadership Team
Justin Borgman
Chairman & CEO
Anu Sudarsan
Staff Software Engineer and Co-founder
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