Forward Deployed Architect

Hightouch
New York
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 175,000 - 225,000 annuallyFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringSkills: ["Stakeholder management","Problem-solving","Judgment","Leadership","Quality focus"]

Architect and deploy data/identity solutions for complex enterprise customers, partnering with marketing and data teams to turn targeting goals into working Hightouch configurations. Lead discovery, define success metrics, design target-state schemas and identity matching rules, and direct agent-driven builds—reviewing models for correctness and performance. Build reusable reference architectures and encode semantic context so marketers can ask questions in plain language and act on trusted results.

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Hightouch
Hightouch
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Forward Deployed Architect

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Job Summary

Architect and deploy data/identity solutions for complex enterprise customers, partnering with marketing and data teams to turn targeting goals into working Hightouch configurations. Lead discovery, define success metrics, design target-state schemas and identity matching rules, and direct agent-driven builds—reviewing models for correctness and performance. Build reusable reference architectures and encode semantic context so marketers can ask questions in plain language and act on trusted results.
Location: New York
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Run discovery with marketing and data teams to translate goals into specific activation use cases.
  • •Profile and understand customer data, directing agents to identify meanings and data gaps so the solution lands as a working Hightouch configuration.
  • •Design identity matching rules and target-state schemas at the right grain (person, household, device) to make data activation-ready.
  • •Direct agent-driven builds (profiling warehouses, proposing models, generating transformations) and own model quality and performance.
  • •Define and defend the success metric, agree it with the customer before the build, and stay involved as the architect when the data model or sources change.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 175,000 - 225,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years in a customer-facing technical role such as analytics engineering, solutions architecture, forward-deployed engineering, data consulting, or in-house marketing data work at a large brand.
  • •SQL fluency: can read and debug complex SQL, with real attention to performance and warehouse cost.
  • •Experience working in messy, stakeholder-heavy engagements, driving discovery, clarity, and alignment.
  • •Depth in marketing outcomes and customer engagement, with real depth in data architecture and data gaps.
  • •Bonus: experience with dbt/SQLMesh (or similar transformation tools) and Git-native, PR-driven workflows; plus prior work with identity resolution, CDPs, or MDM.
Experience:EnterpriseData consultingMarketing dataCDPs
Skills:Stakeholder managementProblem-solvingJudgmentLeadershipQuality focus
Languages:English
Tech Stack:SQLSnowflakeDatabricksBigQueryDbtSQLMeshGitPR

Company Brief

Hightouch
Provides a reverse ETL platform that syncs customer and product data from data warehouses to operational tools, enabling analytics-driven activation across sales, marketing, and support systems.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2019
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