Solutions Architect

At Instabase, we're passionate about building software to advance the state of the art in computing. We've built a fearlessly experimental, customer-obsessed team who are making discoveries to fundamentally change how people build and consume business applications.

Today, we're partnering with the world's leading companies to transform how they use data and technology. If these challenges excite you, we'd love to hear from you!

Our Professional Services Team is the foundation of our customer's experience and success with Instabase. This founding team will build and publish apps on the Instabase marketplace platform and develop custom end-to-end solutions to the most critical and strategic NP-hard problems for our customer's operations.

As a Solutions Architect, you will design world-class solutions using your subject matter expertise in cloud infrastructure, data science, and the Instabase platform to enable customers to solve challenges ranging from loan processing and approval (for programs like the PPP), all the way to insurance claims correspondence and legal discovery automation.

What you'll do:

• Design, and develop cloud infrastructure architectural designs to help the Instabase platform meet the client's business needs
• Collaborate with client's developers to make sure that preliminary requirements of a build are met before continuing to design and integrate the project
• Work with customers to design simple, efficient, scalable, and reusable solutions that deliver immediate customer value applying the Instabase platform.
• Guide customers through the Instabase proof-of-concept evaluation process - discover, scope, develop, and review.
• Gather client's technical and business requirements to create well defined Statement of Work documents clearly defines the success criteria
• Build deep relationships with customer stakeholders from engineers to CTOs.
• Recommend architectures and services for customers to move from a proof of concept to a production solution launch spanning cloud infrastructure, application development, integration, and security.
• Develop technical content i.e. demos, white papers, webinars, training, architecture guides, etc. based on customer consulting intuition to reduce customer time-to-value.
• Drive innovation of the Instabase platform by working with the Engineering team to drive the development of key product features

About you:

• 5+ years of experience in a technical customer-facing role i.e. solutions architect, principal consultant, TAM, professional services, etc.
• Subject matter expertise (SME) in cloud infrastructure and/or data science solutions.
• Experience working with large enterprise customers i.e. insurance, financial services, healthcare, logistics, etc.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills to audiences of all levels of technical, business, and organization responsibility.
• Proficient writing technical guides, demos, and sample applications in at least one programming language i.e. Python, Java.
• Ability to travel up to 40% of the time to customer sites and events.

How you work

• Analytical thinker - you have the ability to grasp the underlying concepts in complex information, identify root causes of problems, and formulate solutions based on a synthesis of information both quantitatively and qualitatively.
• Intellectually curious - you're driven by the desire to understand, empathize with the customer, and solve the root case issue.
• Coachable - you're constantly seeking improvement in yourself; you think big, and use your team and customer collective IQ to improve customer outcomes.
• Respectful and humble - to everyone, always.

Research shows that in order to apply for a job, women feel they need to meet 100% of the criteria while men usually apply after meeting about 60%. Regardless of how you identify, if you believe you can do the job and are a good match, we encourage you to apply.

Instabase is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in all forms. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, or any other unlawful factor. Instabase complies with local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.