Customer Success Technical Architect - German Speaking

Confluent; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 95.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading technology company in Barcelona is looking for a Customer Success Technical Architect to ensure customer success and retention through technical guidance. The role requires fluency in German and involves collaborating with multiple teams to guide customers in maximizing the Confluent product suite. Applicants should have a strong technical background and excellent relationship management skills.

Formación

• Demonstrated success in a technical Field role with enterprise customers.
• Ability to manage multiple customers and deliver results across initiatives.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly.

Responsabilidades

• Champion and advocate for the customer within Confluent.
• Identify customer technical objections and strategies to address.
• Proactively support customers through technical lifecycle activities.

Conocimientos

Excellent communication and presentation skills

Customer-centric attitude

Project and priority management skills

Complex problem-solving

Relationship management skills

Hands-on knowledge of cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Solid understanding of cloud networking and security technologies

Fluent German language skills

Herramientas

Apache Flink

Apache Kafka

Java

Python

Go

Linux

Descripción del empleo

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.

Confluent is searching for a Customer Success Technical Architect (CSTA) to act as a trusted technical advisor and advocate to work with our customers across EMEA including the DACH region so fluent German speaking language skills are required. The primary objective of this role is to ensure the success, retention & expansion of our customers by providing technical guidance, including best practices, for the Confluent product suite. You will partner with others in Customer Solutions as well as cross‑functional divisions such as Sales, Product Management and Engineering to help our customers accelerate time to value, maximize product consumption and achieve their overall business objectives.

The CSTA role is both deeply technical and commercial in nature. You will leverage a technical background (e.g. AppDev, SysAdmin, Distributed Computing) to advise customers on their architectures, including patterns & strategies for operating and maturing their Confluent subscription. You will also utilize relationship management skills & industry experience to guide the customer on how they can best achieve their business goals and value‑based outcomes via their Confluent investment.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to build broad experience with Kafka, Flink and Confluent IP as well as gain an understanding of complementary and competitive technologies. You will work with a variety of organizations ranging from new start‑ups to large enterprise customers. Throughout these interactions, you will build strong relationships, ensure exemplary delivery standards, and have a lot of fun helping our customers build state‑of‑the‑art data streaming platforms!

What You Will Do:

• Champion and advocate for the customer within Confluent. You will be the technical voice of the customer and will leverage learned technical insights & perspective while coordinating between Confluent Sales, Product, Services, Support and Training teams to drive technical success.
• Identify customer technical objections and develop strategies to address those blockers to adoption.
• Proactively support customers through technical lifecycle activities such as architecture planning, cluster & security design, monitoring & automation; review & provide guidance on upgrade or migration plans, platform & application hardening ideas and high availability design.
• Guide customers up the data streaming maturity curve through recommendations on advanced technical topics (e.g. data mesh, stream processing, utilization optimization & performance tuning).
• Develop and present periodic customer reviews, including analysis of technical health and operational performance, to Confluent senior management.
• Document and transfer knowledge to customers and internal teams. This assists customers in advancing their knowledge & abilities on their own, while also helping Technical Support Engineers and Professional Services teams better serve your customers.
• Engineers and Professional Services teams better serve your customers.
• Leverage knowledge of your customer environments and use cases to influence the roadmap of Confluent products.
• When necessary, roll up your sleeves and dig in to help address customer issues alongside Confluent Technical Support Engineers and Core Engineering.

What You Will Bring:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, customer‑centric attitude, ability to deal with critical customer situations
• Strong service delivery, time, project and priority management skills. Experience in project financial fundamentals
• Love for work in a fast growing and dynamic environment and ability to keep pace with constant change
• Demonstrated success in a technical Field role for a product / SaaS company with enterprise customers
• Passion for working on complex technical problems, with a strong understanding of modern infrastructure and streaming technologies; self‑starter who loves a fast‑paced environment
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills and an ability to concisely explain tricky issues and complex solutions to a variety of personas
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple customers at a time while paying strict attention to detail and delivering results across multiple initiatives such as driving expansion, customer satisfaction, feature adoption and retention
• Collaborative spirit, outstanding consulting & relationship management skills and ability to rapidly switch context
• Hands on knowledge of one or more key cloud vendors (AWS, GCP and Azure)
• Solid understanding of cloud networking and security technologies (e.g. VPC, Private Link, Private Service Connect, TLS/SSL, SASL, Kerberos, etc.)
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly, as well as a strong interest in doing so!
• Fluent German language skills

What Gives You an Edge:

• https://www.confluent.io/certification/
• Experience with Apache Flink
• Experience helping customers build distributed systems or streaming solutions that use Apache Kafka alongside technologies such as Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.
• Experience prototyping and analyzing code for client solutions in multiple languages (e.g. Java, Python, Go, etc.)
• Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting
• Experience with operating Linux, you know how to configure, tune and troubleshoot both RedHat & Debian based distributions

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.