Description
At Braze, we're a customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging™. We're seeking a Senior Lead Field Architect to join our Field Architecture team, which is a pre-sales team focused on high-stakes opportunities.
The Senior Lead Field Architect works as an overlay to our Braze account teams, joining deals as an added technical leader, present in the room and speaking with authority on all things enterprise architecture and integration.
Responsibilities:
- Lead high-level "Future State" architecture workshops, mapping how Braze interacts with the broader enterprise stack
- Navigate complex technical committees and address concerns from Architecture, Engineering, Information Security, Data Governance, and Systems Integration teams
- Identify potential technical blockers early in the sales cycle and design creative, scalable workarounds
- Design and lead proof-of-value engagements that give prospects the evidence they need to make a confident technical selection
- Set realistic expectations, anticipating delivery constraints and surfacing risks before close
- Develop best-practice blueprints for common enterprise scenarios
- Speak about building with Braze and strong integration architecture approaches at conferences and industry events
Requirements:
- 7+ years in customer-facing technical roles at B2B SaaS or data platform companies
- Marketing Technology Background: Experience with email, mobile, database, and lifecycle or loyalty marketing
- Advanced System Design: Expertise in designing composable solutions and understanding the trade-offs between various integration methods
- Data Strategy & Usage Patterns: Deep knowledge of how data is ingested, accessed, cleansed, and moved across an enterprise
- Change Management Consulting: The ability to advise prospects on the organizational changes required to support a modern engagement platform
- Market & Ecosystem Acumen: Deep familiarity with the architecture and design patterns of the primary platforms in the market
For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $166,000 and $248,000/year, with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $207,000 and $310,000/year.