Sr. Staff Deployment Strategist - London

Alation is pioneering the next era of data intelligence — powered by AI agents and trusted data. Organizations around the world rely on Alation to drive self-service analytics, cloud transformation, data governance, and AI innovation. Our technology helps enterprises connect people and data to make faster, smarter, and more confident decisions. With more than $340M in funding – valued at over $1.7 billion and more than 650 customers, including 40% of the Fortune 100. As data becomes the foundation of every business, Alation is leading the way in helping organizations unlock their full potential. By bringing intelligence, automation, and trust to every interaction, we empower customers to scale data-driven innovation with confidence and speed.

Joining Alation means being part of a winning team shaping the future of AI-powered data intelligence. We move fast, think big, and deliver results together.

Job Description:

Join Alation to drive business transformation and technical excellence at the intersection of data intelligence, AI, and governance. As a Sr. Staff Deployment Strategist, you act as a hybrid between a strategic consultant and a forward-deployed solution architect, partnering directly with customers to discover, define, design, and deliver high-impact agentic solutions using Alation’s configuration-first platform. As a strategic member of the account team, you own the full client lifecycle from vision setting to realised outcomes; translating ambition into enterprise-grade deployments that drive measurable value. As a visionary builder, you will work side-by-side with C-suite executives to define their data strategy, prototype, and deploy analytical and governance agentic workflows that turn your strategy into the realisation of tangible business outcomes. This role will report to the Sr. Manager, Deployment Strategy in the EMEA Region.

What You Will Do

• Strategic Discovery & Solution Design (Initiation)
• Diagnose & Prescribe: Lead executive discovery sessions to surface business challenges, critical bottlenecks, data + governance gaps, and high-value opportunities for AI automation.
• Rapid Prototyping: Rapidly prototype and validate AI agent solutions using Alation’s platform - don’t just describe the solution, show it! Build functional low/no-code prototypes and "proof of concept" agents within the Alation platform (and other tools) to validate hypotheses and demonstrate immediate value.
• Business Case Development: Quantify business value through clear KPIs and ROI modeling, linking technical possibilities to enterprise outcomes. Translate technical capabilities into clear business outcomes that justify investment.
• Solution Architecture: Work with an incredible technical team to architect tailored deployment paths, balancing configuration-first quick wins with scalable custom solutions.
• Delivery Ownership & Client Integration (Implementation)
• Forward-Deployed Delivery: Own end-to-end deployment of configuration-first deployments. You are responsible for configuring core application capabilities, logic, and agentic behaviours to meet client needs.
• Operational Integration: Ensure solutions are not just "installed" but "embedded." Work with client teams to integrate new workflows into their daily operations, ensuring adoption and stickiness.
• Technical Orchestration: Translate strategic objectives into actionable technical requirements, manage projects and coordinate with technical counterparts.
• Feedback Loop: Serve as the bridge between client stakeholders and Alation’s product teams for continuous solution refinement. Your insights from the field will directly influence the next generation of our platform’s capabilities.
• Value Realisation & Growth (Transition & Growth)
• Value Realisation: Conduct Executive Business Reviews (EBRs) to present the "value delivered" to customer leadership, using data to prove the solution's impact on their business.
• Strategic Partnership: Evolve from delivery lead to trusted advisor, identifying new growth opportunities and business challenges that can be solved with Alation, championing deeper client maturity.
• Feedback Loop: Act as the customer’s voice within Alation, translating market needs into future product capabilities.

What You Bring

• Experience: 8+ years in management consulting (strategy, operations, tech) or forward-deployed solution roles at data platform companies.
• Proven Technical Fluency: Hands-on with data (SQL essential), familiar with Python, APIs, and modern data architectures. Technical fluency, not engineering depth. You can read code, work in SQL, build in low/no-code platforms, and hold your own with a technical team--but you're not writing production software.
• Executive Presence: Executive presence with superior communication skills. You are a confident facilitator, advisor, and strategic partner at the C-level.
• Builder Portfolio: Demonstrated track record of building and deploying low/no-code solutions, driving from prototype to production.
• Problem Solving: Relentless problem solver, always synthesising ambiguity into clear, actionable recommendations. Experience influencing product direction by surfacing client needs and market insights.
• AI & Data Governance: Deep understanding of agentic patterns, LLMs, data governance, and metadata management (preferred).
• Advanced Education: Technical undergraduate or graduate program. An Advanced degree (MBA, technical Master’s) is a plus. But demonstrated impact and leadership matter most.
• Ability to travel for customer and prospect onsite visits (approx. 25 – 40%).