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Senior Customer Solutions Resident Architect

dbt Labs is on a mission to empower data practitioners to create and disseminate organizational knowledge.

dbt Labs

Employee count: 201-500

Salary: 146k-180k USD

United States only

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About Us

dbt Labs is the pioneer of analytics engineering, helping data teams transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights. Since 2016, we’ve grown from an open source project into the leading analytics engineering platform, now used by over 90,000 teams every week, driving data transformations and AI use cases.

As of February 2025, we’ve surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serve more than 5,400 dbt Platform customers, including AstraZeneca, Sky, Nasdaq, Volvo, JetBlue, and SafetyCulture.

We’re backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. At our core, we believe in empowering data practitioners:

  • Reliable, high-quality data is the fuel that propels AI-powered data engineering.

  • AI is changing data work, fast. dbt’s data control plane keeps data engineers ahead of that curve.
  • We empower engineers to deliver reliable, governed data faster, cheaper, and at scale.

dbt Labs is now synonymous with analytics engineering, defining the modern data stack and serving as the data control plane for enterprise teams around the world. And we’re just getting started.. We’re growing fast and building a team of passionate, curious people across the globe. Learn more about what makes us special by checking out our values.

Location: Remote, US

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Customer Solutions Resident Architects to join our team. In this role, you will drive critical customer outcomes by delivering high-impact technical guidance to strategic accounts. You will be part of a high-visibility initiative that supports pre-sales, accelerates adoption, enables key migrations, and mitigates churn risks.

This role is designed to deploy RA-level expertise flexibly, aligning with customer and business needs to drive growth, retention, and expansion.

What You'll Do

  • Accelerate Customer Success Across the Lifecycle
    • Support strategic pre-sales opportunities by providing technical expertise to prospects
    • Assist in launching and onboarding new customers who have not purchased RA services, ensuring they successfully adopt dbt Cloud
    • Execute proactive adoption plays, including migrations, new feature implementations (e.g., Semantic Layer, Mesh), and major version upgrades
    • Lead reactive adoption initiatives to de-risk churn or contraction and position accounts for future growth
  • Deliver Technical Excellence
    • Advise on architecture, design, implementation, troubleshooting, and best practices in dbt Cloud environments
    • Build solution MVPs and guide long-term technical strategies tailored to customer needs
    • Engage on multiple projects simultaneously with clear scoping, start and end dates, and outcome tracking
  • Collaborate Across Teams
    • Partner closely with Customer Solutions Architects (CSAs), Sales, Solutions Architects, Training, and Support
    • Provide feedback to Product and Engineering to improve customer experience and prioritize technical needs
    • Champion customer success through thoughtful, transparent communication and cross-functional collaboration
  • Advance Best Practices and Team Impact
    • Help build out and refine this evolving function alongside the broader RA organization
    • Track and manage capacity and engagement effectiveness similarly to other RA-led initiatives

What You'll Need

  • 5+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as post-sales consulting, technical architecture, or solution delivery
  • Expertise with at least one modern cloud data platform (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, or Redshift)
  • Hands-on experience deploying or configuring dbt Cloud, with at least 1 year working with dbt
  • Strong proficiency in SQL; working knowledge of Python in analytics contexts preferred
  • Comfort leading technical project delivery — managing scope, timelines, and stakeholder expectations across multiple simultaneous engagements
  • Clear, concise communication skills for both technical and executive audiences
  • A collaborative mindset — thriving in a remote, transparent, and highly cross-functional organization
  • Willingness to travel 2–4 times per year for company-wide events

What Will Make You Stand Out

  • dbt Analytics Engineering Certification
  • Ability to influence technical direction and build consensus across internal and customer teams
  • Experience with traditional enterprise ETL tools (e.g., Informatica, Datastage, Talend) and how they relate to modern data workflows
  • Familiarity with strategic sales or renewal processes, including proactive and reactive adoption efforts
  • Proven success accelerating usage, adoption, and expansion in large, complex accounts

Remote Hiring Process

  • Interview with a Talent Acquisition Partner
  • Interview with Hiring Manager
  • Task
  • Task Review
  • Final Values Interview

Benefits

  • Unlimited vacation time with a culture that actively encourages time off
  • 401k plan with 3% guaranteed company contribution
  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Health & wellness stipend
  • Flexible stipends for:
    • Home office setup
    • Learning and development
    • Office space
    • And more!

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation packages commensurate with experience, including salary, equity, and where applicable, performance-based pay. Our Talent Acquisition Team can answer questions around dbt Lab’s total rewards during your interview process.

In Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York Metro, San Francisco, DC Metro, Seattle, and Austin, an alternate range may apply, as specified below.

  • The typical starting salary range for this role in the specific locations listed is: $163,000 - $200,000
  • The typical starting salary range for this role is: $146,000 - $180,000

dbt Labs is an equal opportunity employer, committed to building an inclusive team that welcomes diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. Even if your experience doesn’t perfectly align with the job description, we encourage you to apply—we value potential just as much as a perfect resume.

Want to learn more about our focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at dbt Labs? Check out our DEI page.

dbt Labs reserves the right to amend or withdraw the posting at any time. For employees outside the United States, dbt Labs offers a competitive benefits package. RSUs or comparable benefits may be offered depending on the legal or country limitations.

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About dbt Labs

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dbt Labs is on a mission to empower data practitioners to create and disseminate organizational knowledge.

Our values

Initially penned before the company was even founded, our values have been the foundation on which we've built a company, and a movement.

We are a mission-driven company. We believe that profits are an important tool in the pursuit of our mission, but they are not the mission itself.

We contribute to the knowledge loop. The highest goal of any human is to produce new knowledge that can subsequently be built upon by others. This is the process upon which every good thing in human society has been built. We participate in this most fundamental of human endeavors by thinking in public and defaulting to open source.

We are more concerned with value creation than value capture. We will only succeed if we create value in the world. If we optimize for that first, commercial success will follow.

Work done well is its own end. We do great work because it is an expression of who we are, a contribution of our unique talents and perspectives to a purpose larger than ourselves. Work done well creates ripples in the pond.

Transparency always wins. There are countless examples of choices that we all have in our professional lives of just how honest we want to be. We choose to be completely honest, even when that is uncomfortable, or even when it would lead to short-term negative consequences. We believe that transparency is a north star, and that acting transparently is always in the long-term best interests of achieving our mission.

We value diversity. People with different mindsets and experiences, working together, create better outcomes. This includes diversity of race and gender, as well as the diversity of academic backgrounds, socio-economic backgrounds, geographic backgrounds, ideologies, and interests.

Users are our best advocates. We market our products and services by working with amazing humans, making them incredibly happy, and asking them to spread the word. We go above and beyond for our clients / users to invest in our future growth.

We are humble. While we believe that we are building something exceptional, that knowledge does not make us feel proud, it makes us feel humble. It imbues us with a deep sense of responsibility towards our clients, coworkers, and the community at large.

We optimize for the long-term. While we pursue the mission with intense focus, we recognize that creating the change in the world that we wish to see will not happen overnight. We think, plan, and act for the long-term.

We work hard and go home. We take our responsibilities as parents, citizens, individuals, family members, and members of our various communities just as seriously as we take our commitments at work. When we are on, we are focused. When we are off, we are free to be fully disconnected.

We are human. We are human beings innovating in a shared service to a mission. We structure our compensation and benefits, work hours and location policies, work and management styles, and employee agreements to support this fundamental human-ness. We bring our whole selves to work, and we recognize that our identities extend beyond the work that we do.

We believe in moving up the stack. We believe that all team members should seek to replace themselves on an ongoing basis by building processes, technology, and documentation that obviate their existing work. We have an abundance mindset: there is always more, and more valuable, work to do. Moving up the stack presents growth opportunities for both the individual and the team.

Values are more important than success. We are not interested in success absent the values in this document. We have strongly held opinions on how a company should be built and these are non-negotiable. We do not believe that these opinions are an absolute truth, but they are an absolute truth for us.

Employee benefits

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Disability insurance

We provide long term and short term disability coverage to all US-based employees at no cost.

Healthcare benefits

We provide high-quality medical, dental, and vision benefits to all employees and their dependents.

Flexibility

We’re a distributed team and place a premium on trust. Communicate. Get your work done. Live your life.

Unlimited vacation

Take a spontaneous trip or plan a dream staycation. Unlimited vacation means that you can stop budgeting your PTO.

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