Senior Lead Field Architect

Braze Braze · Enterprise · Chicago, IL · Sales

The Senior Lead Field Architect at Braze is responsible for the technical strategy of high-stakes deal cycles, ensuring proposed solutions are technically sound and aligned with the prospect's digital transformation roadmap. This role involves leading architecture workshops, managing technical stakeholders, identifying blockers, and developing best-practice blueprints for enterprise scenarios. The ideal candidate has advanced system design expertise, deep knowledge of data strategy and governance, and consulting skills for change management.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead high-level "Future State" architecture workshops, mapping how Braze interacts with the broader enterprise stack (e.g., Snowflake, Salesforce, Adobe, etc.).
  2. Navigate complex technical committees and address concerns from Information Security, Data Governance, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
  3. Identify potential technical blockers early in the sales cycle and design creative, scalable workarounds that do not compromise platform stability.
  4. Develop best-practice blueprints for common enterprise scenarios (e.g., multi-instance global deployments) to be reused across the SolCon org.

Skills

Required

  • Advanced System Design
  • distributed systems
  • integration methods
  • Data Strategy & Governance
  • Zero-Copy and Cloud Data Sharing paradigms
  • Change Management Consulting
  • Competitive Intelligence

Nice to have

  • API proficiency
  • SDK proficiency

What the JD emphasized

  • technical "North Star"
  • end-to-end technical strategy
  • technically sound
  • multi-year digital transformation roadmap
  • technical blockers
  • platform stability
  • common enterprise scenarios
  • API and SDK proficiency
  • Advanced System Design
  • distributed systems
  • integration methods
  • Data Strategy & Governance
  • data is mastered, cleansed, and moved
  • Zero-Copy and Cloud Data Sharing paradigms
  • Change Management Consulting
  • organizational changes
  • modern engagement platform
  • Competitive Intelligence
  • architectural weaknesses
  • modern alternative