Staff Solutions Architect - UK at Temporal Technologies

Temporal is seeking a Staff Solutions Architect to be the primary customer-facing technical leader in the UK. This role involves helping prospects understand the suitability of Temporal, explaining the technical benefits and drawbacks of the platform and cloud service, and positioning Temporal against alternative technologies. Temporal is an open source programming model that can simplify code, make applications more reliable, and help developers focus on the important things like delivering features faster.

The Staff Solutions Architect will partner with Account Executives to develop account plans and own the relationship with customer technical decision-makers. The role requires residence and authorization to work in the United Kingdom, with a preference for the Greater London Area.

What This Role Involves

• Helping prospects understand if their application is suitable for Temporal
• Helping customers & prospects understand the technical benefits and drawbacks of the Temporal platform and cloud service
• Position Temporal successfully against alternative technologies or technical patterns
• Creating the conditions in customer engineering organizations that allow them to expand the number of production applications using Temporal
• Partnering with Account Executives to develop and execute an overall account plan
• Owning the relationship with customer technical decision-makers in evaluating and operating temporal applications

What is Required

• Must reside in and be authorized to work in the United Kingdom without sponsorship with a strong preference for the Greater London Area.
• Excellent technical communication skills (presenting, whiteboarding, writing)
• Comfortable discussing distributed system technologies, design decisions, and best practices
• Able to construct application prototypes and follow through with design, development, build, and deployment guidance using one of Temporal’s supported languages (Java, Golang, Typescript, Python, PHP)
• Conversant in topics related to operating applications in production, such as security, reliability, performance, cost management, and operations
• Can offer helpful advice and good arguments to customers on architectural topics like application patterns and platform architectures
• Comfortable working with at least one of the major cloud providers and using the various services commonly employed for application development & production
• Serve as a technical advisor to Sales Account Executives - can help identify good/poor fit use cases, assist with scoping and sizing of opportunities, and anticipate where customer technical choices will work for or against Temporal

What Temporal offers

• Equity plan participation and benefits