Resident Architect - dbt Labs

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About Us

dbt Labs is the pioneer of analytics engineering, helping data teams transform raw data into reliable, actionable insights. Since 2016, we’ve grown from an open source project into the leading analytics engineering platform, now used by over 50,000 teams every week.

As of February 2025, we’ve surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and serve more than 5,400 dbt Cloud customers, including JetBlue, HubSpot, Vodafone New Zealand, and Dunelm. We’re backed by top-tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter. At our core, we believe in empowering data practitioners:

• Code-based data transformations unlock transparency, flexibility, and collaboration
• Analysts should adopt software engineering best practices to build trusted data products
• Core analytics infrastructure should be open source and user-controlled
• Analytic code—not just tools—should be shared and community-driven

dbt is now synonymous with analytics engineering, defining the modern data stack and serving as the data control plane for enterprise teams around the world. And we’re just getting started. We’re growing fast and building a team of passionate, curious people across the globe. Learn more about what makes us special by checking out our values.

Location: United States (West Coast)

About the Role

We’re seeking an experienced Resident Architect (RA) with a passion for solving complex problems using dbt to join our Professional Services team. RAs are billable to dbt Cloud Enterprise customers and play a critical role in advancing our mission to empower data developers to create and share organizational knowledge.

What You'll Do

• Drive customer outcomes: Lead a variety of impactful technical projects for customers—including implementation, configuration troubleshooting, embedding best practices, and designing both MVPs and long-term solutions tailored to customer needs.
• Provide architectural and design consulting to ensure scalable and maintainable implementations.
• Champion product adoption for our most strategic dbt Cloud customers by aligning solutions to their goals.
• Collaborate closely with internal customer-facing teams—Sales, Solutions Architects, Training, and Support—to ensure seamless customer experiences.
• Deliver actionable feedback to dbt Labs' Product and Engineering teams to help prioritize customer needs and ensure quick resolution of engagement-specific issues.
• Develop deep expertise in dbt and its role within the modern data stack (if not already an expert).

What You'll Need

• Experience: 4+ years experience working with technical data tooling in a customer-facing post-sales, technical architect or consulting role.
• Data Platform Expertise: Deep expertise in at least one data platform (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift).
• dbt Proficiency: Experience using, deploying, or configuring dbt Cloud - working with dbt for a minimum of 1 year.
• Technical Skills: Proficient in writing SQL and Python in analytics contexts.
• Growth Mindset: Look forward to building skills in technical areas that support deployment and integration of dbt Cloud solutions to complete customer projects.
• Customer Focus: Customer focused - embracing one of our core values that users are our best advocates.
• Organization: Highly organized. Comfort with technical project delivery - managing scope, timelines, and deliverables - this role will be staffed on multiple engagements at once.
• Communication: Communicate clearly and concisely with internal and external stakeholders - demonstrating a capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Remote Work: Thrive in a remote organization that highly values transparency and cross-collaboration.
• Travel: Will travel 2-4x/year to company-wide events.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• You have obtained the dbt Analytics Engineering Certification.
• You have the ability to advise on dbt Cloud recommendations, and build [content cut off].