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The Customer Solution Architect (CSA) is a strategic, customer-facing technical leader responsible for retaining and expanding Teradata ecosystems through technical engagement, advocacy, and opportunity progression. The CSA blends deep technical acumen in data architecture, analytics, AI, and cloud platforms with strong customer relationship skills to influence adoption, showcase value, and drive innovation. As a trusted advisor, the CSA proactively engages customers to understand their business and technical landscapes, mitigate risks, and uncover growth opportunities. The role supports both pre- and post-sales motions, with a strong emphasis on maximizing platform utilization, identifying technical differentiators, and advancing Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) through technical progression.
Job Responsibility
Customer Advocacy and Relationship Leadership
Establish and maintain trusted relationships across customer organizations from technical leads to executive sponsors
Act as a prescriptive advisor, enabling early-warning systems and remediation plans to maintain or improve account health
Relay customer feedback, technical blockers, and solution gaps internally to influence product direction and ensure timely responses
Demonstrate value realization of Teradata solutions through ongoing customer engagement and success planning
Adoption and Innovation
Champion adoption by highlighting Teradata's technical differentiators and underutilized capabilities
Educate customers on emerging trends, industry benchmarks, and new Teradata capabilities through technical briefings, innovation days, and workshops
Develop and deliver reusable technical collateral, POVs, and hands-on engagements tailored to customer needs
Collaborate with customers to identify net-new use cases and align the Teradata platform with long-term strategies
Technical Opportunity Progression
Lead technical discovery, solution design, and scoping to advance identified growth opportunities that lead to an increase in ARR
Create and maintain a 'Technical Vision for Success' specific to each account, mapping current-state and future-state architectures
Execute high-value, cost-effective sales motions such as demos, benchmarks, and POCs to de-risk opportunity progression
Technical Influence and Execution
Develop trusted technical leadership through thought leadership, proactive ownership, and field-proven credibility
Influence customer architecture strategy to include Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform through modern data and analytics blueprints
Align technical execution with account team strategy and customer success goals, ensuring long-term platform expansion
Remain continuously educated on Teradata's full portfolio and adjacent technologies to guide complex customer conversations
Requirements
Strong understanding of emerging data, analytics, and AI/ML trends, including generative AI, agentic AI, MLOps, responsible AI, retrieval-augmented generation RAG, vector search, and enterprise AI adoption
Experience in promoting analytic solutions for large enterprises in either a pre-sales or delivery role
Must have experience with Cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
Must have knowledge of the competitive landscape and an understanding of Teradata's differentiators
Experience supporting federal and/or state government customers, with preferred domain expertise in Medicare/Medicaid claims, DoD logistics, predictive maintenance, or related mission-critical environments
Active TS/SCI clearance, military clearance, or active Top Secret clearance with recent SCI eligibility or demonstrated ability to obtain SCI access
Demonstrate ability to understand customer's needs and provide thought leadership to influence and build trust at multiple levels
Possess the ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities across multiple customers
Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Demonstrate excellent organizational and people skills
Have a degree level qualification or relevant experience in computer science, software engineering, mathematics, management information systems or a related discipline
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Knowledge of federal and state government procurement and contracting processes, including familiarity with contract vehicles such as NASA SEWP, GSA Schedules, and related acquisition channels
A clear, confident and persuasive communicator who can craft, summarize and deliver messaging for various groups of users, influencers and stakeholders within federal and state agencies