Director of Solutions Architecture-India/ASEAN
ClickHouse · Posted Oct 3
High-performance, column-oriented open-source database and real-time analytics platform
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About the role
ClickHouse is a globally distributed, cloud-first company behind the open-source columnar database, and its Solutions Architecture team partners with enterprise and commercial customers to design scalable, cloud-native data solutions. Following the general availability of the serverless ClickHouse Cloud product, the team is focused on expanding adoption across India and ASEAN. This Director role builds, leads, and scales the regional Solutions Architecture team while acting as a senior technical advisor to customers and partnering with Sales, Product, and Engineering leadership.
What you will do
- Lead, mentor, and scale the India & ASEAN 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 APJ 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.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Significant experience in Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering, or a similar customer-facing technical leadership role, with 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.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience deploying applications or selling into environments with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Familiarity with database technologies, data modeling, and analytical workloads.
- Prior experience supporting multiple countries or regions within APJ.
Benefits and support
- Flexible work environment - ClickHouse is a globally distributed company and remote-friendly. We currently operate in over 25 countries.
- Healthcare - Employer contributions towards your healthcare.
- Equity in the company - Every new team member who joins our company receives stock options.
- Time off - Flexible time off in the US, generous entitlement in other countries.
- A USD$500 Home office setup if you're a remote employee.
- Global Gatherings – We believe in the power of in-person connection and offer opportunities to engage with colleagues at company-wide offsites.
About ClickHouse
ClickHouse is a high-performance, column-oriented open-source database management system for online analytical processing (OLAP). It enables businesses and developers to generate real-time analytical reports and process massive volumes of structured data with extreme speed. The company provides both self-managed deployments and fully managed cloud infrastructure tailored for modern data-intensive and AI-driven applications.
- Industry
- Database
- Company size
- 500-1000 employees
- Founded
- 2021
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Series D
Funding
Series D · $1.05B raised
- 2021-09-01Series A$50M
- 2021-10-28Series B$250M
- 2025-05-29Series C$350M
- 2026-01-16Series D$400M
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CTO
Co-Founder & President
Jimmy Sexton
Chief Financial Officer
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