Senior Solutions Architect - Airflow (West Coast)
Astronomer · San Francisco, CA
$190,000–$250,000from the description
Jul 13, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior technical role embedded within a professional services delivery team, working alongside project managers and engineers to help enterprise customers design, deploy, and modernize data orchestration platforms built on Apache Airflow. Day-to-day work spans leading architecture reviews and design workshops, hands-on prototyping, diagnosing platform issues, and producing reusable reference architectures. Best suited to experienced data or platform engineers with deep Airflow knowledge and a background in client-facing technical engagements.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,050 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer systems analysts). range 630–1,550
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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What the occupation pays Median $108,178 (middle half $84,682–$137,059). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (6)
The role sits between Solutions/Systems Architecture (15-1211) and hands-on Software Development (15-1252); the JD explicitly combines 'solution architecture with hands-on technical work, including building prototypes,' making the classification a genuine judgment call. 15-1211 was chosen because customer-facing architecture design, workshops, and translating business requirements are the primary day-to-day activities.
Cloud platform requirement lists AWS, Azure, and GCP as alternatives — AWS is used as the primary name with the others captured as alternatives.
CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) are listed together under requirements with 'Familiarity with' framing, which is softer language; however, they appear in the core requirements block alongside Docker and Kubernetes, so all four are treated as hard gates. IaC is not emitted as a standalone skill since no specific tool (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi) is named — Terraform is included as a preferred skill as the most common IaC tool, but the JD does not explicitly name it.
Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, BigQuery, and Redshift are listed together in the requirements block; they are treated as a set of interchangeable platform alternatives rather than individually required tools, with Databricks as the primary and the others as alternatives.
Compensation range of $190,000–$250,000/year is stated as an estimate; actual pay may vary based on skills, experience, and geography. Equity and benefits are also mentioned but not quantified.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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