Senior Staff Deployment Strategist, Technical Advisory & Solutioning

Company: Alation
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you drive enterprise-scale transformations at strategic accounts, aligning data governance, catalog, and AI concepts with executive priorities. You partner with C-suite stakeholders to define roadmaps, architecture, and governance frameworks, delivering measurable outcomes over multi-quarter initiatives. You influence product direction with field insights and scale delivery through repeatable playbooks and standards. This is a high-impact, leadership-facing role at a fast-moving data and AI platform company.

Pay / Benefits

  • hybrid work model
  • competitive compensation
  • OTE (UK)
  • travel to customer sites
  • opportunity to influence product direction
  • focus on data governance and AI initiatives

Responsibilities

  • Own multi-quarter transformation outcomes across strategic accounts
  • Lead executive discovery and define enterprise transformation roadmaps with KPIs
  • Engage with C-suite stakeholders and conduct executive conversations
  • Make architecture decisions for large-scale rollouts and governance posture
  • Manage end-to-end lifecycle outcomes: strategy, deployment, adoption, value, expansion
  • Architect enterprise-scale patterns and governance frameworks
  • Lead Executive Business Reviews and value realization narratives
  • Drive expansion opportunities via clear value narratives and roadmaps
  • Serve as escalation authority for high-risk technical and stakeholder issues
  • Influence product direction through high-quality field insights
  • Lead team- or department-level initiatives to scale delivery standards

Key requirements

  • 10+ years in technical delivery, solutions consulting, or forward-deployed roles in data/AI platforms
  • Deep understanding of AI technologies, architecture, and ecosystem (LLMs, agent patterns, data platforms)
  • Strong knowledge of enterprise data and cloud platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Experience with data or AI governance concepts and defining governance frameworks
  • Executive presence with experience leading at the C-suite level
  • Ability to frame ambiguity into transformation plans and phased roadmaps
  • Proven leadership in shaping team or organizational standards and playbooks
  • Travel approximately 25–40% for customer onsite visits
  • Executive presence
  • Strategic thinking
  • Problem solving
  • AI technologies and architecture
  • LLMs and agent patterns
  • Data platforms in the cloud

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Posted: October 1st, 2026