Remote Solutions Architect at Fivetran - Japan — Columbus
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Japan-Based Remote Role — Limited Nomad Flexibility
This role is explicitly designated as remote within Japan, meaning Fivetran requires you to be legally based in Japan. This is not a location-independent or globally open remote position. Candidates holding a valid Japanese work visa (e.g., Engineer/Specialist in Humanities/International Services, or Highly Skilled Professional visa) are the target audience.
From a day-to-day flexibility standpoint, the role involves managing enterprise accounts in Japan, meaning your working hours will be anchored to JST (UTC+9). Expect regular customer-facing cadence calls, business reviews, and workshops — all requiring synchronous availability during Japanese business hours. This is not an async-friendly role for travelers hopping time zones.
Travel-relevant considerations:
- A monthly cell phone stipend is provided — useful for staying connected on the go.
- No explicit coworking allowance or travel/equipment budget is listed, though Fivetran's benefits page may list regional perks.
- Japan's cost of living (especially Tokyo) is moderate-to-high; without a listed salary, it's hard to benchmark against nomad hubs like Bangkok or Medellín — but enterprise tech roles in Japan typically pay ¥10–16M+ annually.
If you're seeking a truly location-flexible role, this posting is not ideal. However, if you're already residing in Japan and want remote work with enterprise tech exposure, this is a strong opportunity.
From Fivetran's founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We're proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About the Role
We're looking for a Customer Solutions Architect (CSA) to join our Enterprise team, focused on driving adoption, value realisation and expansion across our existing customer base. The CSA is the primary post-sales technical owner for Enterprise customers. Working alongside Account Executives (AEs) and Sales Engineers (SEs), the CSA ensures that customers not only successfully deploy Fivetran, but continue to scale and expand its usage over time.
This role operates as a technical account manager and strategic advisor, acting as the bridge between initial onboarding success and long-term growth. The CSA owns the technical narrative post-go-live, guiding customers through architecture evolution, adoption, and expansion initiatives. Unlike implementation-focused roles, the CSA is a non-billable, expansion-focused position, measured on driving incremental ARR, adoption, and Net Revenue Retention (NRR). You will act as a trusted advisor, advocate and accelerator for your customers — ensuring they derive maximum value from their data investments while aligning their technical roadmap with Fivetran's platform capabilities.
This is a full-time, remote position based in Japan.
Technologies You'll Work With
- Databases: SAP HANA, Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres
- Data Platforms: Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift
- Languages: SQL, Python, bash or PowerShell
- Networking: SSH tunneling, VPNs, PrivateLink
- Modern Data Stack tools and ecosystem technologies
What You'll Do
Customer Adoption & Value Realisation
- Own post-sales technical engagement across assigned Enterprise accounts
- Drive adoption, optimisation and ongoing usage of Fivetran
- Deliver enablement sessions, workshops and best-practice guidance
- Monitor account health signals (usage, performance, support trends) and proactively intervene where needed
- Ensure customers move from initial deployment to sustained, scalable success
Expansion & Growth Enablement
- Identify, validate and execute expansion opportunities across business units, regions and use-cases
- Translate customer initiatives into scalable data workloads and technical solutions
- Partner with AEs to drive incremental ARR through structured expansion plays
- Lead technical validation of new workloads, including workshops and (where necessary) POCs
- Replicate successful use-cases across the organisation to accelerate growth
Technical Strategy & Architecture
- Act as the chief technical stakeholder for assigned accounts post-go-live
- Define and maintain Enterprise Reference Architectures aligned to customer environments
- Ensure architectural consistency and scalability across all implementations
- Guide customers on best practices for data pipelines, automation, and platform adoption
- Maintain technical artefacts such as architecture documentation, design patterns, and knowledge bases
Stakeholder Engagement & Alignment
- Build and maintain relationships with technical, operational and executive stakeholders
- Develop and maintain stakeholder maps and multi-threaded engagement strategies
- Run regular technical cadence calls, business reviews and roadmap sessions
- Align customer technical strategy with business objectives and commercial plans
Internal & Partner Collaboration
- Act as the technical orchestrator across Sales, Professional Services, Product and Engineering
- Advocate for customer needs internally, influencing product roadmap and priorities
- Collaborate with technology partners (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, GCP) to drive joint value
- Ensure alignment between delivery teams and long-term expansion strategy
Strategic Account Planning
- Contribute to Mutual Account Plans (MAPs) and own Mutual Success Plans (MSPs)
- Map whitespace opportunities across business units, subsidiaries and use-cases
- Maintain a structured view of expansion opportunities and workload pipelines
- Align technical execution with long-term account growth strategy
Skills We're Looking For
- Proven experience in a Solution Architect, Technical Account Manager, or similar customer-facing technical role
- Strong ability to own and drive customer outcomes post-sale, including adoption and expansion
- Experience designing scalable data architectures and working within modern data ecosystems
- Ability to translate business objectives into technical solutions and measurable outcomes
- Strong stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences
- Proactive, self-sufficient and highly organised approach to managing multiple accounts
- Comfortable operating strategically while also engaging in deep technical discussions
Bonus Skills
- Experience working with cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, etc.)
- Background in data integration, ETL/ELT or replication technologies
- Experience with workload-based or consumption-based sales models
- Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and design patterns
- Experience working with system integrators or technology partners
Perks and Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
- Generous paid time-off policy (PTO), plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave policy, holidays, and volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants*
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
*May vary by country and worker type — please reach out to your recruiter for more information.
Click here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.
We're honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we're proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
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