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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal Solutions Architect - **Company:** Bloomreach Inc. - **Location:** UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Architectural Patterns, Microsoft Azure, BigQuery, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Automation of Marketing, Data Streaming, Google Cloud, Enterprise Software Applications, Snowflake, Event Driven Architecture, Containerization, Low Latency, Real Time Data, Data Management, User Identification, Databricks, Microservices - **Published:** September 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bloomreach/jobs/8208362 ## About the Role * Significant experience in a senior customer-facing technical role within enterprise software, SaaS, commerce, MarTech, data or digital experience. * Strong understanding of modern data architecture and cloud platforms, including technologies such as Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, lakehouses and CDPs. * Strong understanding of APIs, event-driven architectures, data flows, identity resolution, customer profiles and real-time activation. * Understanding of enterprise MarTech and commerce ecosystems, including CRM, ESPs, personalization, marketing automation and commerce platforms. * Experience with enterprise cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure. * Understanding of modern commerce architectures, APIs, microservices, composable commerce and cloud-native technologies. * Experience supporting complex enterprise sales cycles, RFPs, technical evaluations and multi-stakeholder buying processes. * Experience working with senior technical stakeholders including CIOs, CTOs, Enterprise Architects and technology leadership teams. * Strong ability to simplify complex technical concepts and connect them to business outcomes. * Strong executive communication, presentation and workshop facilitation skills. * Commercially minded, with the ability to understand the relationship between architecture, investment, risk and business value. * Comfortable challenging customers and internal Product/Engineering teams constructively. * Strong curiosity and ability to learn and communicate emerging technologies, particularly across AI, data and customer experience. * Executive presence and credibility without needing to have previously held a CTO or equivalent executive technology position. ## Description The Principal Solutions Architect is a Senior, Global, customer-facing technology role responsible for helping Bloomreach win and grow strategic enterprise customers by connecting their business objectives with modern data, AI, MarTech and commerce architectures. You will act as a trusted technical advisor to senior technology and digital leaders, helping customers understand how Bloomreach can fit into - and enhance - their existing technology ecosystem. Working closely with our Global Account Executives, Solution Consultants, Product, Engineering and Customer Success Teams, you will shape technical strategy throughout complex enterprise sales cycles, lead executive and technical conversations, and help potential customers translate architectural decisions into measurable business outcomes. This role sits between deep technical architecture and commercial strategy. You do not need to have been a CTO, but you should be comfortable engaging with CIOs, CTOs, Enterprise Architects and other senior technology stakeholders., * Act as a senior technical advisor for global strategic enterprise opportunities and customer engagements. * Build trusted relationships with CIOs, CTOs, Enterprise Architects, Chief Digital Officers and senior technology teams. * Understand and map complex customer technology environments, identifying where Bloomreach can create value. * Whiteboard and communicate complex architectures, data flows and integration strategies with technical and executive audiences. * Advise customers on how data moves from systems of record through to real-time decisioning, personalization and activation. * Help customers evaluate architectural trade-offs across data platforms, APIs, cloud infrastructure, identity, governance, latency and scalability. * Explain where traditional warehouse-centric approaches may not fully support real-time customer decisioning and activation., * Bring strong expertise across modern data architectures, including Databricks, Snowflake, lakehouses, CDPs, APIs and cloud platforms. * Understand identity resolution, event streams, customer profiles, data governance and real-time data requirements. * Understand enterprise MarTech ecosystems including ESPs, personalization, CRM, commerce and marketing automation. * Help customers understand how Bloomreach fits within their broader data, AI, commerce and MarTech ecosystem. * Stay current on emerging technologies and architectural patterns across AI, data, commerce and digital experience. Enterprise Sales & Commercial Strategy * Partner with our Global Account Executives and Solution Consultants throughout complex enterprise sales cycles to shape technical strategy and increase deal confidence. * Support RFPs, technical validation, executive presentations, architecture reviews and customer workshops. * Connect technical and architectural decisions to business outcomes, including revenue, cost, risk and time-to-value. * Help identify and remove technical barriers that could prevent enterprise opportunities from progressing. * Bring strong commercial instincts and an understanding of how technology decisions influence enterprise buying processes. * Challenge customer assumptions where appropriate while maintaining a consultative, outcome-focused approach. Internal & Market Influence * Partner with our Global Product and Engineering teams to bring customer insights, market trends and architectural requirements back into Bloomreach. * Constructively challenge internal teams when customer needs or market opportunities require a different approach. * Mentor Solution Consultants and other customer-facing teams on modern data architecture, AI, enterprise technology and industry trends. * Develop relationships with strategic technology partners including hyperscalers, commerce platforms, CDPs and systems integrators. * Contribute to customer technology briefings, industry events and thought leadership where relevant., * Begin actively supporting strategic enterprise opportunities, participating in customer meetings, architecture discussions, technical workshops and solution reviews. * Establish credibility with Sales and technical stakeholders as a trusted technology partner. * Start identifying common customer architecture challenges and opportunities where Bloomreach can differentiate., * Lead technical strategy and architecture discussions across multiple strategic enterprise opportunities. * Establish trusted relationships with senior customer technology stakeholders. * Demonstrate the ability to connect customer architecture and technology strategy to Bloomreach's commercial value proposition. * Become a recognised internal technology advisor for strategic enterprise sales, bringing customer insight and market knowledge into Sales, Product and Engineering. * Contribute to accelerating complex opportunities, improving technical confidence and strengthening Bloomreach's position within enterprise technology ecosystems., * We have a People Development Program - participating in personal development workshops on various topics run by experts from inside the company. We are continuously developing & updating competency maps for select functions. * Our resident communication coach Ivo Večeřa is available to help navigate work-related communications & decision-making challenges.* * Our managers are strongly encouraged to participate in the Leader Development Program to develop in the areas we consider essential for any leader. The program includes regular comprehensive feedback, consultations with a coach and follow-up check-ins. * Bloomreachers utilize the $1,500 professional education budget on an annual basis to purchase education products (books, courses, certifications, etc.)*, * The Employee Assistance Program -- with counselors -- is available for non-work-related challenges.* * Subscription to Calm - sleep and meditation app.* * We organize 'DisConnect' days where Bloomreachers globally enjoy one additional day off each quarter, allowing us to unwind together and focus on activities away from the screen with our loved ones. * We facilitate sports, yoga, and meditation opportunities for each other. * Extended parental leave up to 26 calendar weeks for Primary Caregivers.* ## Related Videos - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [Next Level Enterprise Architecture: Modular, Flexible, Scalable, Multichannel and AI-Ready?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1017-next-level-enterprise-architecture-modular-flexible-scalable-multichannel-and-ai-ready) - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [Cutting LLM Costs Without Cutting Quality: How to Beat Proprietary LLMs with Fine-Tuned Open Source](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100151-cutting-llm-costs-without-cutting-quality-how-to-beat-proprietary-llms-with-fine-tuned-open-source) - [Blueprints for Success: Steering a Global Data & AI Architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1577-blueprints-for-success-steering-a-global-data-ai-architecture) - [Making Data Warehouses fast. 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