Responsibilities
- Hold design authority over NX1 deployment patterns at the customer — attend and actively contribute to architecture review boards, security reviews, and data governance forums
- Design and defend the integration architecture across the customer's data stack: identity federation, CDC patterns, governance metadata, data lineage, network segmentation, encryption
- Identify the next workloads NX1 is positioned to support before the customer has fully articulated them — and qualify those opportunities with stakeholder context and technical depth before handing them to the AE
- Produce high-quality design documents that hold up to hostile review boards without you in the room
- Serve as the technical escalation point when NX1 deployment issues arise at the customer
- Own the NX1 internal cadence on the account — keep engineering, FDEs, product, and the AE aligned on what's happening at the customer
- Maintain executive-level relationships with customer business and IT leadership at the appropriate cadence
- Translate architectural farming insights into AE-usable expansion theses: technical case, stakeholder map, rough scope, customer political context — qualified opportunities, not loose architectural musings
- Own escalation leadership when something breaks — you're the person in the room
- Navigate vendor governance at a major bank: third-party risk reviews, audit responses, change management, vendor due diligence
Requirements
- 12–18 years in enterprise data/cloud architecture as an SA, principal engineer, or equivalent
- At least one prior multi-year embedded engagement at a Tier 1 bank or equivalent regulated enterprise — you know what it means to be a vendor inside another organization's culture for 12+ months
- Hands-on or recent hands-on depth in the modern OSS data stack: Spark, Trino, Airflow, Iceberg, Kubernetes, S3-compatible object storage, Kafka — at petabyte scale, with hundreds of pipelines
- Experience producing and defending design documents in front of hostile architecture review boards
- Track record of identifying expansion or net-new use cases through architectural insight at a large customer — named examples of "I saw the customer's next workload before they did, qualified it, and partnered with sales to expand"
- Willingness to be on-site in Charlotte, NC (primary) and NYC (secondary) at 80%+ cadence
- Deep familiarity with bank IT culture and governance: risk and control frameworks, TPRM, change management, audit cycles, regulatory reporting patterns
Nice to Have
- Prior embedded experience in a highly regulated industry, as a vendor SA
- Hands-on with relevant workloads: regulatory reporting pipelines, CCAR/DFAST data, AML/KYC, customer 360, treasury and liquidity
- Open-source contributions in NX1 stack components (Iceberg, Spark, Trino, Airflow)
- Conference presence at Subsurface, Trino Summit, or Airflow Summit in FS-adjacent tracks
Benefits
- A collaborative team culture built on curiosity and respect
- Challenging work where your contributions clearly matter
- A leadership team that invests in learning and development
- The opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud, data, and AI innovation
Work Arrangement
On-site — Charlotte, NC, New York, NY
Additional Information
- Willingness to be on-site in Charlotte, NC (primary) and NYC (secondary) at 80%+ cadence
