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Salary: USD 93,420 - 116,730 / annual
Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history, delivering empirical geospatial data via a cloud-based platform to commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. As a Solutions Architect I in Professional Services, you will work with customers to ensure successful adoption of Planet's product offerings.
You will apply expertise in remote sensing and geospatial technologies to help customers succeed with the Planet Platform. Your responsibilities include understanding and aligning Professional Services project development to customers' business and technology strategies, building software tools and proofs of concept using Planet's APIs and analytics endpoints, and owning the customer success lifecycle from scoping and discovery through project execution and delivery.
Key responsibilities:
- Build software tools, proofs of concept, and sample applications using Planet's APIs
- Own customer success lifecycle for Professional Services engagements, including scoping, discovery, project execution, and requirements documentation
- Collaborate with Sales to close business opportunities and grow Planet's customer base
- Influence product direction by gathering insights from customer engagements
- Build and maintain APIs serving enterprise and federal customers
- Deliver tailored solutions aligned to client needs
- Define, create, and analyze usage metrics to drive customer growth
- Lead training events and collaborate with software engineers
This is a full-time, hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in the Arlington, VA office.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience working in DoD/IC space in a technical capacity
- Bachelor's degree in GIS, Computer Science, Remote Sensing, Geography, or related field
- Ability to quickly learn unfamiliar systems and code bases
- Experience working in dynamic environments and tackling unique challenges
- Experience progressing team initiatives and developing new ideas
- Experience debugging and triaging complex problems
- Willingness to collaborate across teams and work independently
Desirable qualifications:
- Current TS/SCI Clearance
- Working knowledge of JavaScript and mapping libraries (OpenLayers, Leaflet, ArcGIS API for JavaScript)
- Experience with Google Earth Engine and its SDK
- Experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL, SQL) and distributed databases (NoSQL)
- Python programming for imagery processing, vector data manipulation, API interaction, and data pipelines
- Familiarity with Linux systems and shell scripting
- Expertise with QGIS, Esri software, GDAL, or other geospatial software
- Experience with cloud deployments (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Experience designing and evolving public-facing APIs
- Ability to lead customer engagements
- Experience with Multi-Domain/Multi-Level Security architectures
