What are the responsibilities and job description for the Customer Solution Architect position at Teradata?
Our Company
At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform activates enterprise intelligence by unifying data, knowledge and business context to achieve tangible outcomes. With Teradata, organizations can provide agents with full context for impact when it matters. Our solution lets businesses connect and scale on premises, in the cloud, or through a hybrid approach. Teradata delivers real business value with AI.
What You'll Do
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 ARR through technical progression.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Advocacy and Relationship Leadership
We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are committed to actively working to foster an inclusive environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.
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Why We Think You’ll Love Teradata
We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement. It is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.
Teradata invites all identities and backgrounds in the workplace. We work with deliberation and intent to ensure we are cultivating collaboration and inclusivity across our global organization. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, ancestry, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
At Teradata, we believe that people thrive when empowered with better information. Teradata Autonomous Knowledge Platform activates enterprise intelligence by unifying data, knowledge and business context to achieve tangible outcomes. With Teradata, organizations can provide agents with full context for impact when it matters. Our solution lets businesses connect and scale on premises, in the cloud, or through a hybrid approach. Teradata delivers real business value with AI.
What You'll Do
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 ARR through technical progression.
Key Responsibilities
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.
- 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 (e. g. , VHOEs) tailored to customer needs.
- Collaborate with customers to identify net-new use cases and align the Teradata platform with long-term strategies.
- 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.
- Secure entitlements, validate platform readiness, and align cloud provisioning (e. g. , SITEIDs, VPC, network requirements).
- Support quoting, ordering, proposal development, and stakeholder communication across internal teams and the customer.
- Execute high-value, cost-effective sales motions such as demos, benchmarks, and PoCs to de-risk opportunity progression.
- Develop trusted technical leadership through thought leadership, proactive ownership, and field-proven credibility.
- Influence customer architecture strategy to include Teradata Vantage 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.
- Partner with Account Executives and the broader account team on strategy, planning, and opportunity development
- Engage directly with customer stakeholders ranging from DBAs and data architects to analytics leaders and CIO‑level executives
- Collaborate with Consulting Services on solution design and strategic engagements
- Work with Customer Services teams to ensure solution alignment and ongoing customer success
- Coordinate with Global Sales Support, Pricing, and Finance to shape offers and proposals
- Interface with internal Teradata product and technical SMEs to bring specialized expertise into customer engagements
- Support collaboration across sales, technical, and delivery teams to drive adoption of Teradata solutions
- Possess a keen interest and understanding of developments in data and analytic solutions including emerging AI/ML trends.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- A clear, confident and persuasive communicator who can craft, summarize and deliver messaging for various groups of users, influencers and stakeholders.
We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are committed to actively working to foster an inclusive environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.
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Why We Think You’ll Love Teradata
We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement. It is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.
Teradata invites all identities and backgrounds in the workplace. We work with deliberation and intent to ensure we are cultivating collaboration and inclusivity across our global organization. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, ancestry, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
Salary : $159,300 - $238,900