Solutions Architect Deployment Strategist

About the Company

Planet designs, builds, and operates the largest constellation of imaging satellites in history. This constellation delivers an unprecedented dataset of empirical information via a revolutionary cloud‑based platform to authoritative figures in commercial, environmental, and humanitarian sectors. Planet is both a space company and a data company.

Planet’s Professional Services team helps our Defense and Intelligence (D&I) customers adopt the Planet Platform and rapidly realize return on investment in Planet data and analytics. The Professional Services Global D&I team is looking for a Solutions Architect responsible for the implementation, integration, and analysis of new software and data products that extend the Planet Platform and deliver new capabilities to our strategic D&I customers.

In this role, you will be embedded with our customer to train users on Planet products, translate requirements, design workflows, and communicate with Planet’s product team on mission‑critical capabilities.

• Understand clients’ needs and deliver tailored solutions
• Break down ambiguous, high‑stakes problems into clearly defined, solvable components
• Leverage analytical skills to deliver products to our D&I customers and support mission requirements
• Design workflows, defining data models, configuring integrations, and helping define tooling that aligns to the customer’s mission
• Train users, iterate with them in real time, and ensure that Planet solutions become mission‑critical to daily operations
• Translate operational requirements into actionable product feedback for Planet’s engineering teams
• Communicate technical capabilities back to customers in clear, mission‑focused language
• Rapidly prototype, test, and adjust workflows to match real operational needs
• Mapping out high‑level strategy with decision makers by sitting next to analysts to debug workflows
• Work closely with customer teams to understand their workflows, pain points, and mission priorities

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software, Systems Engineering, or similar
• 4+ years of experience in supporting D&I customers, with specialized technical experience in the general areas of systems integration
• Fluent in Golang, Python, Postgresql, & React or related technologies
• Experience with cloud deployments; GCP, AWS, Azure
• Solid problem‑solving and systems thinking skills
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management
• Ability to quickly learn new technical domains and tools
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high‑pressure environments
• Deep curiosity and willingness to dive into operational details
• Fluency in translating between technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with solving complex problems through analytical skills
• Experience scaling and maintaining production systems

• Experience working with defense and intelligence organizations in the UAE
• Systems integrations experience working with multi‑domain/multi‑level security architectures, particularly the Defence and Intelligence
• Working knowledge of JavaScript and its mapping libraries (Open Layers, Leaflet, ArcGIS API for JavaScript), Google Earth Engine and its SDK
• Experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL, SQL) and distributed databases (No
  
  SQL)
• Experience in geopolitics and data science
• Ability to pick up new technologies quickly
• Experience with building analytical products from complex datasets
• Experience with geospatial technologies and data
• GEOINT experience, imagery exploitation and analysis
• Fluent in multiple languages

• Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off
• Employee Wellness Program
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to Linked In Learning
• Equity
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

Role Level: Not Applicable

Work Type:
Full‑Time

Country:
United Arab Emirates

City:
Abu Dhabi

Company Website:

Job Function:
Information Technology (IT)

Company Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting

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