Senior Solutions Architect

Confluent; Dubai; Remote; AED 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global data streaming company is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to join their Professional Services team in the Middle East. This role involves helping customers implement real-time data streaming solutions leveraging Apache Kafka and ensuring high delivery standards. Candidates should have over 6 years of experience in Professional Services and a strong background in Big Data systems. The position allows for remote work and may require travel to meet clients.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of Professional Services/Integration/Delivery experience required.
• Deep experience with designing and building production Big Data solutions essential.
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex solutions.

Responsibilities

• Help customers with real-time, event-based business strategies.
• Provide feedback to Product and Engineering groups.
• Build tooling for technical improvements.
• Test performance and functionality of new components.
• Write or edit documentation based on customer experiences.
• Participate in community and industry events.

Skills

Professional Services Experience

Deep experience with Apache Kafka

B2B infrastructure software management

Linux OS

Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Distributed systems

Java or Python proficiency

Excellent communication skills

Quick learner

Willingness to travel

Job description

Location:Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Employment Type:FullTime

Location Type:Remote

DepartmentCustomer Solutions

Overview

We’re not just building better tech. We’re rewriting how data moves and what the world can do with it. With Confluent, data doesn’t sit still. Our platform puts information in motion, streaming in near real‑time so companies can react faster, build smarter, and deliver experiences as dynamic as the world around them.

It takes a certain kind of person to join this team. Those who ask hard questions, give honest feedback, and show up for each other. No egos, no solo acts. Just smart, curious humans pushing toward something bigger, together.

One Confluent. One Team. One Data Streaming Platform.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to join our Professional Services team in the Middle East. As a Senior Solutions Architect (SA), you will help customers leverage streaming architectures and applications to achieve their business results. In this role, you will interact directly with customers to provide software architecture, design, and operations expertise that leverages your deep knowledge of and experience in Apache Kafka, the Confluent platform, and complementary systems such as Hadoop, Spark, Storm, relational and NoSQL databases. You will develop and advocate best practices, gather and validate critical product feedback, and help customers overcome their operational challenges.

Throughout all these interactions, you will build a strong relationship with your customer in a very short space of time, ensuring exemplary delivery standards. You will also have the opportunity to help customers build state‑of‑the‑art streaming data infrastructure, in partnership with colleagues who are widely recognized as industry leaders, as well as optimizing and debugging customers existing deployments.

What You Will Do

• Helping a customer determine his/her platform and/or application strategy for moving to a more real‑time, event‑based business. Such engagements often involve remote preparation; presenting an onsite or remote workshop for the customer’s architects, developers, and operations teams; investigating (with Engineering and other coworkers) solutions to difficult challenges; and writing a recommendations summary doc.
• Providing feedback to the Confluent Product and Engineering groups
• Building tooling for another team or the wider company to help us push our technical boundaries and improve our ability to deliver consistently with high quality
• Testing performance and functionality of new components developed by Engineering
• Writing or editing documentation and knowledge base articles, including reference architecture materials and design patterns based on customer experiences. Honing your skills, building applications, or trying out new product features
• Participating in community and industry events

What You Will Bring

• 6+ years of Professional Services Experience/Integration/Delivery experience
• Deep experience designing, building, and operating in‑production Big Data, stream processing, and/or enterprise data integration solutions, ideally using Apache Kafka
• Demonstrated experience successfully managing multiple B2B infrastructure software development projects, including driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption, and retention
• Experience operating Linux (configure, tune, and troubleshoot both RedHat and Debian‑based distributions)
• Experience using cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure) for running high‑throughput systems
• Experience with distributed systems (Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.)
• Proficiency in Java or Python
• Excellent communication skills, with an ability to clearly and concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies
• Ability and willingness to travel to meet with customers

Ready to build what's next? Let’s get in motion.

Come As You Are

Belonging isn’t a perk here. It’s the baseline. We work across time zones and backgrounds, knowing the best ideas come from different perspectives. And we make space for everyone to lead, grow, and challenge what’s possible.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Employment decisions are based on job‑related criteria, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law.