Solutions Architect, Commercial (Dublin, Ireland)

<p><strong>About Us</strong></p> Since 2016, dbt Labs has been on a mission to help analysts create and disseminate organizational knowledge. dbt Labs pioneered the practice of analytics engineering, built the primary tool in the analytics engineering toolbox, and has been fortunate enough to see a fantastic community coalesce to help push the boundaries of the analytics engineering workflow. Today there are 30,000 companies using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and over 4,100 dbt Cloud customers. <span>You can learn more about our values </span><a href="https://www.getdbt.com/dbt-labs/values/"><span>here</span></a><span>.</span>   <strong>About the role:</strong>   We’re looking to hire a Solutions Architect, Commercial Dublin to join the Revenue team. As a Solutions Architect, you will lead evaluation, implementation, and adoption of dbt for our commercial customers. <em><strong>This person will be based specifically in Dublin and ideally speaks a 2nd language. Ideally, this role is in office 3 days a week with a flexible schedule. </strong></em>   <strong>In this role, you can expect to: </strong> <ul> <li>Become an expert in designing enterprise-grade data pipelines with dbt Cloud</li> <li>Work hand-in-hand with sales to communicate the technical value of the dbt Labs suite of products</li> <li>Guide customers through proof-of-concept implementations and facilitate trials of dbt Cloud</li> <li>Work with engineering to deploy dbt Cloud in private clouds for enterprise clients</li> <li>Own the full customer lifecycle from pre-sale evaluation to product adoption and expansion</li> <li>Work with product to build and maintain the dbt Cloud enterprise roadmap</li> <li>Build close relationships with our Partners (including companies like Snowflake, AWS, and Databricks) and enable them to adopt and implement dbt for their clients</li> <li>Be an active member of the dbt community</li> <li>Travel ~25% of the time (1 trip per month to assigned territory) </li> </ul> <p><strong>We are looking for someone who has:</strong></p> <ul> <li>2+ years of sales engineering, solutions architecture, or consulting in data operations, analytics, or BI</li> <li>A solid technical background, with experience in SQL, ETL, and data modeling</li> <li>A firm understanding of and ability to discuss modern data warehousing architectures </li> <li>Ability to gather and translate technical and business requirements into concrete solutions</li> <li>Excellent verbal, written, and in-person communication skills to discuss complex topics with both technical and non-technical audiences  </li> <li>Ability to operate in an ambiguous and fast-paced work environment</li> <li>A passion for being an inclusive teammate and involved member of the community</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to haves:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Prior experience working at an analytics, ETL, BI, and/or open-sourced software</li> <li>Knowledge of or prior experience with dbt</li> <li>Experience with Data Modeling methods such as dimensional, data vault, Kimball, 3NF</li> <li>Experience with traditional Enterprise ETL tooling (Informatica, Boomi, Talend)</li> <li>Fluent in Italian, Spanish, French, Hebrew or Portugese (or another language)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Compensation &amp; Benefits:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Competitive Compensation </li> <li>Equity Stake</li> <li><strong>Benefits -</strong> dbt Labs offers: <ul> <li>Unlimited vacation (and yes we use it!)</li> <li>Pension coverage</li> <li>Excellent healthcare</li> <li>Paid Parental Leave</li> <li>Wellness stipend</li> <li>Home office stipend, and more!</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><strong>What to expect in the interview process (all video interviews unless accommodations are needed):</strong></p> <ul> <li>Interview with Talent Acquisition Partner</li> <li>Interview with Hiring Manager</li> <li>Technical Interview with a current Solution Architect</li> <li>Team Interviews + presentation </li> </ul> <p><span>#LI-LA1</span></p> <p><strong>Who we are</strong></p> <p><span>At dbt Labs, we have developed strong opinions on how companies should practice analytics.</span></p> <p><span>Specifically, we believe that:</span></p> <ul> <li>Code-based transformations offer unmatched flexibility and transparency across various “multi-player” development to power everyone in the organization to collaborate on a common language</li> <li><span>Data analysts should adopt similar practices and tools to software developers</span></li> <li><span>Critical analytics infrastructure should be controlled by its users as open source software</span></li> <li><span>Analytic code itself — not just analytics tools — will increasingly be open source</span></li> </ul> <p><span>It turns out that a lot of other people believe this too! Today, there are 30,000 companies using dbt every week, 100,000 dbt Community members, and 4,100 companies paying for dbt Cloud. Our customers include JetBlue, Hubspot, Vod