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Senior Solution Architect

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years working with Enterprise customers in a technical role
  • Strong experience in solution selling and demonstrating value through software presentations
  • Experience using AI solutions and expertise in cloud computing platforms
  • In-depth understanding of relational and NoSQL databases

Responsibilities

  • Identify technical and business pain points and map success metrics
  • Build and deliver customized demos and lead workshops
  • Cultivate trusted advisor relationships and ensure customers achieve their first win
  • Represent the brand at industry events and provide feedback to Product and Engineering teams

About the company

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Matillion

API & Integration Platforms (iPaaS)

Matillion is the data pipeline platform for data teams to build and manage pipelines faster for AI and analytics - at scale. Matillion empowers data teams to be wildly more productive with no-code and AI capabilities in building pipelines, integrating data wherever it lives and delivering data that’s ready for AI and analytics, while harnessing the processing power and scale of their cloud data platforms and cloud provider.

Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryAPI & Integration Platforms (iPaaS)
Company size501 - 1000

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Job description

Are you ready to shape the future of data?

Matillion is the company behind Maia, the AI Data Automation platform. 

In the AI economy, demand for data is exploding. Manual data engineering can’t keep up. Maia fixes that by combining 15 years of data expertise with agentic AI to eliminate the manual work that slows data teams down. Organisations like Cisco, DocuSign, and Slack are already using it to deliver real business impact, faster.

We started in Manchester and now we’re global - with teams across the UK, US and India.

We are driven, curious, energetic people who move fast, think big and hold ourselves to a high standard. We’re here to make a dent in the universe bigger than ourselves. And we’re looking for people who want to be part of it.


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
  • More about Matillion
     
    We operate a flexible working culture that promotes work-life balance, with benefits including:
    • Company Equity
    • 30 days holiday + bank holiday
    • 5 days paid volunteering leave
    • Private Health Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Pension
    • Access to mental health support
     
    Your Safety
     
    Matillion recruiters will only contact you from @matillion.com email addresses. We occasionally work with trusted recruiting partners; they will always tell you they are working on our behalf. We will never ask for money, fees, or bank details at any point in the hiring process. If something feels off, trust that instinct. Don't click any links. Go straight to matillion.com/careers to verify open roles or reach us at talent@matillion.com.
     
     
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    Don't tick every box? Apply anyway. We hire for potential, not just experience. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.

    Cannot find anything suitable role right now? We still want to hear from you. Drop us a line at talent@matillion.com.
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    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. 

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