Delivery Solutions Architect

CSQ427R31 At Lumen Dynamics, we are on a mission to empower our customers to solve the world's toughest data problems by utilizing the the Lumen Dynamics Data Intelligence Platform. As a Delivery Solutions Architect (DSA), you will play an important role during this journey. You will collaborate with our sales and field engineering teams to accelerate the adoption and growth of the Lumen Dynamics platform in your customers. You will also help ensure customer success by increasing focus and technical accountability to our most complex customers who need guidance to accelerate usage on Lumen Dynamics workloads that they have already selected, helping them maximise the value they get of our platform and the return on investment. This is a hybrid technical and commercial role. It is commercial in the sense that you will drive growth in your assigned customers and use cases through leading your customers' stakeholders, building executive relationships, orchestration of other focused/specialized teams within Lumen Dynamics, and creating and driving plans and strategies for Lumen Dynamics colleagues to build upon. This is in parallel to being technical, with expectations being that you become the post-sale technical lead across all Lumen Dynamics products. This requires you to use your skills and technical credibility to engage and communicate at all levels with an organisation. You will report directly to a DSA Manager within the Field Engineering organization. The impact you will have: Engage with Solutions Architects to understand the full use case demand plan for prioritised customers Lead the post-technical win technical account strategy and execution plan for the majority of Lumen Dynamics use cases within our most strategic accounts Be the accountable technical leader assigned to specific use cases and customer(s) across multiple selling teams and internal stakeholders, creating certainty from uncertainty and driving onboarding, enablement, success, go-live and healthy consumption of the workloads where the customer has made the decision to consume Lumen Dynamics Be the first contact for any technical issues or questions related to production/go live status of agreed upon use cases within an account, oftentimes services multiple use cases within the largest and most complex organizations Leverage both Shared Services, User Education, Onboarding/Technical Services and Support resources, along with escalating to expert level technical experts to build the right tasks that are beyond your scope of activities or expertise Create, own and execute a point-of-view as to how key use cases can be accelerated into production, coordinating with Professional Services (PS) resources on the delivery of PS Engagement proposals Navigate Lumen Dynamics Product and Engineering teams for new product Innovations, private previews and upgrade needs Develop an execution plan that covers all activities of all customer-facing technical roles and teams to cover the below work streams: Main use cases moving from ‘win’ to production Enablement / user growth plan Product adoption (strategy and activities to increase adoption of Lumen Dynamics’ Lakehouse vision) Organic needs for current investment (e.g. cloud cost control, tuning & optimization) Executive and operational governance Provide internal and external updates - KPI reporting on the status of usage and customer health, covering investment status, important risks, product adoption and use case progression - to your Technical GM What we look for: 5+ years of experience where you have been accountable for technical project / program delivery within the domain of Data and AI and where you can contribute to technical debate and design choices with customers Programming experience in Python or Spark Experience in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, customer success, or consulting role Understanding of solution architecture related distributed data systems Understanding of how to attribute business value and outcomes to specific project deliverables Technical program, or project management including account, stakeholder and resource management accountability Experience resolving complex and important escalation with senior customer executives Experience conducting open-ended discovery workshops, creating strategic roadmaps, conducting business analysis and managing delivery of complex programmes/projects Track record of overachievement against quota, Goals or similar objective targets Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience Can travel up to 30% when needed About Lumen Dynamics Lumen Dynamics is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Lumen Dynamics Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Lumen Dynamics is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Lumen Dynamics on Twitter , LinkedIn and Facebook . Benefits At Lumen Dynamics, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region click here . Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion At Lumen Dynamics, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. 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