Cloud & Kafka Solutions Architect (Advisory)

International Business Machines Corporation; City of Westminster; Sur place; GBP 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

IBM Global Sales invites a Solutions Architect to own the technical success of Confluent engagements, crafting architectures, delivery backlogs, and guiding implementation with advisory-level insights across Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform.

The role demands deep Kafka/Confluent experience and distributed-systems expertise, with the ability to communicate complex designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders across cloud and on-prem environments.

Qualifications

• Experience in architecture or consulting focused on distributed systems and data streaming.
• Deep Kafka/Confluent experience across design, operations and migration.
• Proven expertise in system and data-flow design with secure configuration, encryption and monitoring.

Responsabilités

• Act as a Cloud CC and Confluent Platform expert.
• Conduct discovery, design, and architecture sessions with customers.
• Define project scope, delivery plans, and backlogs aligned to customer objectives.
• Provide advisory-level best practices for live deployments.
• Perform cluster health assessments and configuration reviews.
• Offer guidance on Kafka best practices and operational efficiency.
• Advise on security, monitoring, infrastructure, patching, and configuration management.

Connaissances

Distributed systems

Data streaming

Kafka/Confluent

System design

Security & RBAC

Outils

Kafka

Flink

ksqlDB

RBAC

Encryption

Description du poste

IBM Global Sales invites a Solutions Architect to own the technical success of Confluent engagements, crafting architectures, delivery backlogs, and guiding implementation with advisory-level insights across Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform.

The role demands deep Kafka/Confluent experience and distributed-systems expertise, with the ability to communicate complex designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders across cloud and on-prem environments.