The posting explicitly lists Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago in the allowed countries metadata, operates within LATAM scope with no language requirement beyond English, and the timezone window (Eastern/Central US) overlaps substantially with UTC-5 (Kingston, Jamaica). The role is full-time employee but no work authorization restriction is stated, only remote-first status is required.
“Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia +19 more” Geographic scope — Caribbean named explicitly; included subject to G3 (which passed above).
“suriname” Geographic scope — Structured location list contains unrecognisable entries — templated artifact, not trusted as scope.
“Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela” Geographic scope — Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago are explicitly listed in the source-provided allowed countries, confirming the role is open to the target user's home region.
“This role is based in LATAM and operates primarily in Eastern US time zone with significant overlap with Central time zone.” Geographic scope — LATAM scope is confirmed; however, the explicit country list (which includes Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago) overrides the typical LATAM exclusion because the Caribbean is named in the allowed countries.
“This role is based in LATAM and operates primarily in Eastern US time zone with significant overlap with Central time zone.” Timezone — Eastern US time zone (UTC-5) aligns perfectly with Jamaica (UTC-5). Central time zone (UTC-6) still allows 4+ hours overlap within the target user's working day 08:00-18:00 UTC-5.
“We are a remote-first company, and you should be comfortable working with a distributed global team.” Language — No language requirement beyond English is stated or implied anywhere in the posting; the role does not require bilingual capability or non-English language proficiency.
Join phData , a remote-first data and AI consultancy company with employees across the United States, Latin America, and India. We partner with industry leaders, including Snowflake, AWS, Anthropic, Glean, and dbt, to solve the complex data and AI challenges that slow large enterprises.
We're growing fast, and we give our people real ownership over their work. We hire top performers and trust them to deliver results.
We are looking for a Solutions Architect – Managed Services to join our Elastic Platform Operations (EPO) team. In this role, you will lead the design, implementation, and ongoing optimization of cloud-native data platforms on Snowflake, AWS, and Azure for our managed services clients, ensuring they are secure, scalable, and aligned to strategic business goals. You will collaborate closely with clients, internal engineering and support teams, and practice leadership to deliver high-quality solutions, maximize platform ROI, and advance phData ’s delivery excellence.
Translate business and technical requirements into secure, scalable platform solutions, including migrations from legacy platforms (e.g., Redshift, Azure Data Warehouse), integration of data lakes and data warehouses, and performance optimization of enterprise data workloads.
Ensure engagements are delivered on time, within scope, and with measurable business value by proactively optimizing platform performance, reliability, and costs through automation, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
Collaborate with cross-functional partners across sales, engineering, and support, as well as client stakeholders including executives, to align platform strategies and roadmaps with business goals and ensure high customer satisfaction.
Ensure high quality in deliverables through robust architecture standards, documentation, testing, and governance, including the implementation of strong security and data governance practices on client platforms.
Partner with practice and account leaders to manage multiple customer engagements simultaneously, preventing resource overruns, maximizing platform ROI, and reinforcing phData ’s Operational Maturity Framework with clients.
Contribute to the evolution of phData ’s Elastic Platform Operations offerings by promoting the Operational Maturity Framework, codifying best practices, and feeding lessons learned back into accelerators, templates, and playbooks.
You are a strategic, client-focused solutions architect who enjoys building and operating scalable, cloud-native data platforms that solve complex business problems. You are comfortable leading technical teams, managing multiple projects, and operating in distributed, global environments where outcomes and continuous improvement matter more than routines. You bring a hands-on mindset, strong communication skills, and a passion for aligning data infrastructure with long-term business goals.
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