Lighthouse Architect

$183K — $305K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in technical consulting, solution architecture, or enterprise IT roles.
  • Strong experience in designing complex enterprise solutions.
  • Direct experience in customer advisory or pre/post-sales roles.
  • Ability to communicate complex concepts to different audiences.
  • Proven track record in working independently with executive-level customers.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted advisor for strategic customers.
  • Understand customer objectives and technical needs.
  • Translate requirements into scalable architecture recommendations.
  • Build relationships with customer stakeholders.
  • Design and validate solution architectures aligned to best practices.
  • Lead technical discovery and architecture reviews.
  • Drive customer outcomes by increasing adoption of solutions.

Benefits

  • Employee ownership program.
  • Comprehensive health insurance coverage.
  • 401k plan with matching contributions.
  • Disability insurance.
  • Generous paid time off policies.
  • Opportunities for professional growth and development.
Full Job Description

Job Description:

What is theopportunity?

The Lighthouse Architect is a senior, customer-facing technical advisor responsible for helping enterprise customers design, implement, and operationalize solutions that drive long-term success and value realization. Acting as a trusted partner, the Lighthouse Architect bridges businessobjectivesand technical execution, providingarchitectural guidance, risk mitigation, and ongoing optimization throughout the customer lifecycle.This role is hands-on, consultative, and highly collaborative—working closely with customers, internal product and engineering teams, sales, and delivery partners to ensure successful outcomes and sustained customer confidence.

Key Responsibilities:

Customer Engagement & Advisory

  • Serve as a trusted technical advisor for assigned strategic customers.
  • Understand customer business goals, technical environments, and success criteria.
  • Translate customer requirements into practical, scalable architecture recommendations.
  • Build long-term relationships with customer technical and business stakeholders.
  • Partner with account teams to align technical strategy to renewal, adoption, and expansion goals—maintaininga strong value narrative with customer leaders.

Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

  • Design,validate, and evolve solution architectures aligned to best practices and customerobjectives.
  • Lead technical discovery, architecture reviews, and design workshops.
  • Provide guidance on deployment models, integrations, scalability, performance, and security.
  • Identifytechnical risks early and drive mitigation strategies.

Delivery & Execution Support

  • Partner with implementation teams, partners, and customer resources during onboarding and major initiatives.
  • Provide oversight and technical direction without necessarily owning day-to-day project management.
  • Support complex troubleshooting and act as an escalation point for architectural issues.
  • Validate solutions against desired outcomes and architectural intent.

Customer Success, Adoption & Value Realization

  • Proactively drive customer outcomes by increasing adoption and effective usage of current entitlements, ensuring customers realize measurable value from the solutions they already own.
  • Identifyand remove adoption or consumption blockers (process, technical, or organizational), partnering with customer stakeholders and internal teams to accelerate progress.
  • Translate customerobjectivesinto a practical adoption roadmap (milestones, success criteria, operational readiness) that supports renewal health and long-term stickiness.
  • Spot and qualify expansion opportunities by connecting customer initiatives and emerging use cases toadditionalsolution capabilities, and coordinatewith account teams to pursue growth paths responsibly.

Internal Collaboration & Enablement

  • Collaborate with Sales, Customer Success, Product, Support, and Engineering teams.
  • Provide customer feedback to influence product direction and roadmap alignment.
  • Share patterns, lessons learned, and best practices across the Lighthouse team.
  • Contribute to internal documentation,enablementcontent, and architectural standards.

What will you bring toOmnissa

  • 8+ years of experience in technical consulting, solution architecture, or enterprise IT roles.
  • Strong background in designing and supporting complex enterprise solutions.
  • Experience working directly with customers in advisory or pre/post-sales technical roles.
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Proven ability tooperateindependently with executive-level customers.
  • Strong problem-solving, communication, and relationship management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience supporting large, complex enterprise accounts.
  • Familiarity with modern enterprise architectures (cloud, identity, security, endpoint, virtualization, integrations, etc.).
  • Experience influencing technical decisions without direct authority.
  • Prior experience in Customer Success, Architecture, or Professional Services organizations.

Success in This Role Looks Like

  • Customers trust you as a strategic technical partner, not just a support resource.
  • Architectures arewell-designed, resilient, and aligned to customer business goals.
  • Technical risks areanticipatedand addressed before becoming escalations.
  • Customers adopt solutions successfully and continue to expandusageover time.
  • Internal teams rely on Lighthouse Architects for clarity, guidance, and leadership.

Location:  USA
Location Type:Remote
Travel Expectations:None
Compensation: The typical base salary for this role is between USD $183,150– $305,250 per year and it may be eligible for participation in a corporate bonus program. Actual compensation offer may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, skill level, or other relevant factors. In addition to competitive compensation, Omnissa offers a variety of benefits such as employee ownership, health insurance, 401k with matching contributions, disability insurance, paid-time off, growth opportunities, and more.

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