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The Customer Solution Architect Director (CSAD) is a technical leadership role within Teradata’s global Field Technology Organization. This position encompasses the strategic depth and technical acumen of a Solution Architect Manager with the business-value focus of a Customer Success Manager, emphasizing technical sales leadership, customer health, and adoption success. The CSAD will lead a high-performing team of Customer Solution Architects (CSA), driving sales and business growth through technical strategy, solution innovation, and value delivery. As a full-time people manager, the CSAD will provide mentorship, career development, and strategic resource alignment across accounts, while serving as a trusted advisor to internal stakeholders and customers alike.
Job Responsibility:
Lead, coach, and mentor a team of CSAs across a defined region or set of strategic accounts
Conduct 1:1s and annual development planning focused on outcomes, career progression, and contribution to Teradata’s strategic goals
Drive engagement and performance management aligned to sales outcomes, customer satisfaction, and team effectiveness
Partner with Sales, Field Technology leadership and HR leadership in recruitment, onboarding, and development of CSA talent
Optimize CSA resource allocation to align with priority accounts, technical complexity, and opportunity potential
Guide CSAs in building a "Technical Vision for Success" across accounts, aligning platform capabilities with customer strategies and long-term architecture
Champion adoption of underutilized features, available capacity, and differentiators—particularly in cloud, AI/ML, and modern analytics architectures
Identify and cultivate innovative customer use cases and new solution concepts, helping CSAs to integrate them into customer's future-state vision
Ensure teams leverage internal consumption tools, whitespace analysis, and domain insights to maximize customer value and ARR expansion opportunities
Enable CSA teams to support sales cycle execution via technical visions, solution design, architecture reviews, and delivery planning
Supervise the creation and execution of scalable customer facing experiences (e.g., demos, POCs, benchmarks) to support consumption and technical win strategies
Partner with Cloud Ops, Consulting, and Engineering teams to secure technical approvals, validate entitlements, and accelerate implementation
Provide technical oversight for quoting, proposal documentation, and provisioning activities
Oversee and safeguard the ongoing Teradata business through account health management, risk mitigation, and customer satisfaction
Direct and oversee team usage of Early Warning System (EWS) signals to reduce churn and improve account stability
Drive understanding and documentation of business value delivered by Teradata solutions across stakeholders and lines of business
Act as an executive-level liaison with customers to understand business and technical needs, remove adoption blockers, and prioritize roadmap inputs
Serve as the "Voice of the Customer" within Teradata, capturing insights to influence product strategy and prioritize enablement needs
Promote Teradata’s technical leadership across customer engagements, partner ecosystems, and internal go-to-market programs
Requirements:
10+ years of experience in data and analytics, with a strong foundation in pre-sales, solution architecture, or customer success leadership
5+ years in a people leadership role managing technical teams within an enterprise software environment
Deep understanding of data warehouse architectures, big data technologies, cloud ecosystems, and modern AI & analytics platforms
Experience in customer-facing engagements with SVP and C-level executives
excellent executive presence and communication skills
Proven track record in building trusted customer relationships, driving adoption, and delivering measurable business outcomes
BA/BS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
advanced degree preferred
Familiarity with Teradata solutions strongly preferred
knowledge of competitive platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, Databricks, etc., required
What we offer:
comprehensive benefits programs, which include healthcare, life and disability insurance plans, a 401(k)-retirement savings plan, and time-off programs