Start with the five-company bench contrast before outreach
Databricks 1505, Snowflake 322, MongoDB 305, Elastic 227, Confluent 54: five records add to 2413. Sales Engineer, Customer Success Manager, and Software Engineer stay outside this page's scope.
Customer-facing architecture seat: spelled-out Solutions Architect only
The seat is spelled-out Solutions Architect only; Senior joins the same family. Five exclusive homepage records total 2413 as of 2026-09-17 PT (9/17).
Denominator: sum of current Solutions Architect profiles across five exclusive company homepage records, as of 2026-09-17 PT (9/17).
Databricks 1505 on its exclusive record sets the architecture ceiling
Databricks sets the top of the range. Its own exclusive company homepage record, www.databricks.com, carries 1505 current Solutions Architect profiles as of 2026-09-17 PT (9/17). Nobody else in the pack comes close, and because the record is exclusive to Databricks, that 1505 is not inflated by acquired or parent brands.
Denominator: current profiles on the Databricks exclusive homepage record (www.databricks.com) matching Solutions Architect / Senior Solutions Architect, as of 2026-09-17 PT (9/17).
Snowflake 322 is the second architecture rung on its own record
Snowflake follows on its own exclusive company homepage record, www.snowflake.com, with 322 current Solutions Architect profiles as of 2026-09-17 PT (9/17). Against Databricks, this rung is narrower under the same seat definition; the difference is bench depth rather than a different scope.
Denominator: current profiles on the Snowflake exclusive homepage record (www.snowflake.com) matching Solutions Architect / Senior Solutions Architect, as of 2026-09-17 PT (9/17).
MongoDB 305 and Elastic 227 hold the data-platform mid band
MongoDB holds the mid band with 305 current profiles on www.mongodb.com, and Elastic follows with 227 on www.elastic.co, both as of 2026-09-17 PT (9/17). The mid band is often the most under-read rung.
Denominator: current profiles on MongoDB (www.mongodb.com) and Elastic (www.elastic.co) exclusive homepage records matching Solutions Architect / Senior Solutions Architect, as of 2026-09-17 PT (9/17).
Confluent 54 closes the streaming architecture tail
Confluent closes the tail with 54 current Solutions Architect profiles on its own exclusive company homepage record, www.confluent.io, as of 2026-09-17 PT (9/17). A tail bench is not a dismissal: for hiring moves that need a precise seat picture, 54 is still a reachable, comparable pool.
Denominator: current profiles on the Confluent exclusive homepage record (www.confluent.io) matching Solutions Architect / Senior Solutions Architect, as of 2026-09-17 PT (9/17).
The pack total of 2413 adds five exclusive data-platform records
The pack total is 2413 current Solutions Architect profiles, the sum of the five exclusive company homepage records: 1505 + 322 + 305 + 227 + 54 = 2413, as of 2026-09-17 PT (9/17). Because the five records do not overlap on the seat being counted, the total is a clean addition.
Denominator: sum of current profiles across five exclusive company homepage records, as of 2026-09-17 PT (9/17).
Sales engineering and success titles stay outside the 2413
Sales Engineer, Customer Success Manager, and Software Engineer titles remain outside the 2413. They may sit beside Solutions Architect on the same org chart, but the pack counts only the one spelled-out seat, so the total stays traceable to five exclusive company homepage records as of 2026-09-17 PT (9/17).
Denominator: sum of current Solutions Architect profiles across five exclusive company homepage records; Sales Engineer, Customer Success Manager, and Software Engineer sit outside this denominator, as of 2026-09-17 PT (9/17).
Methodology
Counting rule for this chapter. Every figure is a count of current profiles on one named company's own exclusive homepage record — Databricks, Snowflake, MongoDB, Elastic, Confluent — never a rolled-up parent entity. The seat is kept deliberately narrow: spelled-out Solutions Architect, with Senior counted in the same family. All numbers share a single as-of date, 2026-09-17 PT. Source: Metix AI.
| Metric | Value | Denominator |
|---|---|---|
| Databricks | 1505 | current profiles on the Databricks exclusive homepage record (www.databricks.com) matching Solutions Architect / Senior Solutions Architect |
| Snowflake | 322 | current profiles on the Snowflake exclusive homepage record (www.snowflake.com) matching Solutions Architect / Senior Solutions Architect |
| MongoDB | 305 | current profiles on the MongoDB exclusive homepage record (www.mongodb.com) matching Solutions Architect / Senior Solutions Architect |
| Elastic | 227 | current profiles on the Elastic exclusive homepage record (www.elastic.co) matching Solutions Architect / Senior Solutions Architect |
| Confluent | 54 | current profiles on the Confluent exclusive homepage record (www.confluent.io) matching Solutions Architect / Senior Solutions Architect |
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The published pack is fixed at 2413 across the five exclusive company homepage records; the same single-seat scope can be applied to a different company record for your next hiring decision.
FAQ
- Why these five companies and not other Solutions Architect employers?
- Because each of the five — Databricks, Snowflake, MongoDB, Elastic, Confluent — has its own exclusive company homepage record, so its bench can be counted directly. Together they hold 2413 current Solutions Architect profiles across the five exclusive company homepage records as of 2026-09-17 PT.
- Does the total of 2413 include Sales Engineer, Customer Success Manager, or Software Engineer titles?
- No. The 2413 is the sum of current Solutions Architect profiles on the five exclusive company homepage records (1505 + 322 + 305 + 227 + 54) as of 2026-09-17 PT; Sales Engineer, Customer Success Manager, and Software Engineer titles are counted outside this seat.
- Why does Databricks sit at 1505 while Confluent sits at 54?
- The counting rule is identical for both: current Solutions Architect profiles on each company's own exclusive homepage record as of 2026-09-17 PT. Databricks's record holds 1505 and Confluent's holds 54, so the gap reflects bench depth rather than a different scope.
- Can this same Solutions Architect seat cut be remade for a company outside the published 2413-person pack?
- Yes. The published solutions architect peer pack stays fixed at 2413 across the five exclusive homepage records as of 2026-09-17 PT, and the same spelled-out Solutions Architect seat can be applied to another company record on request.
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