Senior Solutions Architect - Enterprise

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people packages and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications data SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.

What You'll Do

Solutions Architects are trusted technical and business advisors who partner with customers to design prototype and deliver solutions on the Mapbox platform. You connect business needs with technical possibilities helping customers turn data mobility and mapping into effective digital experiences. You collaborate with account managers to lead technical engagements — from discovery and design to solution validation and deployment. You guide customers in using Mapbox products strategically to achieve measurable business outcomes.

This role is ideal for someone who combines technical depth with commercial acumen enjoys working directly with customers and thrives at the intersection of strategy architecture and delivery.

• Solution Architecture: Design and present scalable architectures using Mapbox SDKs APIs and platform services.

• Technical Discovery: Lead technical discussions to identify customer goals challenges and requirements.

• Prototyping & Proof of Value: Build and deliver proof-of-concept solutions that demonstrate customer value.

• Pre-Sales Enablement: Partner with Account Executives to position technical differentiation and shape opportunities.

• Location Intelligence: Apply expertise in GIS spatial data processing and business value.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate effectively with developers architects and senior decision-makers.

• Customer Advocacy: Provide structured feedback from the field and raise feature requests to influence Mapbox product and engineering roadmaps.

• Continuous Learning: Stay current on emerging technologies in mapping visualization mobility and AI.

• Support enterprise customers across multiple domains focusing on On-Demand Logistics Telecommunications and Weather.

• Advise on cloud-native architectures cloud and on-premise solutions back-office APIs and client-side SDKs for global deployments.

• Review Mapbox solutions in alignment with customers’ data warehouses business intelligence and geospatial analytics workflows.

• Collaborate with customers to define technical success criteria and ensure solution designs meet business objectives.

What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role

• Experience: 8+ years in solutions architecture pre-sales engineering or enterprise consulting with a record of customer-facing success.

• Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field (preferred).

• Domain Expertise: Proven experience with GIS location intelligence and geospatial data processing including spatial databases vector and raster data geocoding routing and map rendering.

• Technical Skills

  • Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (certification in AWS Azure or GCP is desirable).

  • Proven experience with web and mobile technologies (Required: JavaScript. Highly desirable: Swift Kotlin Python. Desirable: React Native Flutter).

  • Proven experience with back-end APIs and front-end SDKs in geospatial and mobility domains.

• Architecture & Design: Proven ability to translate complex requirements into scalable robust technical architectures aligned with customer objectives.

• Solution Selling: Demonstrated ability to articulate how technical architectures deliver business value connecting design decisions to commercial outcomes and ROI.

• Collaboration: Proven ability to work autonomously while effectively partnering across distributed cross-functional teams (Sales Product Engineering and Customer Success).

• Communication: Exceptional written verbal and presentation skills with both technical and executive audiences.

• Strategic Mindset: Capable of bridging high-level business strategy with technical implementation.

• Mobility: Willingness to travel up to 25% for customer meetings workshops and industry events.

• Experience working with large enterprise customers across multiple domains including On-Demand Logistics Telecommunications and Weather.

• Sphere of influence to engage and abstract solutions across Exec Product Project Engineering Managers and Developers

• Proven capability to lead technical discovery and workshops in complex enterprise ecosystems.

What We Value

In addition to our core values which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:

• We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.

• We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care parental leave flexibility for the things that come up in life and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.

• We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.

• We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds genders ethnicities abilities and sexual orientations to apply.

By applying for this position you acknowledge that you have received the Mapbox Non-US Privacy Notice for applicants which is linked here.  Completing this application requires you to provide personal data such as your name and contact information which is mandatory for Mapbox to process your application.

We are committed to a fair and equitable hiring process. We do not discriminate against any protected class.

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