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Solutions Architect, CSP
Job Location:
Job Location:
Chicago, IL - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 105000 - 145000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
11 November 2026 (4 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
8 February 2027
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
About Ocient:
Ocient is building OcientAIQ a complete ecosystem for delivering trusted agentic AI solutions at petabyte scale for the organizations that cant afford to get AI wrong. Our customers protect networks secure nations and power the global economy. The problems we solve are genuinely hard and the work matters.
Founded in 2016 by the team that built Cleversafe (acquired by IBM in 2015) Ocient is headquartered in Chicago with a remote-first global team. We are a carbon-neutral company backed by leading investors including Greycroft OCA Ventures In-Q-Tel and Buoyant Ventures.
Do not contact Ocient directly to apply for a role. For security purposes any applications received via email will be deleted.
Job Title: Solution Architect Communications Service Providers
Location: Remote (US Only)
*We cannot sponsor or transfer any visas of any kind now or in the future (ex. OPT EAD H1B H4 etc.)*
Up to 25-35% travel to customer sites partner workshops and Ocient offices as needed
Hiring Manager: VP of CSP Solutions
Estimated salary range:
Base: $105000 to $145000
Expected OTE: $140000 to $193000
The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidates experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations
Position Overview
The Solution Architect supports the technical win for assigned CSP opportunities working alongside Senior Solution Architects Account Executives Field CTOs Delivery Product and strategic partners from discovery through proof of value and production planning. You work closely with Account Executives and senior team members to help build pipeline qualify opportunities and demonstrate technical value.
You will help position OcientAIQ solutions across CSP use cases including cybersecurity autonomous networks billing and revenue assurance lawful disclosure and network performance with mentorship and guidance from Senior Solutions Architects This is an excellent opportunity to build deep expertise in on-prem capacity-based economics for heavy analytics work alongside governed business-ready data products published to the cloud platforms customers already own.
The role is measured by growth in technical proficiency contributions to proof-of-value engagements and support of production readiness and repeatable customer outcomes with increasing ownership as skills develop.
Responsibilities
Support technical strategy for assigned CSP opportunities partnering with Account Executives and Senior Solution Architects to help build pipeline and qualify opportunities.
Participate in and help facilitate customer discovery workshops to gather use cases data sources data volumes ingest rates success criteria performance requirements concurrency retention time-to-queryability and deployment modalities.
Assist in determining customer needs to determine the best-fit OcientAIQ solution and identify patterns that can become new repeatable offerings. Design end-to-end OcientAIQ and Telemetry as a Service solution including integration with the customers cloud data and AI environment under the guidance of senior team members.
Learn and help apply hybrid architecture and economics concepts balancing on-prem capacity economics for heavy analytics with cloud consumption models for downstream AI reporting and application workloads.
Support technical partner engagements on joint opportunities helping document integration points and joint solution architectures.
Contribute to customer specification documents covering requirements success criteria assumptions risks and architecture decisions with review from senior Solutions Architects.
Partner with Delivery Data Engineering and Customer Solutions on schema workload testing and pilot execution for pilot environments.
Help build demonstrations reference architectures and partner co-selling collateral with Account Executives.
Surface field feedback to Product Management and Engineering.
Ideal Qualifications
1-3 years of customer-facing solutions architecture sales engineering field engineering or technical consulting experience; exposure to CSP telecommunications network analytics OSS/BSS security analytics or high-volume telemetry environments is a plus.
Working knowledge of OLAP real-time analytics or data warehousing concepts across cloud and on-prem.
Some exposure to at least one major cloud data or AI ecosystem such as Databricks Snowflake BigQuery Redshift Azure AWS or Google Cloud.
Familiarity with high-volume ingest patterns including Kafka file-based ingest object storage streaming batch CDC or similar data movement concepts.
Basic familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation structured data products or data governance concepts is a plus.
Working knowledge of SQL and general ETL / ELT concepts; exposure to CSP data formats such as CDR IPDR IPFIX/NetFlow ASN.1 syslog OSS event streams packet metadata or KPI feeds is a plus.
Interest in developing expertise with semantic layers ontology knowledge graphs or graph analytics.
Strong communication skills and eagerness to build technical credibility with customer architects and internal teams.
Strong writing and presentation skills with a willingness to develop requirements documents partner briefs and customer-facing narratives.
Self-starter with strong organizational skills and eagerness to learn across multiple concurrent opportunities.
Willing to travel up to 25-35% of the time.
Interview Requirements: All interviews are conducted via video and require candidates to have their camera on for the duration of the session. The use of video filters face-altering effects or virtual backgrounds is not permitted for security and verification purposes.
We are not open to using an agency or staffing company at this time. We do not accept unsolicited agency or staffing resumes and we are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Ocient is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race creed color religion sex (including pregnancy status) sexual orientation gender identity national origin or ancestry ethnicity citizenship status age physical or mental disability veteran status marital status parental status genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process please contact for more information.
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