Leads pre-sales design of modern enterprise data platforms, including lakehouse, warehouse, federated, and data-product architectures. Advises customers on data strategy, legacy estate modernization, integration, governance, semantic layers, security, observability, FinOps, and AI-ready data. Leads discovery workshops, demonstrations, proofs of value, proposals, RFP responses, TCO and ROI modeling, partner engagement, and technical handoffs. Develops reusable reference architectures and go-to-market offerings while mentoring colleagues and maintaining platform expertise.