Manager, Solution Architecture - NEMEA

Overview

Lead, mentor and scale the NEMEA Solutions Architecture team, remaining close to customers, partners and the field, following the general availability of ClickHouse Cloud.

What you'll do

• Lead, mentor, and scale the NEMEA Solutions Architecture team, setting technical standards, best practices, and a strong customer-first culture.
• Partner closely with Sales, Product, and Engineering leadership to drive successful outcomes across enterprise and commercial customers.
• Serve as a senior technical advisor to customers, engaging at all levels from C-suite stakeholders to architects, data engineers, and developers.
• Translate complex business and technical requirements into scalable, cloud-native solution designs, including architecture, migrations, workflows, and data visualisation.
• Guide and support high-impact proofs of concept (POCs) and reference architectures that accelerate adoption and expansion.
• Evangelise ClickHouse's vision, architecture, and value proposition across the NEMEA market, including participation in executive briefings, events, and community initiatives.
• Drive regional initiatives that help customers transform raw data into actionable insights aligned with clear business outcomes.
• Provide feedback from the field to inform product strategy, roadmap priorities, and go-to-market execution.

What you'll need

• Significant experience in Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, or a similar customer-facing technical leadership role.
• Prior people management experience.
• Strong background working with open-source software business models and cloud-first technologies.
• Hands-on experience designing and supporting scalable, highly available distributed systems.
• Proven ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical engagement when needed.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to bridge business goals and technical solutions.
• Experience operating in fast-growing, high-change environments and building teams from early stages.

Nice to have

• Experience deploying applications or selling into environments with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Familiarity with database technologies, data modelling, and analytical workloads.
• Familiarity with observability technologies.

Details

• Remote-friendly role; ClickHouse operates in over 25 countries.