Senior Solutions Architect - New Logo - West

Temporal · Enterprise · United States · Solutions Architecture

Senior Solutions Architect for Temporal's New Logo team in the Western region. This role involves working directly with prospects and customers to assess application suitability for Temporal's platform, demonstrate technical advantages, position Temporal against competitors, and expand production application adoption. The role also entails managing technical relationships with key decision-makers and partnering with Account Executives.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with prospects to determine if their applications fit Temporal’s platform well.
  2. Educate customers and prospects on the technical benefits and limitations of Temporal’s platform and cloud service.
  3. Position Temporal as a leading solution against competing technologies and architectural patterns.
  4. Foster an environment within customer engineering organizations to increase the adoption and expansion of Temporal in production environments.
  5. Partner closely with Account Executives to develop and execute comprehensive account plans.

Skills

Required

  • Deep understanding of distributed system technologies, design principles, and best practices.
  • Proficiency in building application prototypes and providing design, development, build, and deployment guidance using one or more of Temporal’s supported languages: Java, Golang, TypeScript, Python, C# or PHP.
  • Firm grasp of operational considerations in production environments, such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations.
  • Ability to provide insightful advice on architectural topics, including application patterns and platform architectures.
  • Experience with at least one major cloud provider and familiarity with commonly used application development and production services.
  • Serve as a strategic technical advisor to Sales Account Executives, assisting with scoping and sizing opportunities and offering guidance on technical fit and challenges.

Nice to have

  • Exceptional technical communication skills, including presenting, whiteboarding, and writing.

What the JD emphasized

  • technical leader
  • technical advantages
  • technical relationship
  • technical decision-makers
  • technical fit
  • technical communication skills
  • technical advisor