United States onlyWe're seeking a Principal Solution Architect to lead our most strategic, complex, and high-impact customer engagements across the modern data ecosystem, with a strong focus on Data Lakes, Transformations, and extended Modern Data Architectures. As a technical thought leader and trusted advisor, you will shape our customers' data integration and AI journeys, while also mentoring fellow architects and influencing Fivetran's product and delivery evolution.
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive experience in enterprise data architecture, solution engineering, or consulting leadership
- Deep technical fluency with the modern data stack, including data ingestion tools, cloud data warehouses, orchestration tools, and observability or metadata catalog solutions
- Demonstrated expertise in enterprise replication from transactional databases into analytical or data lake platforms
- Practical implementation experience with open table formats like Delta Lake or Apache Iceberg
- Strong command of containerized environments, Linux-based deployments, and infrastructure orchestration
- Proven ability to architect solutions at scale—leading end-to-end design for large enterprise clients, optimizing ingestion and transformation flows, driving data governance alignment, and ensuring platform reliability and scalability
- Highly proficient in SQL and scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell—able to build automation frameworks, troubleshoot deployments, and guide teams in operational hand-offs and best practices
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance
- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents
India only
