Principal Solutions Architect - Data Engineering

Join phData , a remote-first data and AI consultancy company with employees across the United States, Latin America, and India. We partner with industry leaders, including Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises. We're growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results. Why phData? • Snowflake Implementation Partner of the Year — 7 consecutive years , and 2026 Snowflake AI Partner of the Year • AWS Premier Tier Services Partner — the highest tier of recognition in the AWS Partner Network • 2025 Fivetran Partner of the Year (4th consecutive year) • 2025 dbt Labs Partner of the Year (3x winner) with Visionary partner status • 2026 KNIME Customer Excellence Partner of the Year • Preferred Partner in the Anthropic Claude Partner Network • #1 Partner in Snowflake Advanced Certifications • 600+ Expert Cloud Certifications (Sigma, AWS, Azure, Dataiku, and more) • Recognized as an award-winning workplace in the US , India and LATAM Principal Solutions Architect Data Engineering Role Overview We are looking for a Principal Solutions Architect to join our Data Engineering team. In this role, you will serve as a senior technical leader across strategic client accounts, partnering directly with clients to understand business objectives, shape Data & AI strategy, architect scalable solutions, and identify opportunities to expand the partnership. You'll combine deep technical expertise with strong consulting and commercial skills to solve complex technical challenges, influence executive stakeholders, and translate client priorities into new opportunities for phData. You won't simply design and deliver solutions—you'll help lead the account, build trusted executive relationships, create demand, and drive measurable client and revenue outcomes while embracing AI-first engineering practices. Key Responsibilities • Lead strategic discovery across client accounts to uncover business priorities, technical challenges, and emerging opportunities, translating them into scalable Data & AI architectures, roadmaps, and opportunities for expanded client engagement. • Serve as a senior technical advisor and trusted partner to client executives and technical leaders, helping shape account strategy, strengthen relationships, and identify opportunities where phData can deliver additional value. • Provide clear recommendations on architecture, tooling, implementation approaches, and technical trade-offs, while shaping solution strategy, scoping new opportunities, contributing to proposals and SOWs, and partnering with account and sales leaders to convert client needs into revenue-generating engagements. • Lead and oversee the successful delivery of enterprise Data & AI solutions across strategic accounts, ensuring architectural quality and client outcomes while guiding engineering teams, proactively identifying technical and account risks, and creating a clear path from successful delivery to continued account growth. • Leverage AI throughout the software delivery lifecycle to improve solution design, engineering productivity, documentation, testing, troubleshooting, and client outcomes while helping clients identify and prioritize practical AI opportunities that can become broader transformation initiatives. • Mentor architects and engineers through architectural guidance, technical coaching, design reviews, and contribute to hiring, onboarding, technical enablement, and raising the technical and consulting capabilities of the broader organization. About You You are a senior client-facing technical leader who thinks beyond individual projects and takes ownership of the broader success and