Senior Lead Field Architect

Braze

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Austin, TXChicago, IL
Salary
$148,000–$223,000 / yr
Posted
91 days ago
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Similar $193k
This role $186k
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This role pays less than 51% of similar roles. Most pay $158,337–$227,012 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $186k versus about $193k for comparable roles.

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About Braze

Braze is a leading cloud-based customer engagement platform that enables brands to foster human connection with consumers through interactive, real-time, cross-channel marketing.

Braze currently has 100 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $149,000–$235,000 across 99 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Lead Field Architect

The Senior Lead Field Architect joins the pre-sales Field Architecture team to serve as a technical leader for high-stakes opportunities. This role involves partnering with account teams to lead "Future State" architecture workshops, manage complex technical committees, and conduct gap analyses to ensure production readiness. You will design scalable workarounds, lead proof-of-value engagements, and develop best-practice blueprints for common enterprise scenarios like multi-instance deployments. The role requires expertise in the modern composable stack, including data warehouses like Snowflake and Databricks, cloud infrastructure, and CDPs such as Segment or mParticle. You will also navigate integration challenges involving Salesforce and Adobe systems while providing consultation on data strategy and change management. Candidates must possess deep knowledge of marketing technology, API and SDK proficiency, and experience with real-time streaming and batch ingestion methods to solve complex enterprise architecture problems.

What you'll do

  • Lead high-level "Future State" architecture workshops to map how Braze integrates with various enterprise technology stacks.
  • Manage technical stakeholders by addressing concerns from engineering, security, data governance, and systems integration teams.
  • Identify potential technical blockers early in the sales cycle and design scalable workarounds.
  • Design and lead proof-of-value engagements to provide prospects with evidence for confident technical selection.
  • Assess delivery constraints and surface risks before closing deals to ensure successful production deployment.
  • Develop best-practice blueprints and reusable architectural patterns for common enterprise scenarios across the organization.
  • Represent Braze as a technical expert at conferences and industry events to advocate for integration architecture.

What we're looking for

  • You must have 7+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, or Enterprise Architecture.
  • Experience at B2B SaaS or data platform companies is required.
  • Proficiency in API and SDK technologies is required.
  • You must possess a marketing technology background including email, mobile, database, and lifecycle or loyalty marketing.
  • You must have expertise in advanced system design for composable solutions and various integration methods.
  • You must have deep knowledge of data strategy, usage patterns, and pipeline technologies like Snowflake, Databricks, or dbt.
  • You must be able to provide change management consulting regarding organizational shifts for modern engagement platforms.
  • Pre-sales experience is preferred.

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