Senior Lead Field Architect

Braze

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Chicago, IL
Salary
$158,000–$236,000 / yr
Posted
91 days ago
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This role $197k
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This role pays more than 58% of similar roles. Most pay $158,337–$227,012 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $197k 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 acting as an overlay to account teams, where you will lead "Future State" architecture workshops and manage complex technical stakeholders across engineering, security, and data governance departments. You will build and design scalable solutions using a modern composable stack including Snowflake, Databricks, S3, Salesforce, and Adobe. Key responsibilities include performing gap analyses, leading proof-of-value engagements, and developing best-practice blueprints for multi-instance deployments. The role requires expertise in advanced system design, data pipeline technologies like dbt, and deep knowledge of marketing technology ecosystems including CDPs and various integration methods such as real-time streaming or batch ingestion to solve complex enterprise architecture challenges.

What you'll do

  • Lead high-level "Future State" architecture workshops to map how Braze interacts with a customer's broader enterprise technology stack.
  • 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 that maintain platform stability.
  • Design and lead proof-of-value engagements to provide prospects with evidence for making a confident technical selection.
  • Assess delivery constraints and surface risks before closing to ensure proposed solutions are viable in production environments.
  • Develop best-practice blueprints and reusable architectural patterns for common enterprise scenarios across the Solutions organization.
  • Represent the company as an advocate by speaking about Braze integration architecture at conferences and industry events.

What we're looking for

  • Must have 7+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, or Enterprise Architecture.
  • Proficiency in API and SDK technologies is required.
  • Experience with marketing technology including email, mobile, database, and lifecycle or loyalty marketing is required.
  • Expertise in advanced system design for composable solutions and various integration methods is required.
  • Deep knowledge of data strategy, usage patterns, and pipeline technologies like Snowflake, Databricks, and dbt is required.
  • Ability to provide change management consulting regarding organizational shifts for modern engagement platforms is required.
  • Familiarity with the architecture and design patterns of major marketing clouds and CDPs is required.
  • Pre-sales experience and hands-on familiarity with martech platforms and the modern data stack are preferred.

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