Solutions Engineer - Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) & Geospatial Data
dataplor
United States
Posted on May 13, 2025
About Us
Our mission at dataplor is to comprehensively map and understand every commercial location on the planet. We provide insights on every merchant in the world, covering 350M+ businesses and places, empowering organizations with high-quality location intelligence to drive strategic decision-making. After more than doubling our revenue last year, we closed a Series B round of funding and are excited to grow the team and take this rocketship to the next level!
Role Overview
We are seeking a dynamic Solutions Engineer to drive revenue growth by designing and delivering data-driven solutions that address complex business challenges. This role requires expertise in supporting the pre-sales process for DaaS solutions, geospatial data products, or enterprise data platforms. You will collaborate closely with prospects, customers, and internal teams — including Sales, Product, and Engineering — to demonstrate technical capabilities and craft solutions that align with customer needs and strategic goals.
Key Responsibilities
Our mission at dataplor is to comprehensively map and understand every commercial location on the planet. We provide insights on every merchant in the world, covering 350M+ businesses and places, empowering organizations with high-quality location intelligence to drive strategic decision-making. After more than doubling our revenue last year, we closed a Series B round of funding and are excited to grow the team and take this rocketship to the next level!
Role Overview
We are seeking a dynamic Solutions Engineer to drive revenue growth by designing and delivering data-driven solutions that address complex business challenges. This role requires expertise in supporting the pre-sales process for DaaS solutions, geospatial data products, or enterprise data platforms. You will collaborate closely with prospects, customers, and internal teams — including Sales, Product, and Engineering — to demonstrate technical capabilities and craft solutions that align with customer needs and strategic goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Account Executives, Product Management, and Engineering throughout the sales cycle
- Lead technical and value-based discovery to assess client data needs; communicate technical capabilities and articulate the business impact of dataplor’s location intelligence and big data analytics solutions
- Think creatively, act resourcefully, and move quickly in designing and delivering cloud data platform solutions for prospects
- Build conceptual and technical frameworks that show how dataplor’s data architecture solves unique customer challenges
- Deliver presentations and live demonstrations that resonate across audiences — from data scientists and engineers to business decision-makers
- Identify opportunities to extend use cases beyond initial project scopes through technical discovery and business impact analysis
- Contribute to internal solution playbooks, technical collateral, and reusable demo environments
- Apply knowledge of Master Data Management (MDM), geospatial data analysis, and data quality efforts to influence technical evaluations and bring them to closure
- Maintain a deep understanding of Points of Interest (POI), mobility data, and location-based intelligence
- 2+ years in a pre-sales, sales engineering, solutions architecture, or technical consulting role, ideally in a data or SaaS company
- Comfortable guiding prospects through best practices in data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and visualization
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Advanced SQL experience, including querying large datasets and performing spatial analytics
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills — able to align technical solutions with business value and drive deal momentum
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in fast-paced, cross-functional environments and manage multiple technical sales engagements simultaneously
- Extensive experience working with location data, point of interest data, or mobility data
- Experience with geospatial analysis in SQL, Python, and GIS
- Data mastering, deduplication logic, or entity resolution workflows
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO and paid holidays
- Monthly Uber Eats Credit
- Industrious or similar co-working membership
- Semi annual team retreats and ad hoc meetups
- A collaborative and supportive work environment