Solutions Architect

Who we are:

Validere is an enterprise intelligence platform for the energy industry, serving leading energy producers, midstream operators, and utility providers. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices in Houston, and Calgary, Validere’s software is utilized across thousands of facilities throughout North America, primarily serving clients in the U.S. and Canada with active expansion into international markets. Our team combines deep industry expertise with advanced technology capabilities to help organizations drive operational efficiency, streamline compliance, and surface actionable insights.

Founded in 2016 at Harvard and launched through the Y Combinator program, Validere has garnered support from renowned venture capitalists, including Wing VC, Greylock Partners, Pioneer Fund, Sallyport Fund, Nova Fleet, Blackrock Funds, NGIF Cleantech Ventures, and Mercuria Energy.

About the role:

As a member of the Solutions Architecture team at Validere, you will play a key role in supporting our efforts throughout the entire sales cycle, from technical scoping in pre-sales through to implementation. Leveraging a deep understanding of our product, you will provide strategic technical guidance, help uncover and define customer use cases, and identify opportunities for new solutions. This is a customer-facing role that requires strong technical expertise and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

- Drive Technical Engagements:

Provide technical direction and solution design during the early phases of software implementation

- Collaborate Across Teams:

Partner with Validere’s Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to share feedback that informs the product roadmap and supports key presales processes

- Embrace Continuous Learning:

Maintain a self-directed learning mindset to deepen your understanding of the Validere platform and broader technology stack

- Lead Solution Discovery:

Use your knowledge of the Validere platform to identify innovative solutions to customer challenges, demonstrating their value through product demos and proofs of concept (PoCs)

- Deliver Data Insights:

Analyze data from the Validere platform and external sources to uncover trends, identify opportunities for product improvement, and provide clients with actionable insights

- Lead Technical Workshops:

Lead architecture sessions, technical workshops and demos to accelerate adoption and deepen customer understanding of the Validere platform

- Translate Technology into Business Value:

Communicate complex technical concepts in business terms to help customers understand value, ROI, and impact on their operations

What you’ll bring along:

- Growth mindset, passion for learning new things, restlessness

- First-principles thinking – you have the strong desire to understand any topic at a deeper level than most, and are unsatisfied with decisions based on convention or unjustified assumptions

- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, formulate and test hypotheses quickly and efficiently

- Strong communication and presentation skills - experience with public speaking and workshop facilitation a strong plus

- Experience with Python and common data packages (NumPy, Pandas)

- Ability to work with disparate data sources (i.e. SQL, CSV, APIs) and leverage a Python codebase

- Familiarity with leveraging standard API protocols and practices to query, manipulate and ingest data

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business or another quantitative field (e.g. physics, math, statistics, etc.)

- Preferred: 2+ years experience in a similar role (Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Data Consultant etc.) with a proven track record of taking ownership and driving projects to completion

We love it here, you will too:

- Competitive compensation

- Comprehensive health and dental benefits

- Stock options (at Validere, we're all owners)

- Flexible working arrangements

- Professional development budget to master your craft

- Generous time-off with parental/family leave

- Quarterly Employee Wellbeing Days

- Great Place to Work Certified

- An inclusive, ego-free environment where diversity of people and thought is valued

- Opportunity to impact the trajectory of a fast growing tech company

Our shared values:

- Deliver (the highest) value

- Remove friction

- Make it more scalable everyday

- Be fair & transparent

- Stay well & safe

Validere is an equal employment opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability status. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the interview process and beyond. We are committed to providing an inclusive, open, and diverse work environment.